** Thoughts have just been spilt! There is utter randomness in this piece of write up, you may choose to ignore this post. Its my sheer frustration taking absurd shape.
Well, Its been quiet a while since I last posted! Is it that I am too busy with work that I have no time to post?, Is that i am tied up with life that I have no time for self or is it sheer laziness?
Well I still don't have an answer... While I ponder , there are bubbles of unconnected thoughts that strike the mind.
No! Its not the related answers for the question I started looking for!
Randomly I hit many thoughts,
Why is earth such a beautiful place to live in? Who created it?
God!? Science says Big Bang! but hold on!
Whats the reason for Big Bang? Who or what was behind Big Bang?
Well where did the concept of God come in? We have been all the while in total faith and belief that the person up above does exist in same existence as ours!
Well why is that we cant see him/her? Whats the power?... now its goes unconnected!
What is power? electricity? no! more than that? Qualitative? Quantitative? who was responsible, well we all know how it gets generated! Thanks to the human mind we know how to measure.... May be not completely!
who can define infinity?
I suddenly spurge to India... What about it? Well I am an Indian! So what ?...there are 1 billion+ fellow Indians... No Its not about that...
Its about the people who live in the country and still and not satisfied!
A mode of frustration sets in now! my heart just wants to spill all of those thoughts into words with no connectivity but sheer randomness I start!
I cannot sit through the conversations! - The lunch/dinner/coffee table where people rant about the country they belong to, they live, they survive, still see the sun , moon and the stars! breathe the same air as others...
Well what is that they complain about?
It starts at a very basic level of roads in India, the potholes in the roads?
I now wonder to think, have they ever for once thought how as children they must have enjoyed the joy of seeing a filled pothole after heavy rain?
if we never had potholes we would have never known what a puddle is? We could have never enjoyed our childhood splashing rain water accounted in the puddle, sailing the paper boats made from newspapers and pamphlets!...
so why is potholes and narrow roads such a big issue today and not yesterday, when we grew up in the same lanes playing galli cricket! Lagori! didn't they at that time wonder the roads and by lanes to be narrow? why are they complaing now? Because they have grown up? seen the greener pasture of other lands ? I still don't seem to get answer!
Their next latent crib is issue about infrastructure!
one say over the coffee table " Our cities infrastructure is so bad! There is absolutely no quality of work! See "XYZ" country. Boy , the city is so clean, pure and neat! and our CM says he would transform our city like XYZ! Does he even know what it takes to reach there? even in another 50 yrs we cant!"
So I wonder what is stopping you to try? and what the hell does this person want?
Well ! I know XYZ country is clean, neat and pollution free! what about it now? Does this person know what it takes to build a country which has a heritage of 5000+ years? ruled by thousands of kings and queens and how much it takes to stand together as a country and brave the odds??? Does this person have the faintest idea how many muliticultures exist within this one country? how many ethnic groups we have? Number of existing tribes in our forest? Well so what if the rest of the world think we are snake charmers? still we do earn our bread butter! we still do lead a happy life! we still do have families who care! we still have the same sun, moon and the air! We see day just the way rest of the world see it!
Yea, now the conversation slowly drifts to power! I mean Electricity! The next person now picks up this new idea of electricity! and here goes the rant " hey guys. know what there was no power yesterday evening! its so frustrating to have no power"
Yea! seconds the other! " all the work gets pending, u know i missed the sass bi serial yesterday because of it!"
Now its my turn to think... So what if there is no power? did we not eat because there was no power? did we forget to sleep? so what is the whole issue here? my thoughts jog backward how as a kid i really enjoyed these unscheduled power cuts! it only meant long chats with appa, amma, cousins, aunts and uncles till the power was restored, we sang our way to glory with antakashri's, word buildings, GK quiz... I didn't miss any fun, I was part of it all through!
why is that a power cut today such a big issue? are we so dependent on electricity? cant we survive?
Well answer is we certainly can! Just imagine how people survived centuries back with no power all day and night! I am certain we still can do it if need arises.
Is sass bi serials so important in one's life that you really forget to look beyond it??
Well these rant continues with political carnage, pollution, weather etc etc, I already know I am choking myself and cant afford to sit there any longer! Not that I didn't air my opinion! its only that people fail to look beyond!
Folks, all I want to convey is simple! " To find true happiness, look beyond imperfections! , you will certainly find it!" True Happiness does not exist in Luxury, State of Art Technology... It exist in each heart bundled as moments of bliss, experience it everyday, all through!
Just see and count all the good things we already have!
Instead of being happy and blessed, we rant and crib....Can you do something about it? change the system! Please go ahead and do! we support your cause!
Else if you are helpless like me, at least please don't turn down my country! Remember you still live here, you still breathe here! its your country, Its our country!
We certainly owe quiet a lot to existence and nature!Lets stay blissful!
Well written :)
ReplyDeleteAgree with ur take on "True Happiness".
now, why did this remind me of Rang De Basanti ??
ReplyDeleteNo Clue Vachoo... pl enlighten..
ReplyDeleteGood attempt... because It's not easy to put all the random thoughts that we get every day...while I agree with your take on true happiness and the cribbing nature all of us have... some people realizes that and at least try to change it like your post... the others crib all the time.
ReplyDeleteI wrote something very recently for one one my future script, I am just posting a abstract of it which can be linked to your post....
I think there is kind of comfort zone that most of us human beings have or choose to have ... they neither take their chances and let others to take chances... they follow those who taste success and bitch those who fail.. I name them as 'second handers' .. these are the ones who choose to 'be' rather to 'become'
@Pavan
ReplyDeletethought provoking statement there !
Everyone cannot "become" so they choose to atleast "be" and earn some self respect. Going by your words i see more than 99% of this world filled with "be-ings" who inspire someone to "become". who is what... i dont have time !
@Ranjini
Liked ur "beyond imperfections" thing. very true.
I used to play marbles (GOLI) when I was very young. I got this "GOD" thoughts when i used to look at a marble. It looked like Earth and I used to wonder if God is playing marbles.
wow....a good patriotic thought i must say!!......and yes.....akka...u are more of my type....i hate people who come to me and tell abt other countries and praise abt them......all i say is, they are also humans, and so are we......we all have common human tendencies like activeness, laziness,honest, corrupt,caring, carelessness, etc etc etc.......even people in those country have it.....people see only one side of the city, and hear one side of the story......if we see properly we can realize how better we are than them!.....which country is totally perfect???...all have their own weakness due to physical, biological , economic conditions.....and some say in front of my house(NAME CENSORED) "Foreigners are more civilized, polished".....ghanta!!!!.....i think so she, oh i am sorry, that xyz person dosent know when india was blooming all across the world and had empire stretched till cambodia and prosperity was high at its peak, world's first universities were running, the so called FOREIGN COUNTRIES were fighting as tribes as barbarians!...lol....it was our time then, now its their time....the longest period of an empire rule was estimated to be GUPTA age also known as golden age was stated as 250 years.....everyone should be aware that the so called USA, UK, FRANCE, etc monopoly on the world just 200 years ago...one day it will come to an end!...and that will be the most heart breaking points for people so called Indians and say "foreign is awesome"....true story!
ReplyDelete@bali. I am not condemning any country. The world is a beautiful place to live. All I am trying to tell is look beyond imperfections of mankind and you will find true happiness.
ReplyDeleteall i am saying is.......as shri rama said in 7,00,000 BC...."Janani janma bhoomi-sha swarga da pee garee ya see"......u have gone to soo many trips, soo many places all over india.......10 days 15 days 1 month ok.....later any person on earth will feel, oh i have to go to my house......i have to eat ANNA-SAARU!....this is the one feeling everyone has!...what i say is develop that feeling at start, feel proud of where u are...then happiness follows u!....true story!
ReplyDeleteVery well written and thought provoking article, but wonder if it will be just an another article that will receive many cheers & claps and later collect dust.....
ReplyDeletehey,
ReplyDeletevery nice thought put in a simple concept ...
gr8 writing ranjini