Chatting – what an amazing tool to connect yourself to someone you want to. It is one activity which forms the basis of our being. we as humans are constantly in need to connect to someone. Chatting in person has a personal touch to it. Now, Virtual chatting too has become practical means to
share and explore ‘the me’ with ‘the you’. It helps to connect/reconnect with all
our past, present acquaintances, friends, relatives alike. A
random thought brought up by the 'We chat' group interested me in particular – the topic being 'whom would you connect (anyone alive/dead/ fictional) with in a wechat group'. This topic serves a possibility
to explore the imaginative dimensions to connect the me with the
unknown. After a exhaustive search within myself, I came up with those five
souls I would like to connect myself to.
The first soul certainly has to be my baby
daughter. She is seven months old and I am often intrigued by the way she might
be thinking at this particular age. The amusement to know what dwells in her
mind when me and my family talk, play, make funny faces, sounds in front of
her. Does she think of us as a set of entertainers or has got some different
take about it. This thought intrigues me. How does she look at things around her?
How and what is she absorbing amongst the gamut of things she happens to see
each day. It is indeed a blank hard
drive which is going to be fed with data with each passing day. I would
definitely like to bond with this thought matrix of hers.
Second soul has to be my brother, whom I could
never really talk to because he wasn’t there when I was born. Given a chance I would
certainly like to have long and perennial conversations with him. Not having
him around and still wanting to talk to him is the unusual dimension which I would
like to explore in these talks.
Third soul which I would definitely like to
chat and know more about is Chanakya. With the kind of extremely upsetting state
of affairs our country is facing, it would be noteworthy to have a comprehensive
conversation with him to help our countrymen come out of this rut. How much of
his values principles need redefinition in today’s context needs to be
questioned and the strategies to overcome the dilemmas our country is facing. His
take on the contemporary state our politics is, would help to ascertain the right track for our country.
Fourth on my list of people I would love to
have a chat is Pete Sampras. My sporting hero that he is, would definitely like
to have dialogue with him on the game of tennis, how he used to approach his
game, his preparations and much more. An interesting chat this would be surely
for me, for the kind of humility, grace, dignity he displayed in his entire sporting
career.
Lastly I would want to have prolonged chat with
is the musical maestro Mr A.R Rahman. A discourse with this genius would surely
be enlightening for me. What amazes me about his work is the detailing of music
which is being worked out in his songs. As it is said that 'God lies in the details' , and it is in this detailing of his work, that i feel a divine intervention. His work is like a fluid medium which
embraces differentiation improvisation and is always ahead of times. A maverick
that he is, would definitely prove to give an insightful dimension to the way
one approaches life. I believe there are immense things to be known and learnt
from this prodigy , the lessons which are hidden
deep within the layers of silence, humility and focus on his work. It is
through these conversations that the true face of this person could be seen.
There could be more to the list of such people
to know more about life- but to shotlist these are the people topping my list
for ‘Dream to chat with you ’.
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