Saturday, July 26, 2008
I’m sure all of us are aware of the current situation in India. I guess it is too early to point fingers or even figure out why this is happening.. But what one needs to understand is that this is Reality. The world is no more a bed of roses and the question of survival of the fittest(rather luckiest) seems to be the theme of the present life
In the words of Pascal “When we consider the short duration of life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which we fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which we are ignorant about, number of thoughts cross my mind what are we doing here? Does life end here or is it just temporary? Do I really exist?” Though this may seem very philosophical to some of you, do give it a thought….
If you think about it, why is there such a huge panic about these serial blasts? Some of you might wonder if I have completely lost my mind, But is anything that is happening new to us? Have we even given a second thought more than “Oh my God, how sad” when something similar happens in Iraq, Israel or the 9/11 incident? These kind of incidents do happen in today’s world and the sooner we learn to accept and stand up for it the better for us.Now just because reality has become visible to us we begin to panic. Shortly after the blasts when I happened to ask a friend what he was doing, he replied “ nothing I’m just hugging my family and watching the news,Im really scared the world might end soon”. Though this sounded sweet, to me it sounded a little strange.Din't these thoughts ever occur to him before the serial blasts?what happens to our courage when things go wrong? Do we see the better, and approve, But follow the worst?
Life is between these pendulums - the positive, the one that gives happiness and meaning, and the negative - that our lives are lived. And when we meditate about all that, we arrive at a diverse and disagreeing set of thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life.
To everything there are two sides of the coin. While some of us choose to be perturbed by the situations others will continue with the present with a sigh “hmmm,Life goes on”. Live each day as it comes and try not live tomorrow ,for tomorrow will take care of itself. I know this is easier said than done, but why not at least try?
There may be trouble ahead, But while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance, Let’s face the music and dance.
Irving Berlin, 1888-1989, American songwriter, Follow the Fleet
1 comments:
Nice one, Smriti!
But, I don't think acceptance of the present 'reality', as you put it, has got anything to do with courage. A catastrophe is only palpable if it's in immediate vicinity. It's simply unacceptable that you or anyone close to you might easily replace that bloodied body on the TV screen. Why Iraq? People are dying everyday in Kashmir.... It's become just a regular feature on the news to watch those few stranded policemen and greiving families. I think we try to keep up the pretence of the 'normal' even when the problem is staring us in the face..... Or else, it becomes too difficult to move on. At the risk of sounding cliche, that's just human nature.
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