Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "experience"

Age doesn’t make you wise, curiosity does.
Intellect doesn’t make you curious, growth does.
Experience doesn’t make you grow, expansion does.
Travel doesn’t make you expand, self-correction does.
Cynicism doesn’t help correction, awareness does.
Books don’t make you aware, accountability does.
Law cannot make you accountable, humanity does.
Appearance doesn’t make you human, acceptance does.
Wokeness doesn’t make you accepting, character does.
Clothes don’t make character, conduct does.
Etiquettes don’t define conduct, goodness does.
Tradition doesn’t make you good, oneness does.
Oneness is the mother of all civilized behavior.
Without oneness we’re ever headed for disaster.

If your perception doesn’t evolve with time,
It’s not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.

In one of my early works I called America,
“a great country, built by great people,”
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.

I once naively asked to ‘appreciate the soldiers’,
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, “military is legal terrorism.”

Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.

It’s a funny world we live in,

When we are young, we pretend to be old.
When we are old, we pretend to be young.
When we are home, we want to see the world.
When on the road, we want to get home.

We are never happy at the moment,
we like to admire the idea of happiness.
We like to worship it from afar,
real happiness is fraught with troubles.