Real Hospitality!!
Like real Generosity is giving something that you actually need, real Hospitality is waiting on someone when you actually don’t have time!!
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The Right to Live & Life!!
My lunch table discussions are getting interesting day by day. At times they get heated also, touching on sensitive subjects, subjects on which people have beliefs!!
Societical Laws, being nothing but the conditioning on which one has lived all his life. Laws that tell us do certain things in certain ways and not to other things. But, no-one has the sure understanding of these laws. Some arguments hide behind the context of culture. Yet culture is nothing but tradition, that happens because it has been happening.
Following something on mere beliefs, without reasons or logic. Everything need not be logic, but has to be reasonable.
As long as my actions are not affecting the other, I should be allowed to whatever I want to, again repeating, as long as they are not affecting others. I should not be forcing something on the other.
Everybody agrees on the above statement, but where people don’t agree, is the realm of ‘affecting others’ as this is very perspective.
Most of these decisions are arrived by majority of the current mindset of the people. For the majority is what is deemed as the society. But what about the people whose thoughts are not aligned with the thoughts of the majority.
In the previous days, they had two options, either to forcibly align there thoughts with the society or to move out of the society. The later being called a soceitical outcast. (This happens in present day also, but in groups of animals and not humans.)
For the present day human being, he has no option to go anywhere else. For the society has defined and covered, the whole planet earth in its range.
Now, the present day human, has to believe what the society in general believes, by force. But since the society is forcing me to do something, is it not violating my rights?
The overall mindset of the society being whatever is against it, is wrong. Anyone who questions the laws of the society is bordering on being wrong.
For sometime, my thoughts have been hovering around the subject of right and wrong defined by society or by majority. And everytime my thoughts venture in those directions, I always get reminded of the classic case of Galileo Galilei.
Is it always a fact that what ever the majority says is right?
Are we suppose to follow whatever EVERYONE decides, with no deviations?
If the mind is conditioned to think within a range, it will think within a range, within the boundaries in which you have defined it. I have discussed this before, in this post.
There is, actually, a lot lot more, but I guess your patience to read would have subsided along with my patience to write.
PS:The question of commonly believed societical notions, and there deviations have been greatly discussed in my favorite author, Doestovsky, prominently more so in his book “Crime & Punishment”
A Book by its Cover!!
Jeans or No Jeans, formals or no formals…the debate is not only about colleges, it is one step forward in corporates. The lunch table talk, on whether the corporate offices should have a dressing code, or what does appropriate dressing mean or for that matter, what is formal and casual dresses and who has placed these terms in the first place??
How does my dressing indicate my quality of work?? Does it also mean that the more beautiful/handsome of the lot are better performers??
Why does everyone preach
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” and then do exactly that!!
What happened to the real stuff of which people are made up of??
Why do we always get cornered by notions of generality, of notions which other people have thought of, and we follow it blindly without giving a thought on to what we actually think.
Why do we always have to play with rules that others have defined. Why can’t, for once, we make our own rules??
What happened to opinions??
Formals, non-formals or casuals, I remember the real purpose of clothes to be only to cover the body!!
PS: I know, there won’t be many with my on this argument, but for once, I have noticed, people who don’t give much thought to their dressing sense actually give more thought to something else, something which matters, and that would be WORK!!
Indifference??
The enormous ability to give up, something which may have a huge consequence turns immaterial. Does it allow to forget or it only procrastinates the storm that is about to reach. Or, is it mere selfishness, for it is inconsequential only if it does not affect me, directly. Indirectly it may, but as far as I am away from it, it doesn’t. It seems like another dimension, where I do not want to be. Am I running away?? Maybe!! Or rather, I may already be away. Indifferent!! But indifference is a saintly quality, is it not?? I once said,
…besides, no one likes Saints…
But now I ask, is it worth the condemnation??
Helplessness, might be an excuse, but unwilling, sense of not doing anything is something else. I am not on fire as long as the fire does not reach me, even if it is beside me, I am fine, as long as I am sure it won’t reach me.
But what do I do, if or when it reaches me??
Will I still be indifferent, insensitive or I will run away, like I am now. Will I be able to run away ?? Only until,may be, the conscience within me rises again,and deplores me or reproaches me, until I decide to go back again, and fight my own fight.
Until then, it seems, I am just an observant, sitting in my cushy seat, being as if I am not the part of it!!
Insanity!?
If my bike could talk, it would screaming that it has ended up with a jerk!!
It was a colleagues marriage some 500 odd KMs. The plan was pretty simple, start Saturday night in train, reach morning, attend wedding and reception and return by bus.
And then insanity strikes!!
Two guys, two bikes, 34 hours of trip out of which 22 hours were spend riding the bike. 940 KMs that was to and fro, surviving on 4-5 hours of sleep. It doesn’t get wackier than this!! Oh, wait!! I forgot the occassional rain. A perfectly sane plan, consumed by insanity!! Insane more for each of those 22 hours was ridden in night.
But I tell you, nothing beats the stillness of night, the open ground, with the moon smiling in between the clouds and the wind blowing across your face. The sense of being nowhere, but going!!
The best part of biking is, the mind completely shuts down, it stops churning out those consuming random thoughts and it is simply the road and you!! Ofcourse, there is numbness in my rear, which sets in every now and then, but I guess, thats a price I can live with!!