Take me where I belong...

I want to go hike the Himalayan range, stay there, and breathe in the calm, quiet environs. Keep watching the unsurmountable mountain ranges and their ever-changing dramatic climate. Sit and write beneath the trees and gaze at the heavenly star studded skies while I contemplate. Meander with the rivers and walk the beaten paths and sometimes make my own in the wilderness. Just go on and on not settling at a single place, unless I see the entire Himalayan Mountainscape.

And, I want to write at least 50 books.

This is what I think every passing day, and that is what I yearn to do.

 But you would wonder, why I am sharing all this with you.

While I sat and contemplated on the things I want to do in life, the very state of fear and tragedy looming around did leave me less hopeful. Will I be able to achieve what I so want in this lifetime? That's when, I recollected strongly reading this true incident. I often recollect this anecdote when things are gloomy, and it gives me hope to live on and aspire.

Today, I want to share this hope with all of you.

I read this anecdote around 5 years back when I read this book and I have a powerful recollection of it, in the tough and testing times.

The book is, 'The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.'

Maybe, many of you have already read this book and know about this anecdote. It is a powerful book filled with real and positive affirmations if you wish to read.

 But I will anyways share with you today this anecdote to reinforce your thoughts.

 A famous Scientist and Physicist Dr. Lothar von Blenk-Schmidt used his subconscious mind to free himself from the brutal hands of Russian guards in a prison concentration camp. As a prisoner of World War II, he saw other men dying around him in the prison. Many were not even given their share of food if they could not complete their allotted work, they were weak, they were hopeless, they were seeing the suffering all around, they were scared, and all this created a not too conducive environment to live.

Dr. Lothar's home in Germany was wiped off, he had lost his family, friends and associates to the war concentration camps (Concentration camps were brutal places where humanity was compromised in the name of power and politics. WWII saw many concentration camps where prisoners of war were kept. They were horrendous, and the most talked about was the Auschwitz concentration camp in Southern Poland).

He says in the book, "I started concentrating on my escape. I prompted my subconscious mind that I want to go to Los Angeles. I had seen pictures of Los Angeles and remembered certain boulevards and some buildings.

Every night I would imagine walking down the Wilshire Boulevard with an American girl I had met at Berlin before the war. In my imagination, we would eat in restaurants, ride buses, and visit stores. Every night I made this imaginary play in my mind and made it appear as vivid as possible.

Finally, with a stroke of luck, I was able to escape from the prison camp and reach Poland. Post which, with the help of my friends, I managed to reach Lucerne, Switzerland.

Incidentally, at Lucerne, I met an American couple who invited me to California, America. On my way to the couple's home, I passed the Wilshire Boulevard that I saw in my imaginary every night, along with some other boulevards. It looked like I had always been part of this land."

 Dr. Lothar eventually went on to marry the same American girl he met in Berlin.

Being in a hostile concentration camp for months, where hope does not even flutter around, only the power of his subconscious mind drove him to his goal.

We all are in a more or less hostile situation today. Lodged in the confines of our own homes, searching for some hope in the event of losing dear ones and listening to heart wrenching news, is like a new normal. But this environment cannot stay on and it should not stay.

The belief and practice in the power of subconscious mind has affected many a small and positive changes in my life. And all I ask you is..

In these gloomy times, think about what you wish to do in life? Think about what you aspire to be? What you yearn to do? Where you plan to travel? What is the first thing you would do after the pandemic ceases to exist? What are your personal goals? What are your professional aspirations?

And most of all, what have you missed out in life that comes as an awakening now?

Then be it eccentric, be it lame just think what would drive you out of this mundane existence.... one day. Give yourselves that little hope. Drill in to your mind, take me where I belong. Show your life the path you wish to walk. Keep a desire, aspire and while doing it all, do not forget to live.