Weekly letter 03/2023
New Year, New Beginnings.
Hello!
Happy New Year and Happy Sankranthi! Hope you are doing well!
If you’re wondering what this letter is all about, I’ve given some detail about it here. In brief, I’m just trying to build healthy internet relations that I failed to do on social media. This idea of weekly letters is also inspired from Thejesh GN’s weekly notes. They are a lovely read. I love the idea of letters.
2022 has been been chaotic, but intentional. I moved to a remote WFH job, because I needed time to pursue various things of my interest. Helped me spend more time with friends and family as well.
Two members from my childhood gang got married. I danced at the wedding. One flew to the UK this week. Big positive changes could take place in others’ life soon. Got reminded, yet again, that things I took for granted could be temporary. I think we are left with only one option - to seek beauty in the temporariness. Because any effort to make things permanent will only bring repulsion, resentment and pain. I’m making conscious efforts to embrace the temporariness and spend every possible opportunity with much more vigor.
I got a break from work for the two weeks of 2022. That gave me a lot of time to think about things that truly interest me. My heart went back to my interest in film-making and public policy (from which I have been a little away). Got enrolled in a theater workshop and a Takshashila’s Graduate Certificate in Public Policy with Tech Policy focus. If everything goes well in the next 3-4 months, I will be acting in a play and getting a diploma in public policy :D
I have also read a Telugu book cover to cover for the first time. It’s called బాహుదా బతుకు కథలు (Bahuda Bathuku Kathalu). Got a signed copy from the author Boodhuri Sudarshan. I think he is 24 years old. Amazing person. Inspired me to write in Telugu. So I started writing these letters in Telugu as well.
And thus, without any new year resolution, I got to start the new year with new beginnings :)
This writing of weekly notes is also nice. It’s doubling up as a good journaling exercise. Hoping to hear back from you as well! Tell me about your new year, resolutions made (and already broken :p)
With Love,
Sai Krishna
Hello Krishna! This made for a refreshing read just like a letter. Continue writing them to inspire your readers to pause and ponder. Your reflection on temporariness took me back to my fascination with the Buddhist idea of "anitya". The "new year resolutions" are but a literal and metaphorical manifestation of the same impermanence :p