Cover Letter

May 23, 2018

My thought for my day - Today

Keeping the brain active is the key to a healthy brain. Keeping the body active, is a key to a healthy body. Simple. Yeah?

Was talking to my 61-year-old mother this morning about her 85-year-old mother. How my grandma still remembers the birthdays and addresses without facebook sending her updates or Google showing her directions. It got us thinking about Dementia and how keeping the brain active and having a healthy social life has its impact on the brain at the later stages of life.

My retired yet working mother, couldn't stay at home for 4 days straight with her new muse, the youtube. She says browsing her phone makes her all dull and gloomy. 

A recent conversation with my sister-in-law who is systematically managing my niece's therapy was talking about formulating goals and creating strategies to achieve the goals. Absolute project management on a live project with various stakeholders and almost instant feedback. And lots of black holes and dead ends.

Yes, all the three people are busy with their respective duties, keeping their heads ever occupied and constantly thinking and contemplating. 

And here I am, not able to sit for ten minutes straight to write a cover letter to a job I intended to apply a week ago. I  have the attention span of a fly and the patience of a bee. I never knew how to think, words just rattle off my mouth. Sometimes, it does amuse me when I talk sense. I always feel I am capable of doing more. But now, I am gradually forgetting all that I had learned in the last 31 years of my life. Yup, unused things get wasted and find their own exit, my brain is no exception.

Thankfully, the introspect button is still able to function under the thick greasy adipose layer. The only sound I hear for the major part of my day is the sound in my head. The sound which talks to all the imaginary people like a telepathic skype call. And which is equally active in the night, connecting my subconscious to strange things with weird connections. Just the way my LinkedIn profile throws me job profiles based on one random job I browse.

Yes, the cover letter isn't finished yet. Between eating fruit, junk, and husband dearest's chicken curry and rice, and watching some short films and browsing my phone and the damned facebook, and not stepping out in spite of the lovely weather outside, I sit to finish my cover letter. Instead, I open my blog for the first time. YoursThoughtfully, it is the name my husband thought of and I didn't connect to it then. Now, I feel more connected to it than ever before. Putting down the random thoughts that keep floating in my head day in and day out in this little space, to see them take a shape gives me some satisfaction. Some usefulness. Not to the society at large, but to the large body and small mind of me. Not a purpose of achievement but the feeling of unburdening. To be with me. Yes, an attempt to observe the thoughts that intertwine in my head and come out in its own flow. 

Yes, the cover letter isn't finished yet. The dishes are waiting to be cleaned. Before I get up to make myself a cup of tea, I intend to write at least a meaningful sentence or two for my cover letter. 

Until then, 

Yours Thoughtfully,

Sameera