IdeologyInk: Where Words Paint Worlds

Scene 1: You opened your laptop 💻 to work on a project. Within just a few minutes, your hands instinctively reached for your phone 📱. You unlocked it, logged onto a  social media platform , and began scrolling through the content 📲 before suddenly realizing what had happened! Scene 2: While waiting for the lift, you instinctively reached into your pocket and took out your phone 📱. You began to scroll through the screen aimlessly, but no notifications appeared 📭. This went on until you arrived at your destination 🚪. Did these two scenes sound familiar? 🤔 Well, this is not a bad habit, but the cause of modern malaise known as 🌀 " BRAIN ROT " - Oxford's Word of the Year for 2024 .  So, if you, too, are feeling that your  attention span  has shattered 😩, have a foggy memory 🧠, and the thought of reading a book daunts you 📚, then you are not alone here. This has become a problem of millions - An epidemic of  Brain Rot ! 🥴 The Brain Rot :  It is...

My dear  Universe , the first time I knew you was when you were mentioned on the pages of science books 📚. Back then, I was too young to fathom who you were, what you were, or how you existed! I was conventionally programmed in my mind that you were some place in the sky 🌌, and that you contained many planets 🌍, stars ✨, and galaxies , and my Earth was one of them. Period! That's it? Naah, I wasn't fascinated at all. Why would I be? I had no business with you. You were in the sky and I was down here.  For me, you were just an intangible, abstract place in the space that I barely cared to stare at night. 🌌 Often, I would smile at falling stars 🌠, wander my eyes across your wholesome blackness, and seldom would I force myself to locate the farthest planet . 🌍 But on most occasions, you lulled me to sleep. 😴 Poor me! However, some part of you always touched me tenderly, but I was only young enough to feel you, and not to know you. 🌟  So, what's the damn connecti...

What do you think is the difference between these two phrases: How much is enough money? and How much money is enough? You might wonder what a stupid question(s) this is, both are the same. Well, grammatically both might look the same but perspectively there is a difference. Earlier is the world's view which dictates how much is enough money to buy this car or that car, whereas later relates to the individual standpoint which simplifies how much money is enough to buy just a car, and not this car or that car (Since this car could be a Swift while that car could be a Ferrari ).   Image credit: AI-generated image by Gemini- Google How Much Is Enough Money | The Fine Line Between Happiness and Greed!  For example, suppose you are a married couple with no kids and want to buy a house. In that case, the world will tell you how much is enough money to own a 1 BHK , 2 BHK , 3 BHK or a villa , but if you knew how much money is enough to buy just a house, and not 3 BHK or 4 B...

પ્રકરણ ૯: નવ વર્ષ પૂર્વે | રાત્રિની શોધમાં   ૨૭ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૦૩, ગુરુવાર નિશાએ સ્વપ્નેય ન વિચારેલ કે પવન, કે જે તેને ૯ વર્ષ પૂર્વે છોડીને જતો રહ્યો હતો તેજ તેના માટે એક પત્ર છોડી જશે! કદાચ પ્રણય જ એટલો પ્રમાણિક અને નિષ્ઠાવાન હતો કે દગો મળેલ નિશા હજુ દગાખોરને ઝંખી રહી હતી અને ગુનેગાર માફી. સત્ય છે કે પ્રભુ સત્યના પારખા લે છે, અને માટે જ આજે ૯ વર્ષ બાદ દગાબાજ પવન એક કાગળ થકી તેની પ્રેયશીને તેની નિર્દોષતાનું પ્રમાણ આપવા જઈ રહ્યો હતો, અને ઘાયલ નિશા પણ, અધીરી થઈને આ દગાબાજ નો પક્ષ લઈ તેનેજ નિર્દોષ ઠેરવવાની તાલાવેલીમાં લાગી હોય એમ કાગળમાં લખેલ એક એક શબ્દને તેની ધ્રુજતી આંગળીઓ દ્વારા સ્પર્શી રહી હતી, જાણે કે તે અક્ષરો નહી પણ ખુદ પવન જ હોય. પીડિત હૃદયનું ઊંડાણ જાણે કે બંડ પોકારી રહ્યું હતું, કેહતું હતું કે આ પત્ર સાક્ષી છે કે તેનો પ્રેયસ દગાબાજ ન હતો, આજે પણ તે આ રાત્રિને તેની બહોપાશમાં ચપોચપ સાચવીને બઠો હતો.  Image credit: AI generated by Co-pilot designer software of Microsoft "કેમ છે મારી રાત્રિ?" પવનના આ પ્રારંભિક સંબોધને જ નિશાને હસતા હસતા રોવડાવી દીધી; આંખો એટલીતો ભીની થઇ ગઈ...

Minimalism , huh! Does the word sound familiar to you? Many will say "No," and some might say "Hmm, kinda, heard something like that." I myself only recently learned about the concept of Minimalism , and let me tell you what! I was surprised! I was almost captivated by this Minimalism philosophy . It was so simple, genuine, and non-hypocritical that it really made me question my understanding of life, and my ability to let go of things I owned, possessions, and material things I had accumulated with my hard-earned money and time.         Image credit @ Copilot AI software by Microsoft (A Guide to Minimalism) A Guide to Minimalism | What to Keep and What to Let Go   Last weekend, just like any other weekend, I was sincerely exploiting my night hours to gorb on to my OTT content quota. While browsing for the best, I was scrolling across the endless pages of maybe one, no, two... no, no, three... or maybe four OTT platforms ! But damn! I was miserably los...