Welcome to TrimEgo, a space where you can discover yourself

Hello there! Welcome to TrimEgo, my newsletter through which I intend to spread awareness about ourselves. You may be wondering where this guy suddenly emerged from, so an introduction:

‘What a rally!’, exclaimed my father lying in bed. ‘Deuce’, he said after a few moments. I looked around and the television was switched off.

I had just then returned from an internet cafe, elated, and broke the news. ‘Dad, my application to join LSE has been accepted.’

‘LSE is a great school. You will learn a lot there. I am very happy for you.’ He responded after nearly 12 hours.

I feared the inevitable was beginning to happen. Parkinson’s was advancing. The ex-Davis Cup player had lost the sense of time.

My first existential outbreak, if I may call it so, was that ‘how can one, having been born and living in time, lose sense of time while being alive?’

My father died a few months later. While at one end I mustered courage to accept the loss, existential questions began sprouting on the other end, crown jewels of which were ‘who am I?’, ‘what is time?’, and ‘what am I doing here on this planet?’.

At LSE, a professor once said, ‘In layman terms, economics is all about making our future secure and happy’. But deep within, I knew something was not quite right. ‘Is time real? Or is it a consequence of our own observation? If it were a consequence, would economics turn on its head?’ These questions grew into mammoth trees in me amid the shrubs of modern economic theories and practices that gave me no convincing answers.

As I continued my quest observing the environment, I experienced a series of stilling revelations. I felt deep connections between every person and thing I saw. These radiant connections, although unsure how they arose, were short-lived but felt infinite enough to bundle the entire fabric of time into it. Eventually, these revelations led me to learn more about my own brain. What a new world it led me into, enabling me to discover the roots of my ego and time, beyond which the radiant connection emerged, rendering an infinite ocean of energetic nothingness into which my ego and time effortlessly dissolved.

That the world is in disorder with confusion, wars and conflicts is of no dispute. We often do not realise that this life of ours is temporary although the human race would like to project like a spiked-up arrow on a chart. There is a strong likelihood that I as a writer and you as a reader may not be fighting wars, but mankind, which we too represent, is engaged in endless fighting. At the root of it all is 'fear'. Fear of the future primarily, and we want to secure it by any means whatsoever. The space beyond the human ego is quite refreshingly different from the artificial human world we live in interwoven in the linear fabric of time, fearing moment after moment in anticipation of the future.

Pursuant to my journey of self-awareness, I began writing. My first book, 'Beneath the walnut and its almond chamber ', aims to simplify the ostensibly convoluted working patterns of the brain to help readers gain a better understanding of themselves. With a similar aim, I subsequently launched my podcast, 'TrimEgo ', implying trimming one's ego. Now, this newsletter.

I wish this newsletter (and my book and podcasts should you be interested to explore more), helps you to discover your true nature, overcome fear and lead a happy life. Please subscribe, share and post your comments and questions.

Wishing us all a happy and peaceful 2024 ahead!