Those who’ve been tracking this column would know that our Wizard with Words is an eternal optimist. So we asked him this question, and he took us on. Without any further ado, here’s Dr Bhaskar Das in the January 7, 2022 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…
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Q. Given all the doom and gloom outside, how does someone like you still be the Eternal Optimist?
A. I feel the doom and gloom must be residing in your inner state. Or you feel a temporary phenomenon a permanent one. Secondly, when was the gloom and doom? Yesterday? It has gone. Today? It would be Yesterday, yomorrow. When one becomes a spectator of life and not a participant and is focussed inwards to experience every atom of life in its splendour, you would fail to notice gloom and doom. Eternal optimism in me is perceived by you. I am in bliss.