On reading Dinakaran’s blog ‘ Losing a friend, virtually ’ I started thinking about the word virtual, its implications, utility or otherwise in relationship, etc. Here are some of them that occurred inside my ‘virtual’ chatter box:

As we tend to move with people based on the images we have about them, can it be termed that all our relationship has a tinge of virtual quality?

With a brain mechanism that is capable of remembering everything that makes an impact on one’s ego, is it at all possible to relate in a real way? Is it possible for the human mind to look at things totally afresh each time? Can it be called a virtuous living if one learns the art of seeing things afresh?

Is it possible for man to escape knowledge? Is there a place in life to see things afresh without the sediment of memory?

What is the state of mind that awes at a mountain, a beautiful face, the roaring sea, enthralling music, and forgets itself for a second? Can that state be termed as a state of ‘real’ relationship?

Since, at one point in time or other, everyone experiences a wonderstruck state, can it be concluded that there is definitely a place for seeing things afresh, as in nature nothing seems to be out of place mostly?

Tail piece: A poem (?) I wrote two years ago:

Dancing leaves with sublime innocence

Against the hot and piercing Sun

Without a single sign of resistance

With withering leaves, the dance is on amid silence

Perhaps to show us the Life’s core truth

That Death is Life’s shadow in all its presence

Published on June 5, 2013