Disquiet
My existence has been wretchedly chaotic in the last 14 years. I am wrapping up a research article I started 17 years ago. In this period, I got (amicably) divorced, moved back to my home country India from the US and lost my mother to cancer, which I have only recently gotten over. I am an only child and my mom and I were very close. It was a shock when we lost her.
As a result of the circumstances under which all this happened my mind has not been at rest. Anything I write is less about catharsis than explicitly political. Therefore, rather than to a therapist (an American concept I never quite took to), I thought I would start writing in this rather quiet forum on DU.
Political to me does not connote noisily spectacular. If anything, quite the reverse.
But writing out my side of things like Frankenstein’s monster (I saw the new movie recently - it was not too bad as such things go), in a measured way seems like a better plan at this point than attempting (and unsuccessfully) to repress all thoughts of the period from Sept 2011-the present.
I shall try that..