Inspired by my favourite poet John Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", my first ever trash in English. Trash breads more trash and hence the subsequent trash......
Its all over, ruined and burnt,
Here is he, bruised and hurt;
From the grey winter skies to the great oak trees,
Everything around him said, "Its all over knight at arms".
Numb with pain, he sees nothing, nor hears anything,
All he longs for are the bright blue skies and the birds singing;
As the sting of the gusty cold wind takes over,
Reality sinks in and he starts looking for cover.
With nothing but the great white ocean in sight,
He hovers into the darkness of the winter night;
With all but one thought in his mind, "The loss was not merely physical,
But it was that of a part of my soul".
Wednesday 31 December 2008
Tuesday 30 December 2008
Have we forgotten what it means to live!!
Well the recent crisis in my life has prompted to me to pen my ideas down after a long time. After a lot of introspection, I have realised a few things about what I want, about my philosophy and way of living. The heart drenching soul searching that ensued, made me realise the short comings of the mordern objectve oriented way of living. Though I am still not very sure, what it takes to make myself happy, I am convinced of the futility of pursuing this current day self-centred ideology and philosphy of living.
The human brain has come a long way with time and so did human thought. We have built a grand civilization. We have made significant breakthroughs in all possible fields which required human intellect. From mathematics to medicine, from literature to art, from philosophy to music, the breakthroughs we have made are humungous and breathtaking.
But I believe it is "relationships" that defines an individual. When I say "relationship", I mean relationship with everything, from animate to inanimate, from trees to humans, from mountains to animals, and so on and so forth. Any relationship is bonded by emotions, which actually have not undergone any evolution, just that the way they are expressed may have changed. So in some sense, though man evolved a lot in the physical front, he hasnt changed in the psychological front. He still remains violent, insecure, jealous and greedy. Generations of war and crime give ample testimony to this fact.
Since every relationship is bonded my emotions it involves pain, and in this age of fast life we search for quick solutions. Bouyed and carried away by the material success, we have been trying to implement logic, our only tool with which we see this materialistic world, which built our great material wealth, into our relationships.
Happiness is that state where there is no conflict in the self. There is conflict, the moment there is thought and logic. Logic and happiness cannot exist together. Pleasure is all what we can percieve through intellect and logic. Logically emotions hold no value, so none of the relationships make any sense unless there is obvious pleasure involved. Persuaded by the desire to have pleasure, we are very quick to run away from any relationship which starts giving pain. How far and how long can one run from one's true self ?
From chopping down the wonderful forests to killing wonderful animals, every deed of man has been self centred and selfish to the core. Even now the whole commotion about conserving forests and protecting animals is all for our own gain, not beacuse we hurt them. We have lost the empathy towards our fellow beings. We keep missing the bigger greater picture. We keep forgetting that human intelligence is limited and we can never relaise the great interplays between various aspects of nature. By downplaying our emotions, we ar eonly distancing ourselves from mother nature.
On a perosnal note, I have realsied the futility of my various idelogies and philosophies and for once, though in the face of adversity realsied what "K" really meant, when he famously said "There is no evolution of the human psychic."
The human brain has come a long way with time and so did human thought. We have built a grand civilization. We have made significant breakthroughs in all possible fields which required human intellect. From mathematics to medicine, from literature to art, from philosophy to music, the breakthroughs we have made are humungous and breathtaking.
But I believe it is "relationships" that defines an individual. When I say "relationship", I mean relationship with everything, from animate to inanimate, from trees to humans, from mountains to animals, and so on and so forth. Any relationship is bonded by emotions, which actually have not undergone any evolution, just that the way they are expressed may have changed. So in some sense, though man evolved a lot in the physical front, he hasnt changed in the psychological front. He still remains violent, insecure, jealous and greedy. Generations of war and crime give ample testimony to this fact.
Since every relationship is bonded my emotions it involves pain, and in this age of fast life we search for quick solutions. Bouyed and carried away by the material success, we have been trying to implement logic, our only tool with which we see this materialistic world, which built our great material wealth, into our relationships.
Happiness is that state where there is no conflict in the self. There is conflict, the moment there is thought and logic. Logic and happiness cannot exist together. Pleasure is all what we can percieve through intellect and logic. Logically emotions hold no value, so none of the relationships make any sense unless there is obvious pleasure involved. Persuaded by the desire to have pleasure, we are very quick to run away from any relationship which starts giving pain. How far and how long can one run from one's true self ?
From chopping down the wonderful forests to killing wonderful animals, every deed of man has been self centred and selfish to the core. Even now the whole commotion about conserving forests and protecting animals is all for our own gain, not beacuse we hurt them. We have lost the empathy towards our fellow beings. We keep missing the bigger greater picture. We keep forgetting that human intelligence is limited and we can never relaise the great interplays between various aspects of nature. By downplaying our emotions, we ar eonly distancing ourselves from mother nature.
On a perosnal note, I have realsied the futility of my various idelogies and philosophies and for once, though in the face of adversity realsied what "K" really meant, when he famously said "There is no evolution of the human psychic."
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