Shekhar Natarajan
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What the hell am I going to do if I lived for 250 years?
I would describe myself definitely as a protopian techno-optimist.
She touched it every morning before sunrise.
A small gold ring.
The only evidence anyone had ever chosen her.
Then one fine day, she took it off.
For me.
A boy with no shoes, no future anyone could see, no proof he was even worth the price.
My mother didn't pawn a ring that day.
She pawned the only story she had that mattered to her.
And she buried on a story that didn't exist yet.
That was my story.
I grew up in a single room in South India, in the slums.
dirt floors and walls that couldn't keep out the rain or the doubt.
But my mother never looked at those walls.
She never looked past them.
That's not hope because hope waits.
She chose a direction and walked towards it.
That's called orientation.
Fire didn't ask our ancestors if they were ready for it.