Bubble gum, Gods and Emotional Intelligence

She looked in the mirror. Her face puckered and tears started rolling down her sunscreen-applied cheeks. She noticed she was crying. Like obviously. But that's not the point. She really looked into her eyes. Then she stopped crying. She was exhausted. She was hurt. She's still not learnt the art of showing. She's telling. She gulped her emotions down her sensitive throat. She is the woman of the 21st century. Her therapy session through body movement revealed all her unexpressed emotions were stored in her jaw. Every time she forgot to stand up for herself her jaw became a storehouse of unsaid, justice seeking, truth setting words that never went out. She's listening to a new track by a new, upcoming artist about Maaye (Illusion). As someone who loses touch with reality again and again, she wants Vishnu to be kind. The God laughs and she pleads. She thinks of God Shiva, he's always unavailable unlike her who has taken his name and made her emotionally too available. It occurred to her that she needs to invoke the feminine. She prayed to the deity that other women in the family believed in and had a conversation with the deity in her mind. She commanded to the deity to either take all her desires and convert them into dust under her feet and give her relief and detachment or take them to her heart and let it blossom. Please take my desires any way. Take them. The deity told her to open her jaw and that can only happen if she retorts back to the ones that have shut her up. She conveyed it is not easy. The deity gave her a bubble gum and asked her to loosen her jaw up a little bit.

I think the gods could try group therapy.

She thought that was a great idea but it was not a long-term solution. So, the deity went with her to therapy. The deity fell in love with therapy and gifted Vishnu and Shiva one session each. Expectedly, Vishnu thought it was not bad but Shiva wasn’t coming to therapy with a growth mindset. So, all four of them took a group therapy session. The therapist facilitated it really well and while it was made clear that a bubblegum is not recommended, all of them were recommended to read up on emotional intelligence. And that’s how world peace came into being.