Grok Your Life : Minutes to Myself

‘Grok Your life’  is an anthology of poems that took me  to the  essence of who I am. Written during moments of contemplation and reflection this book attempts to take the reader through a journey of self-discovery and understanding.The dictionary meaning of ‘Grok’ is to understand profoundly by intuition.  But how do  we do that? When we are thrown into a situation we have thoughts about the facts of the    situation.    These   facts  may  appear  very  real  to  the  mind  and  it  triggers feelings.  We  tend  to  believe  all that our mind tells us and this leads to us to taking actions  based  on  these  feelings.  The  more  we  ruminate  on  these  thoughts  the more intense are the feelings and hence shape the way we act on them. The way we act can impact the situations either positively or negatively which  in turn  feeds  more thoughts and this vicious cycle of thoughts – feelings – action continues. Poetry being the most intuitive form of written expression I decided to pen the intuition behind my thoughts feelings and emotions in the form of poetry.  This book  written in freestyle is a sincere attempt to  express  my  humble  views  and  reflections on what I  have  learnt  and  continue  to  learn  about  what  it takes to grow beyond my limited identity while still living a normal worldly life and how to break free of this cycle.