What runs in my mind, what i want, is nothing more than an illusion of what i want the world to be. If it weren't for this quality which we all have, a quality of expecting expectations from things we do, this wouldn't have been such a big deal, but the problem is - we do. some of us want a new dog, a new house, want to get married, want a relationship with that "someone", want money, want friends, want peace - the list keeps on going; and its not that we all have only ONE want, each of us 6.5 billion people have more than one.
To different people, the world appears in a different way. What is "defined" as sane in one culture is completely preposterous in another - i mean, i always thought girls/women with sleeveless clothes are more un-traditional and more open, hence to the liking of several of my peers. Hmmm, now picture yourself in a world filled with yellow sand everywhere, with very little or no electricity, with white clad men wearing turbans walking around, in what the world calls Afghanistan, those girls/women are not that acceptable anymore now are they?
Anyway, i'm beginning to drift. What is it we want from this world? To live comfortably? To earn money? To be happy? Its funny we have these wants, because though we know the harsh reality is that one day we wont be here anymore, whether it is because of old age or cancer or the next world war, WE WONT BE HERE, and yet there are these things we seek, these things we start each day hoping we would get "somewhere". This is exactly the same that most religious books preach. It wont get inside our heads now will it?? It cant, for our heads are SO intricately wired that every attempt to thwart this want of "wants" will delete itself by default. Our brains almost treats it like as though its a virus, and an automatic antivirus software detects it and throws it out. So though we know that we are temporary, though we know that what we want and get is lost anyway, we still pursue these, which isnt that funny now when u come to think of it in a different perspective.
A human mind is about selfishness, a friend once told me. All about it. Just that one quality about us makes us so pathetic, and yet so human. We are all here for the immediate thirst quenchers, the more immediate results are what we look for. The obvious choice between a coke and warm water to quench actual thirst would by the coke by most. And even IF we realize it at the time that the former would actually dehydrate us, we still overlook that very conveniently. The immediate satisfaction got by the coke is a lot better than warm water, and SO WHAT if we get obese, SO WHAT if we dehydrate.... SO WHAT? Its better to live a life satisfied rather than not. Right??
Maybe this blog help you visualise things differently, maybe u are offended, maybe you agree with whats in this blog, maybe you just like to read :-), whatever this has done unto you, i donot regret, FOR THE TIME BEING. What i have written above is not fact, but can be looked more upon as an opinion. To which some people will agree to as SO RIGHT, and some partially, and yet others completely against it - This is fact. To satisfy everyone is mission impossible, and its not like in the movie where it becomes possible. I sure hope the reader is not bored by what i have entered here, since this is a product of my sheer joblessness, and would diplomatically apologise to those who are. ;-)
TAKE IT AS YOU WANT IT. Until next time, bye bye.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
What runs in my mind is nothing more than an illusion, of what i want the world to be. If it weren't for this quality which we all have, a quality of expecting expectations from things we do, this wouldn't have been such a big deal, but the problem is - we do. some of us want a new dog, a new house, want to get married, want a relationship with that "someone", want money, want friends, want peace - the list keeps on going; and its not that we all have only ONE want, each of us 6.5 billion people have more than one.
To different people, the world appears in a different way. What is "defined" as sane in one culture is completely preposterous in another - i mean, i always thought girls/women with sleeveless clothes are more un-traditional and more open. Hmmm, now picture yourself in a world filled with yellow sand everywhere, with very little or no electricity, with white clad men wearing turbans walking around, in what the world calls Afghanistan, those girls/women are not that acceptable anymore now are they?
Anyway, i'm beginning to drift. What is it we want from this world? To live comfortably? To earn money? To be happy? Its funny we have these wants, because though we know the harsh reality is that one day we wont be here anymore, whether it is because of old age or cancer or the next world war, WE WONT BE HERE, and yet there are these things we seek, these things we start each day with hoping we would get "somewhere". This is exactly the same that most religious books preach. It wont get inside our heads now will it?? It cant, for our heads are SO intricately wired that every attempt to thwart this want of "wants" will delete itself by default. Our brain almost treats it like a virus, and an automatic antivirus software detects it and throws it out. So though we know that we are temporary, though we know that what we want and get is lost anyway, we still pursue these, which isnt that funny now when u come to think of it in a different perspective.
A human mind is about selfishness, a friend once told me. All about it. Just that one quality about us makes us so pathetic, and yet so human. We are all here for the immediate thirst quenchers, the more immediate results are what we look for. The obvious choice between a coke and warm water to quench actual thirst would be the coke by most. And even IF we realize it at the time that the former would actually dehydrate us, we still overlook that very conveniently. The immediate satisfaction got by the coke is a lot better than warm water. SO WHAT if we get obese, SO WHAT if we dehydrate.... SO WHAT? Its better to live a life satisfied rather than not. Right??
What i have written above is not fact, but can be looked more upon as an opinion. To which some people will agree to as SO RIGHT, and some partially, and yet others completely against it - This is fact. To satisfy everyone is mission impossible, and its not like in the movie where it becomes possible. I sure hope the reader is not bored by what i have entered here, since this is a product of my sheer joblessness, and would diplomatically apologise to those who are. ;-)
TAKE IT AS YOU WANT IT. Until next time, bye bye.
To different people, the world appears in a different way. What is "defined" as sane in one culture is completely preposterous in another - i mean, i always thought girls/women with sleeveless clothes are more un-traditional and more open. Hmmm, now picture yourself in a world filled with yellow sand everywhere, with very little or no electricity, with white clad men wearing turbans walking around, in what the world calls Afghanistan, those girls/women are not that acceptable anymore now are they?
Anyway, i'm beginning to drift. What is it we want from this world? To live comfortably? To earn money? To be happy? Its funny we have these wants, because though we know the harsh reality is that one day we wont be here anymore, whether it is because of old age or cancer or the next world war, WE WONT BE HERE, and yet there are these things we seek, these things we start each day with hoping we would get "somewhere". This is exactly the same that most religious books preach. It wont get inside our heads now will it?? It cant, for our heads are SO intricately wired that every attempt to thwart this want of "wants" will delete itself by default. Our brain almost treats it like a virus, and an automatic antivirus software detects it and throws it out. So though we know that we are temporary, though we know that what we want and get is lost anyway, we still pursue these, which isnt that funny now when u come to think of it in a different perspective.
A human mind is about selfishness, a friend once told me. All about it. Just that one quality about us makes us so pathetic, and yet so human. We are all here for the immediate thirst quenchers, the more immediate results are what we look for. The obvious choice between a coke and warm water to quench actual thirst would be the coke by most. And even IF we realize it at the time that the former would actually dehydrate us, we still overlook that very conveniently. The immediate satisfaction got by the coke is a lot better than warm water. SO WHAT if we get obese, SO WHAT if we dehydrate.... SO WHAT? Its better to live a life satisfied rather than not. Right??
What i have written above is not fact, but can be looked more upon as an opinion. To which some people will agree to as SO RIGHT, and some partially, and yet others completely against it - This is fact. To satisfy everyone is mission impossible, and its not like in the movie where it becomes possible. I sure hope the reader is not bored by what i have entered here, since this is a product of my sheer joblessness, and would diplomatically apologise to those who are. ;-)
TAKE IT AS YOU WANT IT. Until next time, bye bye.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Wells of what the traveller seeks.
This is my version of what i see..
Love is a very subjective and vast issue. Nearly all definitions of it hold good, for it is such a thing that any definition of it would be like describing the the need of air and water to any man/woman. Some people have more facts, some have more 'emotion', and yet some others have scientifically studied facts in their respective definitions. Anyway, this is my version.
The world of love is like a large land filled with 'thirst quenching' wells. As a traveller, we all, all on earth, move in this land of several wells. Some of us thirsty, some of us already at one/more of the wells quenching our thirst; and some others who dont want to quench their thirst, and yet others who arent thirsty at all. Then there are those who want to spoil water for the sake of it. After all, we are individuals and have independent wants. Picture this land with all kinds of people walking around searching / wandering, some afraid of wetting their feet, some jumping into wells with joy, without thinking twice.......
Now, each of these wells have a different character in the water they offer - some are completely thirst quenching, some not, some even poisonous, BUT - all of these qualities are perspective dependent. Some wells are large, some small, some able to quench thirst of those travellers more efficiently than others, and some which are deep, but offer water SO sweet, u wont find it anywhere else.
What do these wells have anything to do with LOVE?? well, now comes the linking part of this blog. Each of these travellers is us - some wandering around, some not interested in quenching thirst, some not thirsty at all, some looking desperately, some totally giving up looking for that one bit of water that'l quench their thirst for eternity. what is this thirst? The thirst is the same thirst we all have - the want to love.
Alright, so that is the travellers bit. What and why and where do the wells come into play? These wells are exactly those we look for - those we seek love from. Some of us look everywhere for that perfect one to come along, that well where their thirst gets quenched the best. Some of us are tired and dont wanna look any further, and jump into something we dont like, hence the water that doesnt satisfy our thirst.
This one i like best - Some of us are so mad about the water in a particular well, that we either dont realise how deep it is, or we dont realise that only a mirage is seen. And we, being crazy, jump in SO HARD, that we fall and hurt ourselves SO BAD, that it becomes very very difficult to get out of that well. :-) and when we do get halfway out, we slip and fall in again. and finally when we do manage to get out, we get so afraid to jump into another well, regardless of how thirsty we are, that we dont try again in a long time, and stop looking for water altogether.
I liked this above situation best because that was what got me thinking in this "WELL" theory. something that got into my head and realised it can be applied to ALL situations.
So goes my 'theory' about wells and love. Not much it is, i know, but i left it so to allow for interpretations by the reader. (not much to interpret eh?) This, being my first ever blog anywhere on the internet, is in a sense special - so I would like to dedicate this to ALL who encouraged me to write stuff about everything (into books), and to ALL who in any way contributed to my learning of English. :-) UNTIL NEXT TIME, CIAO.
Love is a very subjective and vast issue. Nearly all definitions of it hold good, for it is such a thing that any definition of it would be like describing the the need of air and water to any man/woman. Some people have more facts, some have more 'emotion', and yet some others have scientifically studied facts in their respective definitions. Anyway, this is my version.
The world of love is like a large land filled with 'thirst quenching' wells. As a traveller, we all, all on earth, move in this land of several wells. Some of us thirsty, some of us already at one/more of the wells quenching our thirst; and some others who dont want to quench their thirst, and yet others who arent thirsty at all. Then there are those who want to spoil water for the sake of it. After all, we are individuals and have independent wants. Picture this land with all kinds of people walking around searching / wandering, some afraid of wetting their feet, some jumping into wells with joy, without thinking twice.......
Now, each of these wells have a different character in the water they offer - some are completely thirst quenching, some not, some even poisonous, BUT - all of these qualities are perspective dependent. Some wells are large, some small, some able to quench thirst of those travellers more efficiently than others, and some which are deep, but offer water SO sweet, u wont find it anywhere else.
What do these wells have anything to do with LOVE?? well, now comes the linking part of this blog. Each of these travellers is us - some wandering around, some not interested in quenching thirst, some not thirsty at all, some looking desperately, some totally giving up looking for that one bit of water that'l quench their thirst for eternity. what is this thirst? The thirst is the same thirst we all have - the want to love.
Alright, so that is the travellers bit. What and why and where do the wells come into play? These wells are exactly those we look for - those we seek love from. Some of us look everywhere for that perfect one to come along, that well where their thirst gets quenched the best. Some of us are tired and dont wanna look any further, and jump into something we dont like, hence the water that doesnt satisfy our thirst.
This one i like best - Some of us are so mad about the water in a particular well, that we either dont realise how deep it is, or we dont realise that only a mirage is seen. And we, being crazy, jump in SO HARD, that we fall and hurt ourselves SO BAD, that it becomes very very difficult to get out of that well. :-) and when we do get halfway out, we slip and fall in again. and finally when we do manage to get out, we get so afraid to jump into another well, regardless of how thirsty we are, that we dont try again in a long time, and stop looking for water altogether.
I liked this above situation best because that was what got me thinking in this "WELL" theory. something that got into my head and realised it can be applied to ALL situations.
So goes my 'theory' about wells and love. Not much it is, i know, but i left it so to allow for interpretations by the reader. (not much to interpret eh?) This, being my first ever blog anywhere on the internet, is in a sense special - so I would like to dedicate this to ALL who encouraged me to write stuff about everything (into books), and to ALL who in any way contributed to my learning of English. :-) UNTIL NEXT TIME, CIAO.
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