Elements- Intimacy, Conviction and Diffidence
ELEMENTS What are we, but elements of desire, strung together by life. What are desires, but the hunger for validation, pulled apart by us. In the upcoming series of excerpts, I try to explore the elements that forms us. Elements that make us who we are. Elements that define us. The excerpts will be supported by stories; stories of people in real life, in the books I read, in the movies I watch, in the songs I hear. Stories I connected with, stories I experienced and stories I felt. In this trilogy of Elements I device Intimacy, Conviction and Diffidence. I recently started watching a US TV series called Homeland. The first season of the show revolves around an American Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody, held captive by the Al Qaeda as a Prisoner Of War, who was rescued after eight years. The protagonist Carrie Mathison, a CIA Operations Officer believes that he has been turned against his country by the terrorists and tries to convince her seniors who believe of him as...