Blog's Classical Music Piece: Yellow river Piano concertoThis was a random one off the playlist.

  

As I grow older, I realize I have become more cynical. I mean, this is the natural order of things. You go from a wide-eyed kid to a jaded alcoholic over the 4 years of high school (not that I'm an alcoholic; that stuff is bad for you). 

   

How it feels showing up to school day after day

Especially after COVID, which was one and a half straight years of playing Minecraft with friends. Of course, going to school every day, doing homework, and talking to other humans makes me hate the world.

But I think I am reaching a turning point in my life where I am sort of reconnecting with some of the things that a child Muku would do. To elaborate on this, there are a bunch of stories, traditions, and prayers that come along with the Hindu faith that, when I was an elementary schooler, I found to be the coolest things ever. Learning about these things was like being inducted into a secret society of sorcerers (never mind that 1 billion people practice the faith). There was something magical about learning prayers in the oldest language in the world and listening to stories about demons and gods trying to become immortal.

one of my goats Karna

As I changed from kid Muku to teenage Muku (I don't want to say evolved), I probably thought I was getting smarter, and I was getting book smarter, but I didn't have that magic anymore. The society around me was getting robotic, waking up for school, doing school, doing homework, going to sleep, and repeat. While there are fleeting moments of pleasure in this loop, I could never really find joy; joy is where happiness is created.


Now I'm trying to go back to kid Muku because I think he had it right. Kid Muku was filled with creativity, imagination, and a sense of wonder, which is what I need right now.

I think Yoda had it right when he said, "Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is."







  

  


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