[13] Embracing Faltugiri

Today I write to muse about the day-to-day human interactions with each other. I think most of the interactions between people have become commonplace, predictable and uninteresting. This was not the case when we were children. As we grow up I observe that we start to talk more and more about mundane, routine and banal stuff. To cut to the chase, I feel that the major ingredient which could make us truly alive is 'faltugiri' and non-politically correctly called 'chootiyapanti'.

Faltugiri is an attitude by which you take charge of your own life. It is characterized by a state of mind in which you are chilled out in all levels of body, mind and soul. It involves challenging the cliched responses that come up in our thought process. Faltugiri is not to be confused about being a clown and making people laugh. It is not about approval seeking and thus could involve saying something 'risky' within the boundaries of not being disrespectful. The journey along this path should be taken for your own sake. It is for the feeling of euphoria in your stomach you get by coming up with something new. Advanced students of faltugiri have stated that any action performed should have your own unique individual 'style' associated to it. Then drinking water from a glass will never be the same routine activity again.

Another aspect of faltugiri is about making falooda of your image in this matrix world. Examples could be asking for a burger in a milkshake parlor, asking for a quarter from a homeless person, cold approach a person of opposite sex and say something weird, start a fight with a stranger etc. The mantra is 'Think counter-intuitive'.

To conclude and paraphrase Seth Mcfarlane, I speak of faltugiri, not vaginas when I say, they never added a dime to my pocket, but they do does bring a smile to my face, so I declare it good.