About Boundless Blue

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Hello! My name is Amitav, and this parcel of internet real-estate is my blog. The page you are currently reading is my "about" page, a mix of a portfolio / auto-biography / memoir. This website is called Boundless Blue as a calque of my name: "amitābha" roughly translates to "infinite light" or "infinite life"(Source), and "krishna" roughly translates to "black" or "dark blue"(Source). while "Infinite Life Dark Blue" does have a certain ring to it, I decided instead on Boundless Blue.

I'm keeping this blog as a sort of public journal for my future self. I live in a community where there are quite a few elderly people, and it's interesting hearing about their stories from when they were younger, but also kind of sad, because it's clear that the people they were 20, 30, 40 years ago are not just dead, but their corpses have been left to rot in the mind of their future selves, slowly warping the thing that they once were. Who I was 10 years ago is completely unrecognizable from who I am today. This blog is meant as a way to capture my thoughts as they happen, so that they will be spared by the ruthless onslaught of forgetfulness. Maybe in 20, 30, 40 years, some kid will listen to me ramble on stories and stories within stories and stories within stories within stories, and will then will stumble upon this, and realize that I've been like this the entire time.