Tracking My Emotional Landscape

Tracking My Emotional Landscape is an intimate collection of extracts from the author's personal diaries. It touches on silent conversations we have with ourselves that carry on in our ever-restless minds - the feelings, thoughts, dreams, mishaps and let-downs. It reflects on the relentless grappling with the daily-ness of life ...How difficult it becomes when you lose control of your life and your self-esteem. How crushing it can be when your life, everything you might do, depends on the understanding, the mercy, the generosity and whims of other people. At such times, it is the kindness of strangers that pulls you out of this despair. It is the stranger you meet in the corridor, at the bus-stop or at a coffee-shop, that will make your day, that will make you feel a little warmth. It will not be the ones close to you, the family or relatives. No, none of these. In these moments, you realise that there's no such thing as a stranger, that we are all of us, people. We are, one. It's just that we seldom reach out to hold each other's hand. And when we do, we realise we belong to one single family, that of humans, that the barriers we set up only add to our isolation. Barriers we call; my family not theirs, my country, my religion, my language, house, bed, kitchen, bathroom - you do not own anything in isolation - nothing. There is no stranger. Break the barrier and you see a friend. Break the barrier and you are no longer alone just because what you consider family, or friend has turned their back on you. Free yourself from the shackles of Me and My World. It is, Our World. It will look after us all. Embrace the world. You are never alone....