Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Matters Of Consequence (A Reflection of the Problem)

Night sleeps in the arms of day, a new path unfolds again; time to make a move. To seek for the roots; to look for Matters of Consquence (bemused?).

We - the breathing, thinking, speaking, hearing, pampered kids of nature - have this incessant capacity to ask for more. So much passionate are we to outperform our own wants; an unquenchable thirst that drives us towards the 'Things' that are too abstract to key-in.

But these are the unconquered valleys of human psyche; where words flounder, no echoes of the vocal vibrations can be heard, only the silent assassin - Desire - enacts the 'Pied Piper' on whose inebriating tune we are forced to dance.

As a 'real' kid, for us rose was rose (not a botanical subset), chocolate was chocolate (not a calorie kit), street monger was another human (not a man without worth). We always looked into the matter as the matter of fact, not for matter of consequence. And then we 'grow up' (not literally!) and start doing cause-effect analysis, cost-benefit studies to come with the list of consequences that any action will provide, which will help our desires to prosper. Is this love or just another wave of lust? Was that compliment or flattery? Can that person act as a useful part in my dream-machine? These questions start to stand tall on every trail we tread upon. Result - we somehow get what we have strived for but don't get what's needed.

Classic case of Disillusionment...

(Solution In Progress)

1 comment:

rashi_pratibimb said...

That is why it is said, "Life is a journey, not a GUIDED tour".

And at the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity; that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world...

As for the solution....life goes on...!