Heart, Brains, Rules, DOs, DON’Ts, SHOULDs, SHOULDN’Ts, Mind over Matter………..huh……all messed up……!!!
What all is going on after all? I simply fail to understand sometimes.
This is not an article, but just a reflection of the turbulent out and inflow of thoughts, which came to my mind a few moments back when I was going through a post or two in this magazine.
Sometimes and also while reading minutes back, I try to visualise the exact direction in which this world is slowly proceeding. Eevrytime I try, everytime I get a blurred image. Blurred, not in its pixels or contrasts. But blurred, in its components and theme and spirit.
Ever observed this? Just an instance. At a busy public spot, not always but often, the consequences of your ABSOLUTELY ACCIDENTAL collision with a stranger might be red eyes, abusing lips with no volume or a loud concern with like twenty-year-old frustrations beautifuly dissolved in it. These symptoms may be exhibited separately or come out as a family pack, you never know.
So you see, this is just an example. You might relate this instance in several other ways in your daily lives. It sometimes feels as if people, by default are angry. Inwards, they sometimes want to explode somewhere. There’s no trust. No sympathy and moreover, no empathy even. I, me and myself - the new age mantra. In a hyper-city like Mumbai, chances are pretty high that your neighbour might not befriend or even know you but yes, you will happily play cards in the local train while commuting to office with the people who travel with you everyday at your office going hours. You know them better, you share with them better, you respect them better, pretty possible that even more than your colleagues !
People within colonies, districts within states, states within countries, countries within civilisations and civilisations among them are religiously engaged in an ongoing mutual disrespect, distrust and finally destruction.
Everybody wants to stay ahead. Ironic is, it doesn’t matter if that staying ahead is winning or just a blind race. But yes, staying ahead has become the way of living. And if you can’t stay ahead, atleast show it off, that is the new IN thing.
People are dying hard to win arguments. The more you win arguments, the more mental strength you are supposed to possess. Again the irony is, these arguments have lost empathy. Winning ONLY has become important.
Why ?
Why are we not content within ourselves or within the positive approaches we follow in our lives ? Why do these negative radicalities of individualism, regionalism, communalism, racism and numerous others are cropping up within us with roots penetrated infinitely deep, and keep getting incorporated within our approaches towards our lives?
Ask a child in India about Pakistan or vice versa. In majority replies, you will find hatred. Accepted that pasts have been turbulent, tragic and unavoidable at times. But does that mean that we are bound to carry it forward to our each generation till eternity? This was just an example at national level. On similar notes we can find instances at individual, societal and national levels. Why are we not ready to forget past and get ready for future? Why always conquering is necessary ?
These questions may or may not be answered. But one consequence is for sure - If we, as an individual, as a society, as a country and as a globe, continue these mannerisms, then leave alone the world wars or nuclear wars, civilisations themselves will end. Slowly and unknowingly, WE OURSELVES ARE EATING UP OURSELVES.
Please fight this hunger, this thirst, of power, of control, of money, of supremacy, of ego. Solution is not in this article, not in the speeches of any Dharma GURU, not in any religious television channel but with ourselves. We ARE equipped to make this world a better place to live in, but we ourselves are denying looking up to those equipments.
Think it this way as Dan Brown once said: Tiniest of particle has a mass which is attracted by gravity. Billions and billions of such particles when combined form moon which attract gallons and gallons of water of oceans at earth. So if tiniest particles can combine to pull up such huge volumes of water, why can’t we humans on the same earth can get together to fight these radicalities prevailing by simply understanding them first individually. If all our minds unite to focus at this single thought, we can surely convert it into a consequence.
Wake Up and contribute in your own little or big way to this cause - not of yours, not of mine but for the phianthropy of the present and future.
