Friday, January 30, 2026
Saturday, January 10, 2026
That is love...#poetry
When you aren't afraid
to have unshakable belief in yourself
that is love
When you aren't ashamed to adorn your style, your
personalities
Even if they are unusual, old-fashioned
that is love
When you embrace both your sorrows and joys
your collection of hurts, your boxes of thoughts
with gentle hands
that is love
When you find yourself jostled and falling into a dark place
And still know, that all you need to bounce back
is to sit by yourself and sip a cup of coffee
that is love
When you can listen to the symphonies of your heart
and trust them to decide the rhythm and the melody of your
life
that is love
At nights, when you gaze up at the stars
And see your name written in their glitter
that is love
When you dive into the ocean of yourself
and discover something that won't abandon you ever
that wwould stand by you for ever and ever
that is love
When you spend endless hours
programming deprogramming your mind, like a cosmic engineer
Because you will always choose the best for yourself
that is love
When life hurts you, or people
and you decide to walk away, because you understand that you
can only love people, you can't save them
that iis love
When times get tough and situations harsh
but you keep going, you don't quit
because you know your greatness
that is love
When it gets too noisy and swarms of echoes invade your peace
when ghosts of people from your past try to disrupt your
innate joy
and you continue to look within your heart
shining your light
that is love
When you set yourself absolutely free, let your crazy,
poetic self just be
when you aren't scared to dance like nobody's watching
that is love
When shadows tap on your shoulders trying to stop you
and you look in their face, smile and keep walking
that is love
When you aren't afraid to be afraid
yet you dwell in fearlessness
that is love
When you know that your mind can make you sick
and still have faith in the power and wisdom of your heart
that is love
When you invite your fears, your griefs, your worries and
shames and pains
and cradle them and kiss their tears
not shoo them away
that is love
When the pages of your notebooks rumble and burst with the
bizarre stories and fantasies of your creepy life
and yyou let them be
Without trying to
change them
that is love
When you aren't shy to seek out those you can share your
life with, those you can cuddle or laugh with
and still understand that if there's a place where love
springs from
its oonly and only your own heart
that is love
This, the one that you see in the mirror
that is love
you, my friend
is love
yes you....love
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Sunday, January 4, 2026
Amplified Absurdity Technique of Storytelling #writing #storytelling
In the trenches of a secluded world lived a woman who sat by herself, drenched in utter grief after her lover departed to another world to fetch some fish and never returned. She sat by herself, missing him. From day till night, she sat soaked in melancholy, waiting for him, his face swimming before her eyes.
When twilight overshadowed the sunlight, she sat in
her garden gazing at the moon, thinking that he too would be gazing at it,
remembering her. With the coming of morning sunlight, she pulled out her diary
and spent her day writing poems of loss, depression, grief, melancholy, and
yearning.
Will he ever return and meet her? The question constantly hovered
above her head. As time went by and she couldn’t hold back her longing, she
started talking to the trees, to the birds, even to the winds. She would tell
the wind to go and see whether he was on his way to her. She would ask the Sun
whether she could see her lover in another world. She would tell the trees to
rustle so fiercely that the scent of their leaves rushed through the sky and
reached him.
At night, she would whisper to the stars, telling them secrets
only he knew about her, telling them about the stories and fantasies she shared
with him before he departed to another world. Why he departed, she didn’t know.
Years passed. He didn’t return. The books in her home were overflowing with
words she felt pulsing in her heart when she missed him.
And then, one day, someone came to her house and
rang the doorbell. She opened the door. Standing there was the Mad Hatter with
a bottle of coke, a packet of potato chips, and a box of novels.
She grabbed
the bottle, guzzled down the coke, ripped the packet, wolfed down the chips,
snatched the box, and flanked shut the door to slip inside her blanket and read
all the novels.
In the words
of non-writers, this story would probably come under the category of bad jokes
or gross humor. But for writers, this can be a fabulous technique to add some
spice to their piece of writing.
The
technique is “Amplified Absurdity Technique.” As the name suggests, it presents
a piece of writing or a narrative in a way that depicts the absurdity of human
life in an amplified manner.
In contrast
to Edgar Allan Poe’s Single Effect Theory I explained in the earlier video that
is based on spinning the entire story based on one, singular emotion, the
Amplified Absurdity Technique involves an abrupt, sudden break or jump in the
initial emotion, often catching the reader by surprise.
When writing
a piece with this technique, the goal is to maintain the Single Effect right
until the final line or the ending, and then jolting the reader or the viewer
into an abrupt twist that is trivial, pathetic, darkly ironic, or grossly
humorous. The idea is to twist the initial emotion into an absurdity so instead
of following its typical loop of neurons, it takes an absurd turn and forms a
new neural pathway. Right when the initial emotion is at its peak, the twist
sends the viewer or the reader into a jaw-dropping burst of dissonance.
The
technique is based on the fundamental nature of human mind. Human mind is not a
solid block. It is a malleable entity, just like clay. Just as a jeweller uses
raw gold or silver to craft a variety of jewels, earrings, bangles, and
necklaces, the mind can be shifted or changed according to what your
intelligence wants, in a given moment. While Poe’s Single Effect Theory
re-enforces a particular emotion and amplifies it to the peak, the Amplified
Absurdity Technique drops the entire amplified cloud of emotion with a splash
of humor, irony, or an eye-opening sense of life’s weirdness.
It magnifies
the psychological conditioning or programming in the person’s mind, and then suddenly
shatters it with violation of expectation by inserting an unexpected absurdity
in the path of the initial emotion. For the writer or the storyteller,
Amplified Absurdity is also cathartic and mind-bending, as it literally enables
them to express a difficult emotion and finally shift it.
The concept can also be related to H.P. Lovecraft’s ideas of “Horror of the Mundane,” or the “Cosmic Horror,” that work on seeing the ridiculous in the sublime and the sublime in the ridiculous. Lovecraft famously re-instated through his work that human concerns are irrelevant to the vast, indifferent universe.
The Amplified
Absurdity technique helps the writer and the reader to embrace a difficult
emotion and right when the emotion is amplified to its peak, then introduce a
dissonance spike by creating a sudden, jarring jump in the emotion. From dread
to humor, for instance. It’s just like a high-speed car taking an abrupt turn.
The concept
is just like the character of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, whose
stories nobody believes but they make people feel good and cheerful. Amplified
Absurdity, this concept relies on the fact that the state of human mind can be
changed with a story that is absolutely weird, absurd, or illogical. And hence,
it can be a powerful tool, not just for writing and storytelling, but also for
self-reflection.
In the above
story, the technique amplifies the emotion of grief to its peak, ultimately
leading it into a sharp drop to advertisement-style humor and therefore,
cunningly twisting its pathway.
This
technique can also be observed in a scene in the Bollywood movie 3 Idiots.
To delve
deeper into the science behind how this Amplified Absurdity Technique works,
think of a cute white rabbit dressed in a clothing that makes it look like a
frightening fire-spitting dragon. You make the reader “believe” in the terror
of the dragon and right when they are frightened to the peak, you violate their
expectation and unmask the dragon to reveal the rabbit. First of all, this
twist creates an incongruity, a cognitive dissonance, a defamiliarization, a
dopamine spike. It disrupts the regular rhythm of thinking and bends it to
generate a new thought pattern in the brain. By introducing an absurd element,
the writer forces the reader and themselves to feel a difficult emotion to a
heightened intensity and then release it and feel something different.
The
technique is a masterful exploitation of the mind’s basic nature to shift the
current state of mind, in a cathartic or a positive manner.
The Neural Science of Amplified Absurdity Technique
This is how the Amplified Absurdity Technique works in the brain. At first, the target emotion is amplified to peak intensity with consistent repetition of high-stake elements and imagery. As the emotion reaches it peak, it activates the Amygdala, the part of the brain that deals with processing emotions.
The amygdala signals
the other department in the brain called the hypothalamus. Hypothalamus is
responsible for triggering a fight-or-flight response, which floods the
person’s body with adrenaline or stress hormones.
Sensing the
commotion in hypothalamus, another two parts of the brain get activated. A part
called the Temporal Parietal Junction (TPJ) registers the abrupt shock, the
sudden introduction of absurdity, or the surprising break in the expectation.
Another
part, called the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC), starts processing the
“conflict” generated in the brain as a result of violated expectation, the
conflict between the predicted outcome and reality. The extreme mismatch then
activates the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC), a part that deals with flexible thinking.
The incongruity breaks the brain’s meaning management model and jolts it into
existential meaninglessness, which can sometimes be cathartic and mind-changing.
Friday, January 2, 2026
This life....Happy New Year Song #poetry
This life, is a dream
A dream within a dream within a dream
A fleeting glimpse of the rainbow we call as “our world”
This life, is a labyrinth
A labyrinth spun intricately with stories
Stories we tell ourselves, stories we hear from others
Stories we believe in, stories we refuse to believe
This life, is a puzzle
Piece after piece after piece
we assemble it in time
only to watch them scatter again
This life, is a song
A meticulous composition of rhythms and sounds
A bittersweet symphony of pleasures and pains
Woo! Wheesh! Pff! Huh! Ummm! No! Yoohoo! Yay! Oh no!
This life, is an overcoming
Overcoming of yourself
Of who you thought you were, of what you thought you needed
This life, is also letting go
Letting go of what’s already gone
Letting go of what pulls you away from what is
This life, is also a becoming
The becoming of who you already are
The becoming of who you are designed to be
This life, is a process
The process of rise and fall
The process of high and low
This life, is a book
The big book of years
Years come, years go
But in the end, they leave
Stories, stories of horror and stories of romance
Stories of tragedy and stories of mystery
This life, is a dream
And as this year comes to a close
Make sure you recycle your old dream
And create new ones
It’s the time to slow down, to reflect, and release
So you can start anew, with a new dream, a greater dream
Because, even though life is a dream
A dream within a dream within a dream
You are the one who choose what to dream
This life, is a dream
But what a dream!
Happy New Year!
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