He took a step, to unite his will
He walked the way to find the end
And it took all his life just to look for the thing
What he dread and what he had won
The spaces in between tried to swallow him
But he fought out his way he fulfilled his whim
There is no turning back for this warrior
He has taken his first few steps
Beware all ye mighty men!
Thousands of ideas crept into his brain
Like little spots of flame that fuelled his desire
And he would be cursed to spend his life, to fight till the end
But then he will know as the man who knew to fend
And all the people say "there is no one like him"
His mind is the great sun - the rest of them orbit him
There is no stoppng now for this collegiate
He has dropped the first ingredient
Beware all ye mighty men!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Now I'm here and then I'm there...
Every now and then we come across such huge words such as trust, commitment, love and friendship. What do we really mean by all these terms. We very so often use it with so much passion and voracity, yet when the time comes for the test we falter. We do not falter by a small step, but sometimes even give up the very basis of all our beliefs and start with an altogether new value-system.
Lets first talk about commitment. We as a culture and value-based society consider commitment as inborn and constantly try to pass on to the next generation its importance. We take it for granted that any decision is based on the belief that ultimately that is what is the holiest value to guard. Commitment in any relationship, be it family, friends, spouse, lovers or work is so important to us. The 'society' considers it a prmary requirement for the success of any transaction. We preach this with all our hearts and stare in disgust at anyone who differs in opinion. Yet we have faltered when the ultimate test was there right in our faces. Call it culture shocks or call it a blind-faith, but when we saw the Americans we slowly started 'modifying' our value system. Though I do agree that many of the changes were welcome and refreshing, one cannot deny that we faltered. We faltered to the degree that most of the things that were considered unthinkable are common place today. Changing jobs without any sense of gratitude, betraying friends and family for more personal gains, infidelity within acceptance of social norms and breaking of the Holier-than-Thou bonds of marriage have become part of our very own culture. So much so, that the much coveted teacher-student relationship in India is slwly beginning to weaken - the fault lying on both sides.
I am not here to question if the changes we have brought about to our lifestyle are for better or worse. The only point I try to make here is to question about how many times we asked ourselves the validity of the old system and new. Did we ever compare and then strike off what was wrong or redress it? Was it just blind aping or was it a well thought of change in attitude?
Well talking about commitment does make my point enough. It does show how much we compromise for comfort. Comfort not in the form of luxury, but comfort in the form of convenience. We are so used to the automated world of comforts, that our attitude has become such that we need an automatically changing value-system to take us through the path of least resistance.
After all our myopic eyes cannot see that the path of least resistance is the one favoured by destruction as well.
Lets first talk about commitment. We as a culture and value-based society consider commitment as inborn and constantly try to pass on to the next generation its importance. We take it for granted that any decision is based on the belief that ultimately that is what is the holiest value to guard. Commitment in any relationship, be it family, friends, spouse, lovers or work is so important to us. The 'society' considers it a prmary requirement for the success of any transaction. We preach this with all our hearts and stare in disgust at anyone who differs in opinion. Yet we have faltered when the ultimate test was there right in our faces. Call it culture shocks or call it a blind-faith, but when we saw the Americans we slowly started 'modifying' our value system. Though I do agree that many of the changes were welcome and refreshing, one cannot deny that we faltered. We faltered to the degree that most of the things that were considered unthinkable are common place today. Changing jobs without any sense of gratitude, betraying friends and family for more personal gains, infidelity within acceptance of social norms and breaking of the Holier-than-Thou bonds of marriage have become part of our very own culture. So much so, that the much coveted teacher-student relationship in India is slwly beginning to weaken - the fault lying on both sides.
I am not here to question if the changes we have brought about to our lifestyle are for better or worse. The only point I try to make here is to question about how many times we asked ourselves the validity of the old system and new. Did we ever compare and then strike off what was wrong or redress it? Was it just blind aping or was it a well thought of change in attitude?
Well talking about commitment does make my point enough. It does show how much we compromise for comfort. Comfort not in the form of luxury, but comfort in the form of convenience. We are so used to the automated world of comforts, that our attitude has become such that we need an automatically changing value-system to take us through the path of least resistance.
After all our myopic eyes cannot see that the path of least resistance is the one favoured by destruction as well.
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