Mindscape

This word first hit my grey cells when our college psychology exhibition was named so. The word made me think & look at the broad sense. This 9-letter word is most apt to the filed of psychology. Mindscape- two words fused in such a way that the meaning goes beyond it- Mind and Escape…

It can be interpreted as a Mind that wants to escape, a Mind that is in course of escaping. This escapade can be in the sense of reality or in mystical world. In short, a Mind that needs help. And what better person to help this Mind than a psychologist.

A psychologist, a complete stranger whom you are able to confide in. Can speak volumes about your thoughts, actions, feelings, emotions, etc. People who came to a psychologist are people whom I am referring to as Escaping Minds.

Depression sufferers escape from facts, hallucinates escape from reality, psychotics and neurotics escape from many other avenues of life.

But for once if one sits back to think we commonly say that they are people who need help so that they can lead a normal life. But who is to decide what is normal and what is not? If one sees the other side of horizon, according to them they believe the facts strongly that they hold about life, oneself and reality. They feel they are the right ones who are amongst wrong people. They speak their Minds.

One thing I would like to ask one and all reading this, how many times have you compromised a thought or action? How many times have you changed your view because of someone? And how many times have you held back your words back because it may hurt some one? And we cal ourselves Normal?!

I appreciate and admire the so-called ‘Abnormal’ for least they speak their mind so what if it’s escaping. I am not supporting this condition of theirs and needless to say they do need help. We the so-called Normal have the sane mind to think and manipulate even the psychological questionnaire.

But their escaping mind can’t do that and speak what is going on with them. Just today I would like all of us to think like them, feel like them, speak like them, emote like them… Just today I would like to call us- Abnormal!