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