Random thoughts of a conflicted mind. #2

Yeah am back again…whatever. So, I’ve been listening to some different off beat music for a while now, some jazz, blues and scores of independent artists. I’ve grown up listening to metal and what not for years; lately I’ve fallen in love with Porcupine Tree. (All over again).

If you haven’t heard their music, you probably haven’t heard good music. Go listen, highly recommended.

Anyway…yeah with the winters already here…the weather is amazing, as a photographers point of view as well as the random point of view. The chill and the isolation are beautiful. And what’s better is if you have nothing to do at early morning 7 am and sit at a chai walah sipping garam garam chai and listening to sweet melodious voice of Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree).

The other day a random out of the blue conversation between a friend and me at the roadside chai walah got me thinking. Maybe it was the overdose of Porcupine Tree or just another passing thought, but in the end I came back to the question…why?

We enter an elevator and stand facing the door. Why?

We will never sit on the footpath next to a beggar, and silently look at people passing by all worked up in their busy lives. Why?

Why are we so scared to click photographs of people on the streets?

Why do we think so much?

We always say “Kaam karna hai, I will study my ass off and want to make money and live a lavish life!” why?

In the end why so many why’s?

I guess it’s just another random thought of a conflicted mind.

Just by the way, here’s a link to one of Porcupine Tree’s song. LISTEN!

Porcupine Tree- The Sound of Muzak

Random thought of a conflicted mind.

Funny. We are brought up in a society which is run by sexually frustrated men, who have no idea how to run the government or how to go about things in the daily life itself. We are constantly told what is right or wrong, what to eat, where to sleep. We are so infuriated when someone point out our flaws that most of us would go to great lengths, to point out theirs or ruin something they have been working on.


Sometimes the most basic outcomes are initiated from something as basic as music. Personally experienced. If it weren't for Iron Maiden, I'd have not heard good music and probably never would have started clicking concerts. 


Life is weird, so are we, who get sucked into its daily cycle. We dream about taking a break and doing something different, but never get around it. Maybe going to a high point in the city, smoking some marijuana would help see things differently. The world is colourful, full of textures, some thing which isn't so negative. But we see what we want to see...the negativity.


We see the things that are going wrong, not the ones that are going right. We see creed and religion, but not the human... funny really.


In the end, am just saying, thoughts of a conflicted mind.