The Haphazard Way Forward

The story of Diogenes, Plato and the cup? That’s a fantastic one Plato was discoursing on his theory of ideas and, pointing to the cups on the table before him, said, "While there are many cups in the world, there is only one 'idea' of a cup, and this cupness precedes the existence of all particular cups." "I can see the cups on the table," said Diogenes, "but I can't see the 'cupness'". "That's because you have the eyes to see the cup," said Plato, "but", tapping his head with his forefinger, "you don't have the intellect with which to comprehend 'cupness'." Diogenes walked up to the table, examined a cup, and, looking inside, asked, "Is it empty?" Plato nodded. "Where is the 'emptiness' which precedes this empty cup?" asked Diogenes. Plato allowed himself a few moments to collect his thoughts, but Diogenes reached over and, tapping Plato's head with his fi...

Have you ever had a big change in your life? Like, I don't want to exaggerate, but I have. I'm not pretending to have changed my identity and country, but yeah. Not a huge shift as half the people in the world go through, but it was pretty big for me. I don't know if it was for the good or bad, but I'm guessing it was a good change for me. I grew more confident, realized how the world works, even though I may have been a bit dumb, and most importantly, grew mature with the change. For those of you who don't know me, (I mean, why am I even pretending people are reading my blog, I don't know. But I have just been reading Rick Riordon, so you can expect a bit of his style in this) I am Sandhya, as you may have understood from my domain name. I used to live in Bangalore before I shifted to a place on the coast of Karnataka. A huge flex. Beautiful scenery. Calm atmosphere, though humid as hell. Good food, good life (And no, I'm not advertising Nestle here). About...