{"id":582,"date":"2009-07-08T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-07-08T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:21:44","slug":"pebbles-in-a-pool-of-stillness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/pebbles-in-a-pool-of-stillness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pebbles in a pool of stillness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deepak R wrote the following piece, and does anyone have answers ?<br \/>\n&#8220;Shekhar, you started your blog&#8217;site&#8217; with something so simple and smelling fresh:<br \/>\n&#8216;I exist because you imagine I do&#8217;.<br \/>\nWhere did that come from ? One could have pretty much stopped with at that. And it would not matter.<br \/>\nHowever words keep appearing on the windscreen of your experience. There is a need to put them out for the imagined outer world. A need to bounce them off. To see how they would bounce back. To constantly throw pebbles into the pool of stillness and watch the ripples. People coming here are keen to throw a few of their pebbles in as well. There are some that observe and comment on the ripples and some who see the stillness against which they appear.<br \/>\nWhy this need?. It seems, after all,  the people have the need to sustain the imagination that &#8216;you exist&#8217;, is it not Shekhar. This intimate and torrid love affair with ideas, words on the blog,in the mind, can it end, no denying it is most enjoyable!! But to whom? Who is hell bent on stamping his existence through these imprints ? Who is he reporting the success or failure of his effort to ?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepak R wrote the following piece, and does anyone have answers ? &#8220;Shekhar, you started your blog&#8217;site&#8217; with something so simple and smelling fresh: &#8216;I exist because you imagine I do&#8217;. Where did that come from ? 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