The title may make you feel that the blog today would be full of crazy pyrotechniques, right? Well, not really. The superstar super power through quite crazy gestures is not our theme. I have used the signature quote to attract your attention to a very serious issue, in fact. Yes, October 10 happens to be the World Mental Health Day. Hence the famous 'Mind it'.
Currently, stress is Enemy Number One. Stress is due to tensions at workplace, due to troublesome relationships, due to high(tened) expectations. The causes are countless. Depression hence is quite common. Luckily, however, slowly but surely, seeking medical help for such issues is no longer a taboo.
In fact, it is not exactly necessary to visit a mental health specialist as soon as you feel tense. There exist many interesting modules of self-amelioration in our regular practices. Take, for example, the Karwa Chauth fest, which, too, is being observed on October 10. It is so very easy to mock it as a patriarchal practice which, moreover is the h(e)aven of consumerism.
No, I am not glorifying this hoary tradition. Yet I am honest enough to admit that, for many a women, it is, may be, a mode of asserting self, gaining importance in a household where a woman is always merely a role modelled to subsume her. I am not sure about it, but the rituals these days are less religious, and more 'fun'. May be, the wife thinks of herself as a 'heroine', given the cloyingly cute depiction of the fest in Bollywood films!
Yes, I am absolutely against such bollywood-isation of life. Yet, at times, one has a self- doubt. Are inexorable ideological postures taking away moments of mental self-satisfaction for a sizable societal section? Which could be more positive and creative interventions that sensitise sensibly?
Involved are mindscapes, already fragile, already brittle, already near breaking point, given the onslaught of empty 'media'ted modernities that are chaotic, confusing, cluttered in a 'mobile' way?
May be, in the fiftieth year of the Mexico convention that opened up contours of feminism, there should be some self-reflexivity about how to support minds otherwise crashing and crumbling like the landslides in the Himalayan region during the terrorising monsoon?
Answers are not easy. They are necessary though! Hence this write-up to remind everyone of 'mind (dis)orders'
Pratima@The day became still more power-packed as approaching real fast was the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, the winner has dedicated it to Trump! 'Smart' mind-game indeed!!!
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