“People who always make you laugh, are often the ones who have gone through a lot of pain.” All who believe this is somewhere very filmy. Common people, a person who makes you laugh can also be purely fun, jovial never knowing what exactly the “P” of Pain is. Is it always necessary to think that the things that are emotional are only right/good or that the people who sacrifice are very great? The right or wrong in our society is always measured with the degree of emotional content or the suffering one endures. Should we blame Ekta Kapoor’s Saas-bahu serials for our mindset or is it our society’s mindset that she runs her business on?
I do not claim that I work like a machine with absolutely no emotions, but I also believe that we cannot let ourselves be overwhelmed for every dam thing in life. What do you say? After all Practicality is important too. If you give it a proper thought everything in our society revolves around emotions. You need instances?
- We cannot digest a movie if there is never a happy ending.
- India V/S Pak!!! Emotions flow more than the runs or the catches in the stadium.
- Consider, we hear about a murder of a woman, we will begin speaking law, police and arrest. When we hear that she is survived by her child aged 2, every justice comes to a halt and emotions overflow.
Accept or get damned but the truth is in India, somewhere the right and the wrong are somehow deeply inter-connected with the kind of emotional impact . All a politician will have to do is give a speech about his troubled childhood to get votes to win him a seat. A movie star has to talk lovingly of his family or about the people who gave him work to have another million followers on twitter. I am huge fan of Sachin and recently after his 100th ton he made a statement- “I am not god” and this managed to make headlines in almost all the news papers. I ask- “Don’t we all know that?” A Rape case doesn’t make sensational news in this country unless there is sad story (which strangely entertains us public) to accompany it. All the spiritual Gurus have a very sad childhood to brood upon and the general public believes those to be God. Even before a tsunami hits or earthquake strikes journalists will be all over trying to get stories of the lost friend or family member than let the public know as to what is the immediate action taken by the government? There are hundred other instances where emotions would overflow and we as public turned out to be just dumb spectators. Just one example- There was a telecast on TV 2-3 years back of a place in Tamil Nadu where a police officer’s leg was severed in broad daylight and everyone just stared at him until he met his death. None including a minister who later claimed to have been worried for threat to his life as a reason helped him despite his pleading for help.That was talking of India on the whole, I bet when you try and get into your own small world these issues will prevail. I wonder why it matters so much to us as to what others think. How is it ever relevant as to what another random person from the society would expect you to do? Even though our country has given us all the fundamental rights, do you think our society allows you to use them effectively? No!!! Don’t all of us have the right to speech? How many of us have the courage to talk what we actually feel like, without being bound by the already inherited values of considering what another would feel like or react to it? How many of you do actually figure out as to which career did you want before being spat on your faces by bosses? How many of you all have sacrificed your love in worry of non acceptance by family and still leave a miserable life?
I believe that after one point we all have one person to please and that is ourselves, because no matter how happy the society is or how proud you family members are, you will still fell a vacuum deep within! It is true that along with every other person in your life, you love yourself too. Isn't it simple for us to follow that each one of us differ with respect to our thought flow or reaction to a similar situation or IQ level or physical structure or skin color. Similarly, at times our thinking may not match with the people around. So, why create a ruckus out of it, judge him/her, and judge their upbringing? All we have to do is not impose our societal values and leave them alone.Why can’t things be simple enough that instead of only preaching we actually follow in LIVE & LET LIVE!!! Why is it considered wrong to love ourselves?Keep it simple,HPK!!!
