vulnerabilities...

deep down , man seems so vulnerable...appearances can be so deceptive as I have observed time and again....my work has given me the opportunity to interact with "pre-defined" vulnerable cross-sections of society as well as iconic cross-sections such as bollywood, the world of musicians and artistes and so on....confident gestures and postures more often than not were very superficial and elaborate masks for the cyclones of insecurities and vulnerabilities within.

i remember an incident when a well known cine star was upset with a hoarding that had been put up at juhu....adjacent to a hoarding featuring a soon to be introduced debutante....the age difference was obviously there...add to that , in this age of technology, a wrinkle had managed to find its way on the vinyl of the star's forehead...

it was catastrophic for the star...the release of the picture was stalled until the hoarding was "rectified" with an elaborate enrichment with a show of biceps and the like...

dont blame them, we like to keep up our images and feel secure in them...

we also find people taking security in various positionalities, for and against...scratch a bit and you would find no depth...merely a cosmetic replacement of conceptual adherences, nothing more... deep down, the same vulnerabilities, the same insecurities; infact , very often more pronounced as the additional burden of elaborate masking is involved...

man may fight superstition outside, but continues to be superstitious; only the format of expression changes....

changing activities we indulge in does not make a difference; if we are seeking change, it has to be in our attitudes....

we hate a movie....changing a screen would not help.....the dvd needs to be changed...or shut off...else, we may keep changing the screens and the same script continues....very often the story of our lives.....underlying vulnerabilities and insecurities remain through paradoxically diametric events...

the seeds of our liberation do not depend on the presence or absence of certain activities...they are independent and can flow through activities , whatever they may be...

as an eg.....i have interacted with tribals who are natural in their scanty clothing....i have also seen icons and models seem so awkward in their attempt to live upto their "images" of glamour.....for me , it is not a matter of clothing; that is an aspect of their personal choices..it is rather a q of their comfort in naturalness....artificiality can be so burdensome and self-inhibitive...

some may chose that.....which is fine, if it is in awareness....