WHY ARE THINGS THE WAY THEY ARE?
One of the most irksome things about life, (My life or any one’s life) is that why is there a life at all? What if there wasn’t called life in the first place. Will we live in a fourth dimension? Is life the only medium to reason things? Or is there any other mode of existence (If there is, will it be existence?) Is death the only opposite of Life? Or is death an entrance to ‘Life’ in another sphere? Well, I am not in a suicidal mode or it is not that I am vexed with my existence. I am fighting for life the way others are and I am not complaining, as it is the Survival of the Fittest. I believe any one who using his gray matter will realize that there is much more to life than just breathing in the concoction of 21% of oxygen, 78% nitrogen and 1% other gases. Okay, lets move from the confusing questions regarding Life as such. Looking into our own lives, one finds that we all grow up (at least physically), slog like asses and study, again slog to find a proper ‘Safe’ job, keep our parents happy and settle in our life with a nice family. The ordeal doesn’t end there, the process of graying of the hair begins with our juniors growing up. Now, see to it that they are properly settled in life. In the meanwhile there is all this complains about the way things run. The neighbor lacks manners, the boss doesn’t give you your due respects, kids flunk in their exams, there is a growth in the list of visits to the doctors, the inflation goes up, there is another war coming up, blah, blah. Why this kind of ‘Living’ where one doesn’t get satisfied in any way and is in one way or the other in a catch-22 situation on his next approach? If such kind of living guarantees no ‘Total satisfaction’ then why is 95% of humanity living the way it does now? (Don’t ask about the remaining 5%, nerds like me form them) To this people will say, that no solution is a perfect one and that everything has its loopholes. I then ask, if you guys out there knew that this is not a satisfactory kind of living then why live a wretched life? Or if there is another mode of living then why not adopt it? The answer probably lies in our not trying to think individualistically. I have always believed that in Individualism lie all the answers to many if not all our problems. The common notion of ‘Follow the Herd’ is the most dangerous and yet the easiest method of self-destruction. It is very much necessary that we all do things that we believe will benefit us. After all, the very struggle for existence is based on the foundations of taking things that benefit us and eradicating things that hurt us. But, the process of surviving cannot be generalized onto a population of 6 billion. It is different for different persons. Time and again children are taught to follow the examples of the bright kid in class thereby killing the poor kid’s ability to think and act on his own. It is been this way since eternity. Probably it began when man was struggling to survive as an early man among wild creatures. And suddenly one man kills animals and provides food for his tribe. The people then revere him and now everybody wants to be like him. So, ultimately everybody is ready to be guided by another or that the tendency to be a slave to anyone regardless of the authenticity of the man. Consider the example of Russia and China. Both were in dire straits before the revolutions changed them. The tsarist regime had made the peasants a deprived lot and when Lenin came to the picture, he was readily accepted because the majority had no other option available for a better living. They blindly followed his policies in the hope for a bright future and are today a hopeless lot of people. China was staring down the barrel in 1949 and then came Mao Tse Tung promising them a strong People’s China. The result, millions of intellectuals, liberals, and individualists were killed in the state’s policy of compulsory socialism. Hitler came to power for the same reason. The humiliated Germans needed a messiah and when somebody as stern as Hitler comes and promises a bright future it is understandable that the downtrodden look unto Hitler as the messiah. The rest of the history, we very well know. The primary mistake we all make is we fail to recognize what is right and what is wrong for us. We in a way refuse to apply rationality in our actions. When we say, “I can’t do that”, the hidden statement over here is “I am not willing to do that”. This leads to a situation where we stop following our conscience and follow the easiest way out of the trouble. Well, the conclusion is that we all lead a miserable ‘Life’ out here because we don’t do by natural tendencies and a blanket of falsehood shuts the eyes of our brain. It is not necessary for us to follow the steps of a person whom the society considers as Successful. Success or a failure is determined by our own rational judgment, which is again guided by our sense of what is beneficial to us and what is not. The tag of being a successful person need not come from the mouth of a loser. To a loser the mediocre is always a superior. The standards of our actions are to be set by ourselves and we don’t need a stranger to come and tell us what is good and what is not. Even if we experience what may be a failure to us let us learn Life the hard way, at least we will have only ourselves to blame. It is imperative for us to realize that our success or failure and our present status in life are the result of our own actions. So, people out there do something about the hollow ‘Life’ that you are currently living. Let there be no regrets later.
Vivek
One of the most irksome things about life, (My life or any one’s life) is that why is there a life at all? What if there wasn’t called life in the first place. Will we live in a fourth dimension? Is life the only medium to reason things? Or is there any other mode of existence (If there is, will it be existence?) Is death the only opposite of Life? Or is death an entrance to ‘Life’ in another sphere? Well, I am not in a suicidal mode or it is not that I am vexed with my existence. I am fighting for life the way others are and I am not complaining, as it is the Survival of the Fittest. I believe any one who using his gray matter will realize that there is much more to life than just breathing in the concoction of 21% of oxygen, 78% nitrogen and 1% other gases. Okay, lets move from the confusing questions regarding Life as such. Looking into our own lives, one finds that we all grow up (at least physically), slog like asses and study, again slog to find a proper ‘Safe’ job, keep our parents happy and settle in our life with a nice family. The ordeal doesn’t end there, the process of graying of the hair begins with our juniors growing up. Now, see to it that they are properly settled in life. In the meanwhile there is all this complains about the way things run. The neighbor lacks manners, the boss doesn’t give you your due respects, kids flunk in their exams, there is a growth in the list of visits to the doctors, the inflation goes up, there is another war coming up, blah, blah. Why this kind of ‘Living’ where one doesn’t get satisfied in any way and is in one way or the other in a catch-22 situation on his next approach? If such kind of living guarantees no ‘Total satisfaction’ then why is 95% of humanity living the way it does now? (Don’t ask about the remaining 5%, nerds like me form them) To this people will say, that no solution is a perfect one and that everything has its loopholes. I then ask, if you guys out there knew that this is not a satisfactory kind of living then why live a wretched life? Or if there is another mode of living then why not adopt it? The answer probably lies in our not trying to think individualistically. I have always believed that in Individualism lie all the answers to many if not all our problems. The common notion of ‘Follow the Herd’ is the most dangerous and yet the easiest method of self-destruction. It is very much necessary that we all do things that we believe will benefit us. After all, the very struggle for existence is based on the foundations of taking things that benefit us and eradicating things that hurt us. But, the process of surviving cannot be generalized onto a population of 6 billion. It is different for different persons. Time and again children are taught to follow the examples of the bright kid in class thereby killing the poor kid’s ability to think and act on his own. It is been this way since eternity. Probably it began when man was struggling to survive as an early man among wild creatures. And suddenly one man kills animals and provides food for his tribe. The people then revere him and now everybody wants to be like him. So, ultimately everybody is ready to be guided by another or that the tendency to be a slave to anyone regardless of the authenticity of the man. Consider the example of Russia and China. Both were in dire straits before the revolutions changed them. The tsarist regime had made the peasants a deprived lot and when Lenin came to the picture, he was readily accepted because the majority had no other option available for a better living. They blindly followed his policies in the hope for a bright future and are today a hopeless lot of people. China was staring down the barrel in 1949 and then came Mao Tse Tung promising them a strong People’s China. The result, millions of intellectuals, liberals, and individualists were killed in the state’s policy of compulsory socialism. Hitler came to power for the same reason. The humiliated Germans needed a messiah and when somebody as stern as Hitler comes and promises a bright future it is understandable that the downtrodden look unto Hitler as the messiah. The rest of the history, we very well know. The primary mistake we all make is we fail to recognize what is right and what is wrong for us. We in a way refuse to apply rationality in our actions. When we say, “I can’t do that”, the hidden statement over here is “I am not willing to do that”. This leads to a situation where we stop following our conscience and follow the easiest way out of the trouble. Well, the conclusion is that we all lead a miserable ‘Life’ out here because we don’t do by natural tendencies and a blanket of falsehood shuts the eyes of our brain. It is not necessary for us to follow the steps of a person whom the society considers as Successful. Success or a failure is determined by our own rational judgment, which is again guided by our sense of what is beneficial to us and what is not. The tag of being a successful person need not come from the mouth of a loser. To a loser the mediocre is always a superior. The standards of our actions are to be set by ourselves and we don’t need a stranger to come and tell us what is good and what is not. Even if we experience what may be a failure to us let us learn Life the hard way, at least we will have only ourselves to blame. It is imperative for us to realize that our success or failure and our present status in life are the result of our own actions. So, people out there do something about the hollow ‘Life’ that you are currently living. Let there be no regrets later.
Vivek
1 comments:
Loved this post,Vivek.How true your words are!!Great write!
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