Brij Sachdeva blog

CONSOLATION FANTASY Written by Brij Sachdeva Man for his whole life remains living in a certain kind of fantasy of consolation. If we escape an accident receiving minor abrasions and mild bruises, we say "Oh! good that bones were saved from getting fractures." If many of our bones get fractured we are consoled that we escaped the head injury. If we get a head injury we say "It is good that the life is saved." Sheela was explaining to Shalini how her husband died immediately after receiving a gunshot to his head. Shalini, after listening to the story very anxiously, uttered taking a deep breath, "Oh! it is good that it didn't hit his eye."The eye was saved. A great consolation. My message is that we have to take responsibility and face reality. Only then real solutions to the problems that are by-products of unrealistic approaches will emerge. Accepting and facing reality is a catalyst for the growth of wisdom and individuality. To b...

A TRIP TO THE DESERT OF REALITY Written by  Brij Sachdeva My name is Brij Sachdeva. I am writing this not to earn money. Out of passion, I am writing. Writing has a therapeutic value in psychotherapy. Writing is one of the best therapies. From the very childhood, I have always felt that there is something different about me. I have always felt that people are living in an ocean of delusions in this society, and I love breaking these delusions. Through my writings, I am going to smash these delusions. I am going to show the world who I am and what I feel about how this world is and how it ought to be, and then leave it up to the people to realise my worth. I am going to continue doing this until the sky falls down, over me. The thing is that we are living in a society in which reality is an unwanted and the least significant value. People love to live in a certain kind of unrealistic world in which everyone is consoling one another through unfounded deceptive philosophies ...