Sunday, April 5, 2020

Life as we know it

People talk about meaning of life, things like why we are here, what's the purpose of our existence and our connection with the universe, they are rightful and true in their pursuit of higher place of existence from where they can scrutinize life more closely, but i'd say these people, these higher beings are rare. For most of us mortal beings, the intricacies of our life are more intriguing and more engaging than the wild chase towards something meaningful.

Most of our lives follow a set pattern, there would be high and lows, spikes up and down but over the long run it all averages out, some of us are highly successful either professionally, personally or in relationships, so there is spike in one's life graph that settled one at higher plane of existence for that particular parameter, doesn't matter -  one will still experience high and lows relative to that plane and it doesn't end, the tides will never settle down, some call it beauty of life, some call it vileness but yes that's life.

Most of us go with the flow, some peacefully while others kicking and screaming, but most of the time we follow the path set out for us by others, knowingly or unknowingly. One thing I've learned about us is we hate making decisions, we're not born decision makers, we have to learn it and most of the times the tough way, we make wrong decisions all the time and most of the time we're too proud to accept that we went wrong, we being taught to be optimists, taught to think that whatever happens happens for good, vehemently defend our decisions with the power of argument bestowed upon ourselves by the creator. Most of these decisions doesn't affect our lives in drastic ways so they are harmless even if we get them wrong on consistent basis.

In the middle of all this there are times in our lives when we have to take crucial decisions, the decisions that will decide what plane our life will settle on, some of us delay them as long as we can, some on the other hand, rush through them while the others let others take these decisions for them, very few are wise enough to take a measured approach to decision making, but from experience even they aren't any better. We then spend our entire lives grappling with the outcomes of these decisions, struggling to understand where we went wrong but defending them at the same time, people irrespective of being successful in one or many spheres of life still have regrets, still have their struggles and we think about these all the time. This is our life, we're too busy with life to think about it.

So what in the end, are we all, or at least most of us are doomed, incarcerated by our bad choices and destined to be unhappy, might be but there is light at the end of tunnel, we humans are excellent at adaptability, we learn to live, we learn to be happy whatever the circumstances, our happiness doesn't depend on our height of the plane of our existence or the success we have achieved in life, it depends only on us whether we want to be happy or not. We're all the same, sailing in same boat and breathing the same air, what differs is our attitude and perspective in life. This is what keeps us going through best of the times and difficult times like these.

Friday, April 8, 2011

The Begining

"There is some good in this world and that is worth fighting for". The preceding line summarizes my ideology and should be fitting beginning of my new blog. My intent with this blog is to write about the ideas I have about various subjects (that's why eclecticist) and how they can change the things in radical manner. Some of these ideas may be wild and some totally crazy but that is the purpose of writing, to develop the ideas which are good and eliminate the ones which are not so good. What I don't want to do with this blog is to keep posting about the happenings in my life, however entertaining that may be, if I have to do that I will start another blog.
One way of presenting the ideas is to embed them in a story and that is something I am really interested in. May be in the due course of this blog's progress, I start doing the same because that is where I want to go. It really amaze me how an interesting story makes it easy for an idea to reach out to masses.
Another interesting activity I want to do in this blog is the book review. I like reading and I like talking about the books I have read. I think writing about the books makes us realize what we have learned from the book and helps others to decide whether this book is worth investing time.
This was just an introduction of what you might expect in this blog. I might add some more categories depending on what goes in my mind.