No brief description this time, let’s jump straight inside our heads.
What if you get a chance to visit your head, your mind? What itinerary will you prepare for travelling in your mind? Which areas will you touch upon to feel the emotions of joy or pain? Which dominant thought will become your accommodation for the duration of your visit? Think about it!
When you read this article, read it in first person, imagine yourself speaking the lines written below. Of course, there are a number of people who will not relate to what is written in this blog, and I get it. I understand that people travel for different reasons, and your reason to visit your mind could be entirely different than mine or that of other people.
And that’s okay.
So, let’s begin!
Entering the mind
Life is busy these days. Everyone is absorbed so much in their lives that there is no time left to reflect on what is going inside us – in our mind. I’m tired. Tired of thinking constantly about what is happening and what may happen in my life. Sometimes, I’m tired of explaining to myself what exactly I am doing.
So, I decided to go on a trip, alone – a trip inside my head.
I reached a warm region, full of activities happening all around. I saw images of my parents – ah, I’m so concerned about them all the time. I saw my workplace environment, my colleagues, my distant friends who are absorbed in their world too.
This place, which is my mind, looks familiar but I often get lost in it. Even though it appears small, it recollects and stores memories and thoughts of my distant past and even thinks a lot about the future sometimes.
I can see some happy places too, that make me feel that my life is good sometimes.
Stress
As I kept travelling on the highway of my mind, I noticed thumping in my nerves, it felt like a disco inside my head that slowly moves to the temples on my forehead. I’m conscious about finding people, who would truly stand by me in my weak moments, the real people who act like humans and not some robotic AI application.
But everyone is so busy these days and running after one thing or the other. I wonder if people remember me when they hear some song, watch a movie or visit places that remind them of me.
What can I really say?
Life is busy these days
Living life in a million ways
And then, I have some issues with time and my hair that are racing against time to turn grey. Ah, stress!
Remembering the memories and dreams
Do I remember the last time I actually dialed someone’s number and spoke with them? Is it true that all that I know now is to simply write a text and enter send? Most of us even think ten times before sending the send away.
Do I remember the last time my whole family sat together, happily enjoying snacks that my mother made, the last time my parents danced, or the last time I gave yourself a flying kiss in my bathroom mirror?
The ones who can really count those uncountable moments of memories are the lucky ones, the ones with the most treasure.
With sobbing eyes and a throbbing heart, I dived a little deeper in my head.
A space.
Space full of dreams.
Dreams I saw in my childhood, dreams that I want to fulfil, and dreams that I still see. I know that I will be fine and no matter how difficult it may get, I will check up on what’s going on inside my head and resolve things that I can, and accept those which I cannot.
I will be okay, it’s just a matter of time – time that waits for no one. But I’ll try to befriend time and either ask it to slow down or join hands with it to flow with the flow of life.
The mind remembers, almost everything
Even if I forget a lot of things in life, the moment I pause or come across certain moments of Déjà vu, I feel a rush of memories that my mind tells me to remember. It pushes me to visualise my childhood days, when all I stressed about was to prepare for the upcoming math exam, and often not even that.
The ice-cream sticks
The magic tricks
The computer-mouse clicks
The broken house bricks
The running clock ticks
And our family pics.
I often miss my childhood days, but I’m happy to grow up too and experience what life has offered to me.
I understand very well now that without memories I am nothing, we are nothing.
The return journey
Most of the times when we travel to some place, we feel excited for the onward journey but very less excited when we return back after the trip. However, the return journeys from our minds and heads can be enriching.
Some souvenirs from the journey inside our mind can be a bunch of memories, helpful life lessons, motivation, and some self-love.
Now let’s come back and resume to what we were doing.
