"Man" as a race has certainly overcome all the hurdles that occurred in the path of unconscious evolution but when it comes to conscious evolution, i think we still have a long way to go.
Sitting by the window yesterday i saw a very normal scene in which a mother bird was feeding her four young birdies. The "food" was in her beak and the moment she brought her beak close to that of small birdies, they all impatiently start to jump in order to grab it. Pushing each other so that they can get it first, was their motto and during that process the slowest fighter got pushed towards the edge of the nest. In the next glance there were only three left. Now this story can have two morals one that "survival of fittest" suggested by Charles Darwin is the fact of life.
And the other moral of the story is just learn to "Wait". I mean if they could have just waited for their turns to eat. Anyways may be this is what makes us different from "animals". We have consciously evolved ourselves and imbibed in us the habit to "wait". We "wait" in everything, if we don't then we are not cultured, we are not sensitive we are not "humans" as also claimed by few.
We as humans are seriously so curbed in "it has been there so you also do it" psychology, that even to think about these walls becomes a cardinal sin. As a result we loose our natural instinct. We become scared of humiliation that we might have to face. In short we become what actually everybody want us to be.
The "Wait" psychology starts since childhood (remember those days when you are not suppose to ask for cookies until and unless the host offer them... and that not just offer them persistently force you to have them. you have to wait). Little you grow and then you have to "wait" for your turns as now you are grown up. Girls have to "wait" for proposals ( thanks to those feminists who said "why to wait girls you can propose too"). Boys have to "wait" for the right moment. When there is a fight wife in ego "waits" for husband to come and apologize, while husband "wait" for the wife to come and plea. What an amazing "wait"!!!
But now I am frustrated, I don't want to "wait", i want to flow to wherever life takes me. I want to enjoy about not thinking what others might think. Is it too much to ask? Am I getting out of the boundaries of this conscious change? But whatever it may result in, is it not worth giving it a try? Millions of questions inside me and no one to listen ( OK! OK! Enough drama ). I want this "wait" to change.
As Barack Obama said :
" Change will not come if we wait for some other person or for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek ."
Life is short and if we "just" wait then may be it will never happen
ReplyDeleteand if we "don't wait" and act in haste without developing and evolving over-selves getting equipped with right knowledge and skills(at-least most important ones) because we didn't wanted to wait or "just to show" others that things can be done differently,we take a step without any preparation or lack of it ,then it might end in disaster and will also demoralize not just us but all those thousands of kids out there who might have been preparing to take that big leap, coz then u will be presented as the bad example
And on the other hand if by sheer luck u succeed and others don't have luck neither preparation so obviously they are bound to fail and you will be remembered as "THE ONE" who did it, but at the cost of being alone there and may be taking most people,who could have followed that path away from it, which might have be the best if only certain amount of preparation has been added to it.
So what do you think is the right thing to do?
Do watch this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/
And i forget to mention that though its wanting in philosophical context its full of expression and emotions.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for the next one
in the 1st comment there is a 3rd possibility also but its not the right time to mention it,will "wait" for your answer and then will tell u.
ReplyDeleteDear harsh,
ReplyDeleteWhat my point here was to tell people that we in the process of conscious change have changed so much that our natural instinct to act have also been destroyed. The human behavior is tampered under the name of so called cultural, social, ethical, behavioral evolution. I am not saying that changes are bad but what i am saying is that changes are good. Those changes which make you think in new direction give you new perspective not the ones which you are following just to follow.
I think you didn't got my point I am neither against change nor against evolution, what I am saying is that its very easy to say something as heavy as "been destroyed." or "name of so called cultural, social, ethical, behavioral evolution"
ReplyDeleteIf you read about political social cultural philosophical theories,evolution of civilizations,(u have a great book with you which you can read, http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552)
then you will realize that the same question was there at that time also when according to us they were primitive or ancient.
you will realize whether its society culture religion ethics or anything they can never be static or destroyed they always evolve
The same questions about say metaphysics were asked by the pre-socrates which we ask even after our so much of technological revolution.
Point is that change is constant whether "you/we/other" want it or not
So shouldn't we be more concerned by "action" n making the right "choices"?
Because nothing is ever destroyed
Some dialogues from 2 great movies(not including Matrix Triology):
If you never make a choice, anything is possible. (Mr. Nobody)
destruction is a form of creation.
(Donnie Darko even our ancient texts say Tandava reflects this philosophy)
Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions.
Its a never ending discussion and we are too little to answer such questions which has been going on for centuries.So I rather "choose" to "wait" impatiently for the next stop(post) in this journey.
Very deep thought !! the person to the wait !!
ReplyDelete''The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.” ― Dejan Stojanovic