There isn’t a reason to me, lost alone I’m fumbling,
Nothing with clarity can I see, at every step I’m stumbling,
Everything I have ever needed, you have made sure I have gotten,
Even if I haven’t succeeded, you have never let my spirit dishearten,
But I sit here miles away, and the times spent with you seem long gone,
And mom I’m really missing you a lot today, Dad I wish to you I could come home…
“Life is too fragile” I complained,
“With blots of disappointment it lies stained,
In the threads of joy lies sorrow engrained,
Anger and jealousy leave my heart pained,
With a burden of my own emotions I lie drained,
In hypocrisy my living days are feigned,
Why dear GOD me to this world have you ordained?”
“My son” HE said, “You have less to fear and more to rejoice,
For each passing moment holds a new choice,
A million of life’s questions that hold you in poise,
An ability you hold of hearing the clarity in noise,
Do you know not that us GODS fear your gift of hearing mortality’s voice?”
I stand on the road and watch the people pass by,
In their hordes they run I wonder why,
Why do we continue in this rat race,
Where the only thing different for all of us is our face,
Am I any different from all these mortal lives,
Or am I just another bee in the hive,
Why in this façade do we continue to pretend,
When we all know this life is coming to an end…
A soft breeze just blew through,
Touched me lightly as if sent by you,
It’s been so long since I’ve seen you now,
Yet when I close my eyes I see you in front of me somehow,
Sometimes I wish I could break all these walls between us,
Sit with you and talk all day without fuss,
I wish things would somehow again be the same,
Cause even today to me the wind still whispers your name…
Another step in understanding human relationships (or in popular parlance, love) Recently I have been meeting several couples and in my humblest opinion, they are most definitely wrong for each other. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t think of two people more wrong for each other. What’s worse perhaps is that I stand vindicated in the fact the two just can’t get along on most occasions and perplexed, I try to subjectively understand why and how is it that they are still together.
In the process I have tried all lines of logical reasoning from the initial phases of attraction to perhaps some other emotion, perhaps lust? And yet, honest to god, I couldn’t for the life of me understand why it was that they were a couple! So after a considerable period of mulling over this, I finally began to see what it was that made them click. For all this time, I had been analyzing this along the wrong lines. I had over-looked the simple fact that if it works, it must be doing something right…instead of looking at what was right, like all other typical humans, i was looking at what was wrong. Eventually, when I finally got down to analyzing exactly what it was that was making them click, I was witness to a few couples in crisis to finally come to terms with the reasons. They weren’t together because they were the right people for each other. For all I know, perhaps even they realize that they are not the perfect images that they might have sought for themselves. Yet, they are able to understand human relationships better than yours truly because they feel so strongly for each other that they can not only fall in love with each other’s faults but also have the strength and courage to stand beside each other and be strong in the each other’s weaknesses.
Love is a strange and strong emotion. Some find it in just one person whilst the others struggle to find it in all the people they meet in a lifetime. And love isn’t about the right people being together, it’s also about all the wrong people being together for all the right reasons!
Have you seen the latest furor in the news due to the politics of regionalism? It isn’t something new as we all have been used to something of this sort over our lifespan. I am gonna make a very controversial statement here. I think it is good that we aren’t united as one and that we have divisions within society.
Confused? Agitated?
Yes, I said it. Nonetheless, in no way does this mean I condone the poilitcs of division more so the politics of division being played by the so called leaders of our nation (read the THACKERAYS) I say division is healthy because it means that the society is divided between groups of divergent thoughts. Different thoughts harbored by different sects of people only means that they are working towards a common goal along different paths. Which path is better, only time would tell but if different paths did not exist, society as we know it would not exist.
So what does this mean? Do I condone the fact that we should think of ourselves as belonging to different sects on the grounds of religion, regionalism or whatever else there is to it? No, like I said, we work towards a “common” goal and that for us is in the present context is India. Yet, to contribute to her progress, we must take different paths. Different paths do not mean that we are at each other’s throats and the only way we make progress along the path we are is by halting all progress along the other paths that our fellow citizens have chosen. If I belong to one state, it does not mean that I do not let another state make any progress nor does it mean that I do not let them pursue the path I have chosen. On the other hand, if another’s path is better than mine, it does not mean that I quit my path and hack the other out of his path to use it. What is required is for us to both to work towards a confluence of paths so as to be able to move forward together.
And no, we cannot stand together as one because we aren’t one, we are many. We can stand together as the many that we are by accepting the fact that we are different and that we each have our own views. Society is a market. The market cannot develop unless there is competition. The competition is futile if it isn’t healthy. We all are players in the market, we each have our own goods that have their own USP. How well we are able to utilize the strengths and work on the weaknesses is upto us.
Please do not be a counterview to proving I am wrong by saying we must act as one and we are Indians first because that line of thought in itself is rooted in the idea of divisionalism (is there a term as such? If not, you read it first here! Hehehe… ok, getting serious again…) because we are after all, humans first or perhaps living organisms first? I hope you understand what I am trying to say here. Division is a necessity to foster different ideologies and instead of nipping an idea in the bud, I always think it best to allow it to die a natural death. The idea of regionalism or religion isn’t a very bright idea for divisions but it would be wrong to condemn the idea of divisionalism. The further we make progress, the further we understand our differences and learn to utilize the differences to our advantage. As one, we cannot stand but if we accept the many that we are, I reckon we couldn’t fall…
