Poetries with AJ: Recent Episodes
Sonu Joseph
Thoughts, perceptions and stories build our life. Let's take a few minutes out to think and introspect everyday living.
Happy New Year Everyone. This episode allows us to get inspired by autumn leaves. How they take their fall gracefully and enjoy everything about it. They consider the fall as a flight with the wind and the change in distance. Happy to be in every situation and enjoy every aspect of life be it happiness or sadness.
Today's poetry is all about sunshine. When the rain pours at its might, everything seems so gloomy and nothing seems to function, and all we wait for a ray of sunshine to make it all better. The darkness is suddenly filled with light and everything around makes us smile.
Today's episode is about an old lady selling sanitary pads door to door to collect enough money to treat her cancer. She lived a self-respecting life who inspired me to earn what you own and there could be a time when you no longer know if it's all worth it but in the end your soul matters.
This episode consists of a personal story where surprisingly pain was good and was a step towards a cure. It also tells about the fact that whenever we are in pain, we tend to give up but instead, we should keep in mind that pain comes before something good is about to happen. There are a few relatable examples and one could feel connected with those to believe that in the end good things are meant to happen after going through all the pain. There is always light after darkness.
We expect too much from love then tend to get disappointed when what we imagined doesn't happen. In this perishable world, we think that love will be with us forever. We need to treat it like we treat ourselves as love is not perfect. Love is just love.
This episode talks about the dark feeling that we all have at some point in time. The feeling that makes us question everything, we feel hopeless but it's something that everyone feels at a point in life. It's okay. It's normal and it will pass.
A reply to a friend about questions that everyone asks at some point in their lives. The ambiguity of the future adds up to the pain that we feel when faced with a choice. This episode talks about being selfish to love oneself and to be themselves. Let's look at pain and sadness as something beautiful to endure and something that helps us to build our core as a human.
In a world where everyone wants everything that they desire, one tends to forget that is it worth it? In a world where everyone wants to be happy we tend to define our satisfaction in comparison with others. The story is about a dishwasher who made it to the VIP section but nothing felt different. Everything was average.
This is a letter to anyone who is alone and is in search of someone. It is a letter that would tell you to stop, take a break, and love yourself first before you go ahead and love this other person. It will tell you to be your soulmate and embrace yourself.
Like music, we should try to be free from all differences that are restricting us from being in sync with the universe. Our universe is waiting for us to get ahead of all such difference like gender, color, nationality, religion, age, etc. and get explored. It's ready to give us all the happiness we want but all we need to do is let go of societal boundaries that we made for ourselves.
This episode gives you an insight of a person doubting himself/herself for being stuck in the day to day living unable to follow his/her passion. He keeps calling himself useless and and wants to make his name. However, unable to do so he is asking the listeners if his work towards his family doesn't count, if his daily chores doesn't matter.