River meets the Ocean : Minutes to Myself

River meets the Ocean is a collection of short musings that I wrote as notes to myself during the Covid pandemic. As I was struggling to come to terms with the new normal and every aspect of life was disrupted these contemplative moments that I spent writing empowered me to swim through this period with more clarity and contentment. A drop of water has its unique identity until it reaches the ocean. Once it reaches the ocean its individuality dissolves and it takes a mightier form. The water all along had all the properties of the ocean but it did not know the full potential until it merges with the ocean. Likewise humans too think of our limited existence as our true identity and mistakenly cage our limitless potential to thrive and flourish. This book has been written in free style in the form of short poems. It will be a good read for someone with a contemplative mindset who would like to ponder over deeper questions about life. As the river meanders to the sourcegushing and rushing with the flowstumbling and changing its coursein the confluence ofthe real and the unrealthe seeker and the soughtthe knower and the knownIt gets to realisethe Ocean in a dropletthe Cosmos within it. ~ Brindha Venkataramani