Man, as per his
nature of constantly evolving being has evolved very nicely within itself and
with its environment, hand in hand and today it has so much within his reach
that was just unimaginable decades before. But, do we really have evolved for
so much better and is life so easy and better for us now than it was ever before?
And the more you think and explore this question, the more you tend to
understand, why the situation at the core level of every human being is more
deplorable than ever. Why we are running so fast towards decadence and why as a
collective bunch we are becoming more and more dull, predictable and synthetic
just like the food and all the things we ‘enjoy’ today and this whole scenario
just becomes like one of those puzzles in which you have to compare two almost
similar photographs and look for some missing article in one of them, and once
you see it, it is all the time in front of you and you try very hard to make
other people see it, but till they don’t see it they would never believe that
it can exist.
Why I have totally lost all hope in the idea of any
collective change or betterment is because our basis for it is so flawed as the
very first thing that can let people aspire for a collective change is
education, which is not at all a process to gain knowledge, and it is not since
today, it is since the time when grading system and degrees were introduced in
the education system. So the only base which could provide knowledge or
betterment in group dynamics is nullified and converted into a race course,
sometimes a ‘sophisticated’ one, the other times, pure gutter. It is just breeding
horses and slaves who will one day get a job, and Knowledge? That could have been an endeavour in Gurukul not in
today’s ‘real’ world, where we spend more than twenty years of your life
totally clueless to become someone who will spend the next thirty five years totally
clueless.
We just don’t experience anything the way it is supposed to
be because if you put even a strand of thought in those experiences, one can
understand how hollow they are. We don’t even enjoy our food the way it is
supposed to be, we don’t ever go to a restaurant just for the good food,
dressing up real good, and photographs and chatting with friends, well chatting
all men proving who is the alpha male, and women counting the number who are
trying to prove it to them, all this seems more important. In a party a menu is
as good as many dishes it has, nobody cares that most of it is going to be left
over or used for days to come which just kills the flavour, nutrition and mood
of it. The noblest profession in this world that is of farmer is a lost call.
You can understand the condition which is today especially in the sub continent
by the fact that farmers have to commit suicide and nobody really cares. But
hey, we have got our nice restaurants, with regular food in expensive chinaware
and awesome selfies and we are trending on social media, see we can create
happiness for ourselves today.
We take photographs not to capture the moments we can
cherish, but we can use the perfect light, angle, location and some ten of
those amazing filters and appear beautiful to ourselves and the people around
us, so what if it is not real. We are the champions of virtual world today, and
so what if superficial beauty is anyway a temporary thing, it doesn’t matter as
it won’t last for eternity. But we don’t want experiences that will last for
eternity because that will mean we will have to start living in present because
only a real experience, lived and felt for present without any baggage of past
and without any pretence for future is really eternal.
Many of us listen to particular music and songs, read books,
watch some film and enjoy any other art because it is trending. Seriously, we
think we can get anything from it because it’s trending? Really there is no
need to say about it any further. Since our birth to our deaths, we spend the
whole lifetime for the sake of others, because that is what we are told. Have
better marks than the rest of them, dress up properly than the rest of them,
talk in a particular way, in a particular language like the rest of them, and
get a ‘good’ job like the rest of them, without really knowing how your job is
doing anything for you, yourself apart from the monthly pay check. Yes there
can be more to it than just your monthly pay, and no it is not added benefits
and insurance policies. First of all it is knowing what your company or
workplace is doing in the larger scheme of things, and a more appropriate and
rather straight to the face question would be what you are doing in your
company, or will do for the rest of your life and will that make any difference
even in what your company is doing? This is really a big question for our sub
continent youth which they are not going to ask, collectively. Throughout the
western domination of the world, first they had Afro-Americans for their fields
and plantations, then they added Mexicans and other immigrants to the lot, for
their industries and now they have our suit wearing, English speaking engineers
for their IT industry. And you know what is common in all those who worked for
these giants? They always liked their jobs and thought they were doing better
for themselves.
The common denominator of all this is that we just condition
ourselves so well to get satisfied with the hollow, temporary experiences that
even the idea that all the things that we do and enjoy can be felt more deeply
without pretences and baggage feels alien to us.We will intoxicate ourselves,
have drinks with friends because we want to enjoy with them, but will never ask
why it gets so much harder to enjoy their company without being intoxicated? We
will smoke pot, snort coke, pop in acid (LSD) pills, go in to the state of
trance, why? Hey, it’s cool and fun plus, the big daddy (Hollywood) said so.
And we brag about the state of trance we were in. Yes we do, we the cool ones,
we brag about the mental state in which the conscious meets the sub conscious
and all the experiences in that period are a whole within themselves. But no
that’s not what we were talking about; we get high, and laugh and listen to
trance music, that’s our trance dude!
We are so scared to
think that any mindless activity which will keep us off of thinking appeals so
much to us, because if we start to spend time with ourselves we might get to
know ourselves and that might turn out to be a collection of just these hollow,
temporary experiences, where our laughs, our conversations, our touch, our joy,
everything might have come with a need, a need to make a mark in social
circuit, a need to get noticed among friends and not just plain, sheer joy of
these experiences. Because you know you just can’t get those from those people,
because they are no different, if they were, they too won’t need to escape what
you too are escaping. But one thing we just can’t see is that when we will see
how hollow this all is, we can’t be free, but then some clues might lead to a
few experiences, which were totally free and only then we would cherish them
the way they ought to be cherished, and they might set us free, free to only be
with those people who will let us be free, not with those about whom we
complain so much that we always need something extra to be around them, but
still we tell ourselves everybody is flawed, what’s their fault?
It’s not that since I am rambling about all this stuff so I
don’t do all this, there is a reason why I always use the term “we”, but yes as
I mentioned above, it is one those clues, once you see them, you just can’t
“un-see” them.
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