English Suvichar
you identity is who you show
rather what’s behind your mask
is your civilian self and
you may even have another one
Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you
‘ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were l
eft between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts,
sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later,
you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different,
as if the book had preserved you like a pressed
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one
has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physica
l sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t
stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body,
I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
And you weren’t having any of those
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control,
but other things do fall under the jurisdiction.
I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with,
whom I share my body and life and money and energy with
. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how
I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether
I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words
and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all,
I can choose my thoughts
