If you think of how many things can happen to the mind using the English language as a tool, if you don't mind think this -
It can be boggled, as in mindboggling;
It can be blown, as in mindblowing;
It can be lessened, or can be lessnessed, as in mindless (act of writing this) or mindlessness (as in without purpose as this blog);
It can be altered, as in through use of certain prohibited or non prohibited substance use in mindnumbing proportions;
It can be used to 'mind the gap' (between available faculty and reality);
It can be used to 'mind the language' itself (this very language that can twist something beyond recognition);
Ultimately coercing you to ask not what you can do to rid yourself of this mindless nonsense but how you can make matters better if you think of it as matter over mind?
Does it matter? Do you mind?
On an informal mission to read one book a week as long as the eyes allow for such ambition. Fiction or non is not important as long as it entertains and /or educates. To that end the past few weeks have brought a bounty in the form of some wonderful and then not so engaging literature. Among the notables are - Non fiction category: 1. Good arguments by Bo Seo (how to handle a dispute or debate the most efficient way possible) 2. Genesis by Eric Schmidt (and former US Secy of State Henry Kissinger, who recently passed) - how AI might affect our lives as we know it 3. One in a billion - Zarna Garg (an autobiographical look at an Indian born American woman with a bindi narrated in a standup format - yes it is at times cliched but still funny) Fiction: 1. Personal by Lee Child (a vigilante story with Jack Reacher the giant, nomad protagonist of Child's novels goes hunting for a sniper) 2. Ramayana unraveled by Ami Ganatra (she might disagree about it being a work of fiction but oh wel...
With Rajanikant or Quick Gun Murugan around, you also need to be mindful of the fact that they are watching you, ...MIND it!
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