I moved....I have moved....I think I will keep moving....Sometimes I wonder why I do what I do...Sometimes people wonder why I do what I do...Eventually....in all the thinking and wondering...I realise I have moved ...again ...
It is not that I do not want settlement ... It is not that I do not wish for permanence ...but because I move ... I am unable to define "settlement" or "permanence" in my life.
Till 16 years of age, I moved because my family moved. My dad had a transferable job and he took every new assignment his organisation where he worked for 27 years asked him to move.
So, YES! he moved but he did not move from the organisation where he started his career!
At 16 years of age, I moved out of the security of family-home-mummy's food to a hostel life.
This part of the move was important because it is that phase in your life where you "MOVE" to make a career for yourself ...you "MOVE" to build your own professional identity!
After an under-graduate program which was more of a space and time where mid-way the 3 year program I was already thinking of where I want to move next...while I had a boyfriend completely in love with me who thought I would STAY on to finally "move" in with him...
I was moved by all the love and attention but this is where the "settlement" "permanence" factor set in. At 20 years now! did I want to settle? or do I want to move?
I got out of that dilemma miraculously by getting admission for my post-graduation into an institution which was a life-long dream! When one's dream comes true...nothing can stand in the way not even love! So, I moved.
At the institute, I was moving everyday ! With creative work happening in every corner of that institution, it was impossible for a restless soul like me to have found a small corner and stayed there...I moved from the textile studio to the apparel studio to the furniture studio to product to film...to the auditorium ...the basketball court....OH! there was so much to do .. so much to learn .. so much to listen ...so much see... so much... that I was moving all the time !
We were asked to "move out' of our hostels when the earthquake struck in 2001...We were asked to move to Kutch to volunteer for rehabilitation work... We worked and we were moved by what we saw and what we felt... There was a change.. The HEART moved this time...
Exactly one year later, we were asked to STAY IN and not move out of the campus...this time because a deadly human disaster called communal riots had engulfed the city ! We had to stay in to protect ourselves...but we could see in close proximity how people. groups of people, were moving on the roads with swords, and torches, and guns ready to kill and destroy everything that they thought was the "OTHER" religion..
Two continuous disasters ...of two different natures ...all affecting human life ...moved me in more ways than one ...while at the institute ...while I was still a student ...while I was still being restless and super enthusiastic ...
I found love there too...I found love there twice...(YES! you can find love more than once!)
But, THEY moved ....
So, the solution to the heart break was to move...rather this time post my 3 years again.. with all that I had seen..felt..experienced..found..lost..gave away..
I HAD to move because now I had reached the phase where I was no more a student but a professional and an adult..now it was the time to get out into the world of WORKING PROFESSIONALS...earn a living...build a life ...prove your worth to the world...make your family proud !
I moved to the city of dreams - Mumbai ...
I had arrived...I thought I had arrived...I felt I had arrived......
It is not that I do not want settlement ... It is not that I do not wish for permanence ...but because I move ... I am unable to define "settlement" or "permanence" in my life.
Till 16 years of age, I moved because my family moved. My dad had a transferable job and he took every new assignment his organisation where he worked for 27 years asked him to move.
So, YES! he moved but he did not move from the organisation where he started his career!
At 16 years of age, I moved out of the security of family-home-mummy's food to a hostel life.
This part of the move was important because it is that phase in your life where you "MOVE" to make a career for yourself ...you "MOVE" to build your own professional identity!
After an under-graduate program which was more of a space and time where mid-way the 3 year program I was already thinking of where I want to move next...while I had a boyfriend completely in love with me who thought I would STAY on to finally "move" in with him...
I was moved by all the love and attention but this is where the "settlement" "permanence" factor set in. At 20 years now! did I want to settle? or do I want to move?
I got out of that dilemma miraculously by getting admission for my post-graduation into an institution which was a life-long dream! When one's dream comes true...nothing can stand in the way not even love! So, I moved.
At the institute, I was moving everyday ! With creative work happening in every corner of that institution, it was impossible for a restless soul like me to have found a small corner and stayed there...I moved from the textile studio to the apparel studio to the furniture studio to product to film...to the auditorium ...the basketball court....OH! there was so much to do .. so much to learn .. so much to listen ...so much see... so much... that I was moving all the time !
We were asked to "move out' of our hostels when the earthquake struck in 2001...We were asked to move to Kutch to volunteer for rehabilitation work... We worked and we were moved by what we saw and what we felt... There was a change.. The HEART moved this time...
Exactly one year later, we were asked to STAY IN and not move out of the campus...this time because a deadly human disaster called communal riots had engulfed the city ! We had to stay in to protect ourselves...but we could see in close proximity how people. groups of people, were moving on the roads with swords, and torches, and guns ready to kill and destroy everything that they thought was the "OTHER" religion..
Two continuous disasters ...of two different natures ...all affecting human life ...moved me in more ways than one ...while at the institute ...while I was still a student ...while I was still being restless and super enthusiastic ...
I found love there too...I found love there twice...(YES! you can find love more than once!)
But, THEY moved ....
So, the solution to the heart break was to move...rather this time post my 3 years again.. with all that I had seen..felt..experienced..found..lost..gave away..
I HAD to move because now I had reached the phase where I was no more a student but a professional and an adult..now it was the time to get out into the world of WORKING PROFESSIONALS...earn a living...build a life ...prove your worth to the world...make your family proud !
I moved to the city of dreams - Mumbai ...
I had arrived...I thought I had arrived...I felt I had arrived......
