Taking Control of the Third Eye

“You only see what your eyes want to see”…Madonna sure made a fortune with this lexis, but my interpretation takes off into a different genre of reality.

Do you really need your eyes to see what you want to see? Give it a thought!

You definitely don’t need eyeballs to be a visionary, or to foresee, or to dig out an insight. All you need here is a large chewed chewing gum looking thing in your head & the job’s done!

Your eyes just familiarize you with the unknown or recognize you to the known, but surely the story ends there. Rest is taken care by Mr. Brain himself.

Well, this write up is not to boost the morale of the visually deprived friends on the holy planet, but rather to boost their lives.

Millions of visually impaired people around the world are living a new life everyday, but are not familiar with it. To them, a rainbow in the sky is just as black as the m&m’s in their pockets.

So, here goes my Idea for the Innovation of Tomorrow:

Before you start with the idea, I would like you to close your eyes & try seeing the world. And surprisingly, I’m sure you’ll see quite a lot…with something called the mind’s eye.

What I would like to bring to the table, is just a pair of glasses for the visually deprived friends.And I’m not talking about the ones that they are already attaching to themselves with regret.

All visually impaired individuals aren’t lucky enough to carryout transplants due to medical complexities & limitations. But let’s see beyond the obvious…

I propose the magic of Virtual Reality. VR is a simulated environment or a computer generated pseudo-3D interactive technology which provides the user with a feeling that he or she is physically present in a computer-generated world.

And a world that’s as tailor-made as our bona fide lives.

These VR glasses will have camera-sensors that can detect the scope of sight of the person at that very moment, & transmit these motion pictures back to the mind. Therefore, his mind displays to him, what he might have seen with his own eyes!

The concept is based on the principle of Imagination Broadcasting. If we can crack the code to display what we imagine or dream, then the process can definitely work vice versa. In the sense; that what we see with our eyeballs, can actually be transmitted to the mind's eye.

And for people who are deprived of both the visual & hearing senses, especially since birth, these VR glasses will be accompanied by voice & sound detectors that will recognize each voice & sound, via the built-in or stored sounds/voices in the artificial memory.

Not only that, our friends will actually have an edge over us ordinary people. With applications like GPS, internet, camera, live recording, video gaming & movie viewing installed…they’ll have the liberty to disconnect from the alien world, & spend time with just themselves…wandering in their visual thoughts, or on the neighbourhood streets…all by their own selves!

Well, what I see for them in 2050, sitting on this crease of 2009; is a world that shows no compromise to any individual…at least when it comes to the nitty-gritty.

Rest is how they see their destiny.

- Neo

Khoaahish...

Ek bhari thandee aanh ki khoaahish...

Bina wajey ke uss ek thahake ki khoaahish...

Mushtaaqi mein har baar apni chappal bhool jaane ki khoaahish...

Dopahar ki dhoop mein yaar ke galiyare mein phir uss hungame ki khoaahish...

Ammi ke har niwale ke uss ek hi zaike ki khoaahish...

Abba ki daant mein chupi uss naseehat ko samajh jaane ki khoaahish...

Anjaane mein har baar sirf sach bol jaane ki khoaahish...

Mujhse lagi har ummeed ke mukkammal hone jaane ki khoaahish...

Khud se phir ek baar takra jaane ki khoaahish...

aaj phir ek khoaahish karne ki khoaahish hai...

- Neo

When You’re Still Waiting For Life!

Here I am stuck in the middle of nowhere…

Trying hard to guess where I’ve reached… even started off or not!

Things get a little more kinda catchy when important pieces of your life are prefixed by twists, & the not so important ones are taking the bumpy serpentine ride.

As sloppy as Bugs Bunny on 'grass'…I was spending my days as if life was forever.

Well, 05th August 2004, is when I lost the cushion in my life. Pa. The first twist that came when we thought that things had just started to settle.

Really don’t remember or maybe don’t want to remember how it felt while I was holding on to his last glimpses. Just wished life had an undo button, but then, privileges aren’t meant to last for long.

And then, at 17 years of age, I understood that boy; you’re class bunking days are over.

Within half a year, could just manage to get back on the road, but this time ‘I’ was driving & learning how to drive at the same time.

Sometime from then, was wrapping up college & I realized that cupid had struck me. My best pal became my best pal once again…this time for life!

Life became easy once again ;-)

And to my surprise, I couldn’t try hard but still managed His attention to navigate!

20 January, 2006. The day I was holding my first Letter of Appointment, & that too having to complete one more semester to graduate.

Yippie! Was all I said then, coz I knew Pa was happy too.

But again, the ‘T’ letter word hadn’t been used for too long now.

Mummy had a lil’ different plan for her son…Twist No.02 ma friends.

It took some time & a decent salary package to make her realize that good decision making can be done before 46 as well.

Ok…things were moving just fine. We both enrolled ourselves with a premier B-School via Executive Education to strike off our parent’s liabilities one by one.

Today, life’s still moving just fine. But as English language describes, even ‘fine’ has three versions. Fine. Finer. Finest.

My girl & I have played the same script of life…just a little here & there.

And the ‘T’ letter word appeared yet again. Twist No. 03.

A single parent & an ailing patient is what her Pa’s roles are…double role huh! She’s been a good daughter…but now she’s looking for a job.

Wow…life’s unpredictable & this is not news!

Now, as far as I go…I’m in the same company for over 3.5 years now & my desperation for a raise is evident even on the most short lived expression of my face.

Well, I know folks that this is an abrupt ending but, the essence of it is that what you call life is just the next level. You are always at the penultimate stage shouting your lungs out to reach to the next level. And when you do reach there, you see life unfulfilled again. You find yourself still waiting for life!

So with all this, I’m almost done playing Dan Brown with all the twists in the tales here.

For all of you who invested time reading this…appreciate your patience ;-)


- Neo