Husain Journal

Do you also have this feeling? Most of the time I feel that I’m not utilising my time and energies as best as I can to rev up my progress. This feeling twists my stomach in discontent, even though most of the times I remain busy. I mean, I don’t waste my time in Facebook, or in watching any mind-numbing web series. Maybe it happens with you, too. You might think of decluttering your life by crossing off secondary things (switching off phones, turning off the Internet, packing off television and so on.) But even when you do it, you feel that there’s a void – something which is sucking your productive time like a leech. Despite your hectic timetable, you feel that you’re not making progress on your core goals. When you look 6 months back, you get a view that you’re still where you were then. And then it gets downright hateful to swallow this shitty lump of guilt, right? If like most people, this situation fits on you, then here’re a few measures you can take up: Ask

I’m reading Miss Anne Sullivan’s letters, which she wrote to her former warden of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Miss Sullivan has given an account of the progress that her deaf and blind pupil Helen Keller made as she taught her. It never appeared to me that she ever got in a hurry to teach her things, or that she overthought about the complexity of the task handed to her. She went slow. She took one thing at a time, and once it was done, she moved on to the other. Teaching a deaf and blind child isn’t easy. Many would say that it’s downright impossible. But Miss Sullivan didn’t let negative stories play in her mind, and she continued to do the little that she could at that given time. If I had been in her place, I might have thought and thought about the disparity between human beings. Maybe I would have thought that fortune didn’t favour the child, and the world is unfair. I would have got worried over the point whether Helen would be able to learn or not. “I