the toughest part of being young is getting inspired. this is more true for those of us who can not find inspiration within ourselves. (this is a little weird). there are so many achievers all around us and so many people fighting for existence. there are politicians, industrialists, parents, sports persons, activists and authors. but their shine diminishes when the fact that they belong to this ridiculous world dawns on me. Amartya sen is a great man. but he is a part of the world that looks down upon the poor and becomes a puppet for the rich.
so the thought, "what keeps me going?" what inspires this cynic to go on and beat life and suck-in the best of its tastes? as funny as it sounds..nothing has inspired me quite the way nature has. we live in her like a child refusing to leave his mother's womb. we are the other end of a thankless job-motherhood. while we are unceremoniously killing her, she patiently welcomes one creature after the other into this world. every 3 minutes a human, i do not know how many butterflies, plants birds and animals she welcomes with open arms.
this inspiration does not require personification. i can look up to her, without looking..because she is there all around, silently inhaling carbon monoxide and supplying oxygen. for someone who is less patient than a hungry child there is much to learn from nature. the beauty we never praise.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
status quo
opinions or no opinions, freedom of expression or no freedom of expression, life or no life...every parent is freaky when it comes to their kids breaking status quo. Archana "you can not wear that shirt its not appropriate" archana "you cant eat without a table cloth" archana you can not go for a movie anywhere but PVR" ggggrrrrhhhhhhhh......(roars)
GIVE ME A BREAK!!
that is the pressure to stick to the status quo!
Status quo is a Latin term meaning the present existing state of affairs, or "the state in which". To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they currently are.
how you dress, how you eat, how you sleep, whom you marry, where you study, where you live, what number and kind of vehicles you drive, where you go for your vacations is all decided by status quo.
like in school, the cool guys went to the western music bands, and you were not allowed to think of the Indian choir as cool. this was because that is common perception "Indian music at school is not cool"
like at work, status quo dictates that you do not talk in an overly friendly manner to the office boy. that is not because you yourself feel weird about it, but because you have been taught from ever that you do not treat everybody unconditionally.
OH NO!! i am not going to change how the world has been running...but there is this tiny bird hiding under my nest of hair..and she says "what you like and what you believe in...is an expression of who you are. not who your forefathers were or chose to be" and i love that tiny bird...and maybe one day she will be forced to fly away from that nest to never come back but until then with all my naivete in place under my skull...i shall stick to my bird and not the bird of others.
GIVE ME A BREAK!!
that is the pressure to stick to the status quo!
Status quo is a Latin term meaning the present existing state of affairs, or "the state in which". To maintain the status quo is to keep the things the way they currently are.
how you dress, how you eat, how you sleep, whom you marry, where you study, where you live, what number and kind of vehicles you drive, where you go for your vacations is all decided by status quo.
like in school, the cool guys went to the western music bands, and you were not allowed to think of the Indian choir as cool. this was because that is common perception "Indian music at school is not cool"
like at work, status quo dictates that you do not talk in an overly friendly manner to the office boy. that is not because you yourself feel weird about it, but because you have been taught from ever that you do not treat everybody unconditionally.
OH NO!! i am not going to change how the world has been running...but there is this tiny bird hiding under my nest of hair..and she says "what you like and what you believe in...is an expression of who you are. not who your forefathers were or chose to be" and i love that tiny bird...and maybe one day she will be forced to fly away from that nest to never come back but until then with all my naivete in place under my skull...i shall stick to my bird and not the bird of others.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
ahem!
HI! i am trying to learn how to blog. it might not be rocket science..but still it surely requires..tact.....
usually young people under the age of 25 choose to isolate themselves from politics. governance dictates our existence in more ways than one, yet we choose to believe it is a puddle, if you throw stones at it..all you will get is a face splattered with dirt. but if you do not enter the water, you can not catch fish!! its okay to think that perhaps i can not make a whole lot of difference, but i think i am too young to either compromise with the situation by saying "it is okay..there is nothing i can do about it..might as well live with it" or to believe "it is a melodramatic twist of events that i do not want to look at"
and at the end of all this rambling...i get crowned a "kid"
SIGH! i really do not want to grow up...i am fine being.. ahem..ahem.... a kid
usually young people under the age of 25 choose to isolate themselves from politics. governance dictates our existence in more ways than one, yet we choose to believe it is a puddle, if you throw stones at it..all you will get is a face splattered with dirt. but if you do not enter the water, you can not catch fish!! its okay to think that perhaps i can not make a whole lot of difference, but i think i am too young to either compromise with the situation by saying "it is okay..there is nothing i can do about it..might as well live with it" or to believe "it is a melodramatic twist of events that i do not want to look at"
and at the end of all this rambling...i get crowned a "kid"
SIGH! i really do not want to grow up...i am fine being.. ahem..ahem.... a kid
laodicean
laodicean... means half-hearted especially in politics and/or religion. it suggests neutrality or indifference. in the Book of Revelation Christ is to have instructed this message to the laodicean church(which is one of the seven churches mentioned from Asia Minor -Roman province)
" I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. "
that should explain the term very well. the point is that today, it is the most common phenomenon and the least mouthed term. people are either diplomatic or indifferent. there is no hesitation that mounts the hesitation of taking a stand. so, who ever takes a stand is blindly followed.
that is why Gandhi was able to accomplish so much, and that is why today when someone decides to say " people of Maharashtra you have been wronged and inadequately represented and you need to smash the skull of the Biharis who have snatched your rights, we get the news bulletins that have decorated the newspapers these last couple of weeks.
is thinking for oneself the most difficult of chores? is it chore ? why is it so unnatural to know and have opinions? why is thought always dictated by another?
" I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. "
that should explain the term very well. the point is that today, it is the most common phenomenon and the least mouthed term. people are either diplomatic or indifferent. there is no hesitation that mounts the hesitation of taking a stand. so, who ever takes a stand is blindly followed.
that is why Gandhi was able to accomplish so much, and that is why today when someone decides to say " people of Maharashtra you have been wronged and inadequately represented and you need to smash the skull of the Biharis who have snatched your rights, we get the news bulletins that have decorated the newspapers these last couple of weeks.
is thinking for oneself the most difficult of chores? is it chore ? why is it so unnatural to know and have opinions? why is thought always dictated by another?
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