Thoughton’s column

November 7, 2008

Thoughton has a million thoughts and ideas. Some surface. Others he says, he will take with him to the grave. His idea of life is to keep it simple, as simple as it can be kept. It relieves him of unnecessary tasks and painful expectations. ‘Lazy’ could be another word, but his firm belief in that one theory makes his world go round and more importantly, keeps him content. Most of the stuff that surface are just random ramblings. He hardly ever sleeps. One could very easily catch him in the middle of the night working hard to weave a flimsy thread of fantastic dreams. As a young boy, he spent many hours on treetops, contemplating and sometimes simply marveling at the beauty that surrounded him. He was a sucker for nature, her beauty drew him irresistibly! He was a loser in school, never achieving or ever wanting to achieve anything at all. For him, the greatest of lessons and all that he wanted to know were always unfolding every minute outside the confines of the classrooms. People thought he was weird and completely deranged. And until his 15^th year, he believed them to be true. Rejection being too painful a price to pay, he shut himself down. Freedom lost, expression numbed, he wandered aimlessly in search of something. It cost him many years of hatred and suffering and got the worst out of him from the worst years of his life. But he was to realise soon that he was one of a kind!! The thoughts that spun inside him and the colours that spilled out onto sheets may not have found much praise, but it got him his own little space. He soon understood that everybody around him were just as unique as he was, and all that he had to do was to just let everything and everybody be…. Just as he could be, and do whatever he wanted to- write for the love of it, paint for the joy of it and sing for the beauty of it, or do whatever for the sake of it. Because after all, he says, even the most brilliant of ideas will one day only get executed, for the spirit of expression to fly out free…

“I have no choice but to live with his ideas for he lives inside me. Meet Thoughton, my brilliant brain that God half blessed me with before he threw me down to serve my term on earth for I know not how long.. Thoughton had always existed, but it was me who had ignored him all this while. But now that I have found him, I am immensely happy. Because like never before, I have a certain sense of joy and peace and also hope that I have a new companion to help me discover a great deal more about my ‘self’….