Graphic Reflections

A heart beat perhaps best describes being alive and if you ‘look’ at it closely (or symbolically), being alive means facing or experiencing the continuous ups and downs of life

Above is a random set of phrases that I found myself and some people uttering. Nitpicking (looking for small or unimportant faults in others, especially in order to criticize unnecessarily), seems to be a widespread human trait at the base of which, perhaps, lie the delusions of self being superior to other/s and of the world being a perfect place. How much time, energy and very often anger we waste (and sometimes spoil our relationships) over trivial matters is amusing, to say the least.

For sometime now, in our day-to-day conversations, I have been taking note of things some people (myself included) hate. This graphic celebrates all that hatred. Guess it’s very difficult to understand the feeling of hate. Apart from individual likes and dislikes, it probably has something to do with pressures of daily life, bad experiences, personal or professional frustrations or difficulties, unrealistic expectations and a lot else…

This graphic tries to capture the state of preoccupation that so many urban dwellers leading high pressure lives often find themselves in when they try to escape or take a break. Often the preoccupation makes it difficult to simply notice or appreciate your surroundings or environment, or so I felt when I had taken a break from usually hectic work schedule to Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur (above). It took a while and some effort to get out the preoccupations and notice the tremendous variety of foliage, hear the varied bird calls, smell the pure air and get a sense of the place….

Another simple graphic, this one depicting hard work erhaps one of those stages when the road is uphill and one is not sure of the outcome, but hard work is usually rewarding.)

A simple graphic to illustrate the feeling of struggle (the mountain that comes in the way of your reaching home).