Processing gratitude during uncertainty
Pranjulaa Singh
Global Cultural Strategist & Independent Director | Award-Winning Leader Driving Arts & Culture Transformation in London & India
Days have stopped making sense to most and reality is an illusion. Time has just something we are trying to keep up with because of our work and school schedules and really doing something is the only way we are keeping ourselves sane.
On Saturday, 6th June, I was invited by the local Radio Chaska 95 FM as a Pride of Gwalior (my parent’s city, my hometown and a place I have always had the trouble identifying as my city. I do identify more with Mumbai because I have lived there all of my adult life). Well, I was invited for a live and exclusive interview with RJ Muskaan there and really it was a pleasure.
They went live on facebook with some 3 lakh people listening to me and constant calls coming my way asking the same questions of how to be a poet and I realised oh my god. So many people struggling to express but don’t know how? So many deprived of humanities as a subject in high school and pushed toward engineering and civil services instead.
In response to this and due to a suggestive universal call of getting in touch with a lot of online educational institutes and organisations who want me to teach something. I decided what is better than to teach poetry? To sign up you can email me at [email protected]
I was so overwhelmed with all that was happening in this world, that I forgot that this year has actually been very good for me. With audio book on Storytel and a self published ebook on Kindle, I didn’t even realize when I became an author and poet in my own right. Earlier in February, the arts magazine, Arts Illustrated also published my poem for which I won a competition to interpret their painting.
Now with 800 poems to my credit and these minor confidence boosts this year, I feel with this lock down and a surge in educational initiatives, I think I can afford to spread the love and help people heal themselves. It is daunting when I think of it but yes, next month I also have my yoga teaching exams because of which I am diving into my center as I spend more and more time rediscovering the wonder that I am, become the sun and spread light.
I wish the same for you.