Questions, Pause, Direction

“A Pause is therefore not essentially a break. A pause can help accelerate or it can dissipate
A pause can help reconstitute  regenerate,
Or it can Erase , presenting a new challenge with a clean slate”

in last few years of designing, leading and practicing the goals of our Eco-Culture-Arts projects I start to ponder on our aims and its true purpose. Do we really need to do what we do/ what is the outcome of our work/ will our community work change anything atall? What is Impact and how does it work in a bigger picture?

These questions call for a pause.

Arriving at the answer to these questions can be relative, depending on who is asking them and with what intentions. 

As from my personal experience, it feels like no Impact is of any value till it is directed towards transformative change. All other efforts are cyclic momentary satisfaction.

Transformation can be the pinnacle of change, or maybe the basis of it?

My Paper maché experiments on ‘Mu’/ ‘Shunya’ (nothingness)

Many of us want change and are looking for it outside . Though many say, real change might begin at an individual level, yet, how do I address individual work as a collective being? Or should one even mix both these things.

Upgrading Physical structure without enhancing the essence might not sustain long enough.

But what do i do with many such Questions?

Maybe a time for a pause i thought

A Pause can clarify

saving time and resources

which would end up as a waste.

A Pause is not to not do

but to slow down and not initiate.

Not to completely press the left leg on brakes

but not either to exert the right one and accelerate

A Pause is therefore not essentially a shut down

But to slowdown and maintain pace

A pause can help reconstitute  regenerate

Or it can Erase

presenting a new challenge with a clean slate

A pause can be gradual

slowing down and picking up momentum

While retaining a chance 

for a change of direction.

Change might not be visible 

but internally felt

whose effects might show up at a later date.

For the pause too is not seen in outer layers

it is experienced within one's inner space.

And from there arises the new ways

Sometimes changing direction

sometimes our goals

many times the grade of work

Leading us towards evolutionary methods?

Well, I keep searching 

and breathing 

to find what's next.