Yes, you read it right. Priya Kumar, motivational speaker and first-time-author questions, “Why wait for life to whack you?” In the same breath she says, “Do it yourself!”
“Why don’t you walk on the glass?” asks Priya Kumar, as she spreads the broken glass on the black-n-white chequered bedspread. Politely declining the offer, I sit and watch as Priya takes off her shoes and socks. Without breaking eye contact with her audience, she steps on the makeshift “broken glass floor”.
The floor was thrown open for audience to try and walk on the “glass ramp”. The rare ones were constantly discouraged or distracted by Priya. She says, “I do that to distract but people’s mind is focused on the walk and the broken glass under their feet.” One would wonder why this? “One thing is for sure, those who walk the glass never complain.” She explains, “It is about taking responsibility, most often we put the responsibility in the wrong place.” The glass is just an analogy.
She says, “Eight-five per cent of people are living accidentally and not intentionally. When you walk on the glass you are intentionally walking so you are taking responsibility.” That’s how one should live life too, she believes.
As a first-time author, she says, the book, I am another you, is her experience with Shamans tribe of the Netherlands. She writes that natives “indulge in spiritual processes for their evolution and freedom”.
Priya wrote the book in six days flat. “I wasn’t writing a story, it was my experience,” she says that’s why the speed. And it isn’t a book that gives advice or makes a do-it list. Her manner and style of sharing her experience make the book unique and different, as a reader mentioned.
The book was launched in the city at Odyssey book store, Indiranagar. So, if you like self-help books may be this one’s for you. It doesn’t dictate but shares an experience that could be similar to yours, and that’s why “I am another you”, says Priya.
