But you know what?I think humans tend to live lives with rose-tinted glasses, soldered on when your embittered parents tell you everything's not what its cracked up to be, and you'll never reach the heights of success that you want to. It is some sort of defense mechanism, to prepare us for the BIG, BAD world.
Hence, in retrospect, the only thing you see is the remastered,perfect,botched up image of a world that's not really all that great.Don't get me wrong...the world is awesome, but not as awesome as we would like it to be, so as to render some meaning to our purpose-driven lives.rainbows "in the good old days"---->
how they really were-->
See, the actual rainbow is pretty good.But insecure that we are, we always add a few inches more so that everything becomes unbelievably awesome.Being eighteen now, I hereby resolve to not blow things out of proportion.Period.You may tell me that I'm destined for a mediocre life. But hey, that's pretty amazing too.The fact that i can live, breathe, feel, hurt, cry, laugh...don't you see?It is worth living a "mediocre" life for.
Pessimism sucks. I've been a firm believer in the positive aspects of hating everything up until recently.Basically, I'm hoping I don't have to gloss over the sad parts of life, for everyone has those days.Just take it in your stride.
Here's to me not remembering the "good old days". Here's to me remembering the"pretty normal old days that I really enjoyed to a believable extent".As a friend of mine once put it, imperfections make us what we are...living, breathing humans.
signing off,
yours confusingly,
Mukund.
An excellent observation. We as human beings do tend to live in "our" little world. But what then is the real world? You say you don't want to blow things out of prportion. Then what exactly is the proportion you want to stick to. YOUR sense of an event maybe exaggerated to one person and understated to the next. I believe that everyone has their own unique way of perceiving the world. So at the end of the day, however much you may resolve not to, you are still perceiving the world through glasses. Maybe they are not rose-tinted but another shade peculiar to you. What can we know about the "Real" world when the only world we know is the one we perceive? And what I perceive will never be the same as what you perceive.
ReplyDeleteTouche, shobhana!Another day, another lesson.Point taken.
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btw, u are reminiscent of swami chin.
ReplyDeletemenon kutty...lol
I'm flattered. :-)
ReplyDelete"I exist because I think"
ReplyDeleteNo one can ever steal your ability to think ,so as long as you think , you are not leading a lesser life . Everyone has a pair of eyes but most people lack the lenses(as in the lenses needed to see "that" ) and in the remaining very few have the ability to perceive what they see . Yet is what we see the reality? I would put it this way " mortality is lost , when sense of reality is found " .
On the whole if not for our thought , the world does not exist , hence we might conclude that "everything is an illusion" but the strength of an illusion is the way it perceived ...
@shobhana: maybe we think that we see things differently , what if our thoughts are the same only in a different permutation ? By concluding that different shades show you different things , aren't we stopping ourselves from a "wider" perception ? After all a line can be tangent to a lot of circles :)
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