As honest as I can be, I will be. I was born as a normal person in a normal household and like everyone in this world, I too try to understand what life is. As i breathe in it, the more I realize that we all walk that fine line of righteousness and try to separate right from wrong or say, desirable from undesirable.
Before I go into it further, I think I should read what I have written above as a reader. The moment I do it, the thing that pops up in my sinister mind is "Why the hell this guy thinks so much? Life is just a do it, forget it affair. " Well, I wish it was. Our brain, the difference engine is far too advanced to let go of things we do. Ask any person in his ripe age and the only thing he/she sheds more than the hair are the remorses. And the large things don't shape our lives, minuscule, small things do. I hope some thoughts here do trigger those impulses in your clockwork.
Moving on, I would illuminate my objective of my writing. When we start comprehending things in the world, we develop certain perceptions which are more or less permanent. These perceptions are due to our upbringing, education, surroundings, social circles and internet nowadays. These perceptions are hardwired into a person by the time the teenage ends and a metamorphosis occurs : metamorphosis of perceptions into Ideals.
We have the knowledge of the order of the number of stars to define the perfect ways of living, to have an ideal approach, to be simply happy, all tangling and contradicting each other. We have whole continents, countries and cultures with their native definitions for a 'good lifestyle', striving for perfection. But we see, the problems are everywhere and complications are innumerable. We don't have an inclusive encyclopedia to define a perfect life. It all boils down to what are your individual Ideals of living.
We often wrestle our conscience tossing our brittle minds between right and wrong. The Ideals act as the weights to balance our decisions. Some get them right, some get them wrong, both the decisions and Ideals. Let us see two examples :
I know a person in my neighborhood market. He is physically-specially-abled and a has a fairly large family to feed. He overprices the goods by a fraction. Now, unlike a robot and rather illogically, I buy stuff from him. Most people don't care to know or blithely ignore the known.
My boss is my mentor. He has taught me from scratch on how to work like a father teaches a child. I have immense gratitude towards him and cannot think any ill about him. One day, I find that he is involved in some fraudulent means of earning from the company. I have a chance to complain about him to the authority, remove him, take his place and earn the all important trust of the company. Fairly simple and profitable choice that is. But alas, what do I do? I quit my job and write a letter to him explaining that I couldn't see my mentor staining his dignity. He seemingly gets embarrassed, leaves shorty and changes for the better.
Such decisions happen sub-consciously as a result of the values I acquired during my upbringing.These small things do settle around in a beautiful patterns all around and make this world 'livable.'
We all develop such qualities of goodness and righteousness in different proportions and domains and are Idealists in certain senses. I am not a messiah who will rescue the world but I am an Idealist in some sense, like you guys, who wants to do the things the best way. We will have some tingling discussions over the period about what sort of conflicts one faces and their possible solutions and implications on our lives. I hope you find your chapters of life in these bits and fine tune those 'small things'.
Before I go into it further, I think I should read what I have written above as a reader. The moment I do it, the thing that pops up in my sinister mind is "Why the hell this guy thinks so much? Life is just a do it, forget it affair. " Well, I wish it was. Our brain, the difference engine is far too advanced to let go of things we do. Ask any person in his ripe age and the only thing he/she sheds more than the hair are the remorses. And the large things don't shape our lives, minuscule, small things do. I hope some thoughts here do trigger those impulses in your clockwork.
Moving on, I would illuminate my objective of my writing. When we start comprehending things in the world, we develop certain perceptions which are more or less permanent. These perceptions are due to our upbringing, education, surroundings, social circles and internet nowadays. These perceptions are hardwired into a person by the time the teenage ends and a metamorphosis occurs : metamorphosis of perceptions into Ideals.
We have the knowledge of the order of the number of stars to define the perfect ways of living, to have an ideal approach, to be simply happy, all tangling and contradicting each other. We have whole continents, countries and cultures with their native definitions for a 'good lifestyle', striving for perfection. But we see, the problems are everywhere and complications are innumerable. We don't have an inclusive encyclopedia to define a perfect life. It all boils down to what are your individual Ideals of living.
We often wrestle our conscience tossing our brittle minds between right and wrong. The Ideals act as the weights to balance our decisions. Some get them right, some get them wrong, both the decisions and Ideals. Let us see two examples :
I know a person in my neighborhood market. He is physically-specially-abled and a has a fairly large family to feed. He overprices the goods by a fraction. Now, unlike a robot and rather illogically, I buy stuff from him. Most people don't care to know or blithely ignore the known.
My boss is my mentor. He has taught me from scratch on how to work like a father teaches a child. I have immense gratitude towards him and cannot think any ill about him. One day, I find that he is involved in some fraudulent means of earning from the company. I have a chance to complain about him to the authority, remove him, take his place and earn the all important trust of the company. Fairly simple and profitable choice that is. But alas, what do I do? I quit my job and write a letter to him explaining that I couldn't see my mentor staining his dignity. He seemingly gets embarrassed, leaves shorty and changes for the better.
Such decisions happen sub-consciously as a result of the values I acquired during my upbringing.These small things do settle around in a beautiful patterns all around and make this world 'livable.'
We all develop such qualities of goodness and righteousness in different proportions and domains and are Idealists in certain senses. I am not a messiah who will rescue the world but I am an Idealist in some sense, like you guys, who wants to do the things the best way. We will have some tingling discussions over the period about what sort of conflicts one faces and their possible solutions and implications on our lives. I hope you find your chapters of life in these bits and fine tune those 'small things'.
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