LIFE AS IT IS


LIFE AS IT IS

Way behind the herd of some, way ahead of the rest. Blurring the line between pessimism and realism as well as realism and optimism. Having the faith and questioning the existence. Fetters and freedom. All exists simultaneously. Running miles to cover a step or being at inertia to cover miles, all at once. Loving the mere existence and hating everything about it, all at the same moment. What is it?

It’s the paradoxical conveniences and consequences of every moment we blink, every breath we take, every time heart beats and every morning you wake up alive. What happened? Life happened. Feel good about it or question why the hell it happened? For that we should know what’s the alternative? Should we believe in the existence of heaven and hell? If yes, how do we know where were we? Life exists in between the pleasantries of hell and heaven. It’s such a comparative study. I will be grateful to the Almighty if I have been promoted from hell to earth or else deeply regret my sins, which I will never be able to recall. Life is not just about being alive for the sake of it. It’s a roller coaster ride, sometimes high, sometimes low and sometimes you hit the nadir, from where all you can see the infinite darkness. At that point every sweet talk about how great the life is and how lucky we are to be born, seems cheating to the basic concept of realism. Yes, life never said it would be unbiased or fair. But a little warning would have been deeply appreciated. We do have a large warning sign over a packet of cigarette.

What is your deal brother? Why you sound so gloomy, dull and pessimistic? I would like to defer. It’s not gloomy or dull, it’s just real. Better be thirsty than chasing a mirage. It’s so amusing that people believe in certain rituals written down by a bunch of smart skulls and deny the rest as per their convenience and brand others as hypocrites. Modern era is driven by constitutional morality over religious. But who will decide the definition of “being modern” or even a basic query, is being so called modern beneficial at all? What is the assumption here? Fore fathers were dumb and we are smart? Remember, time changes and somebody else is going to replace you.

So, what? What is your point? My point is why are you running? Why are you denying your own identity? Going back to the state of nature and saying we are being modern and civilized? Instead of rectifying the mistakes of men, encouraging women to commit the same mistakes and acquire the moral high ground and sense of equality? Demeaning everything that our culture and ethos stands for and painting everything with the same brush, putting up the spectacles of a man made book and judging everything even if you have no idea what it means? Thanks for judging me as a conservative. I am glad that I am away from this madness and anarchy. Somebody said, even anarchy can have order. How? And if it does, what’s the need of anarchy at the first place? This universe is not random and to survive peacefully, we need hierarchy, rules and order in the society. Isn’t this the reason why we created society? Why we went into a “Social contract”? Philosophers like Hobbes and Locke believed in “Social Contract’ theory. Even though they had different theories about why we went into it and how the state of nature was different.

What do you want brother? I want peace. I want happiness and all I can see is chaos, burden of survival and existence. Who am I supposed to be? What is the purpose? Why is pessimism more real than optimism? Why a smile is costlier than a drop of blood? If life is tough, why the population of earth keep on increasing leaps and bounds? If life is easy, why nobody is happy? People keep complaining about the rest of the humanity and yet forget to reflect upon their own flaws. Everybody is perfect for themselves and yet we live in a highly dysfunctional and illusive planet, called “Mother Earth”.

Look within and you will see light, light of hope but there do exist darkness. It’s a constant tug of war between the light and the dark. Why do we symbolize dark with evil or bad? Isn’t the existence of darkness which gives meaning to the presence of light? A candle in day light doesn’t make any sense.
Life surely isn’t fair and everybody doesn’t get everything. It’s the hope that keep this earth revolving. Not knowing the future acts as a boon as we keep chasing the mirage, no matter what. Happy journey brother !!!!

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