LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
Life is a roller coaster ride, It is God’s gift to humankind blah blah blah . Everyone has heard a lot of it and I am not going to repeat it for you. What I seek to put forward here is not a concept of life, but a brief intro to what it is all about. Some get a high on life, some seek different other mediums to get high. Some like to be in control, some revel in losing it .Some enjoy living, some live to enjoy. So it’s virtually impossible to generalise anything.
Think of life as a box of crayons. They all pointy are lined up in order, bright and perfect. But ultimately they will all gradually give way to being ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps missing their wrappers and smudged with other colours. Think of the crayons as the human race and then interpret it. Sometimes life just seems unbearably tragic. The pressure to conform along with the pressure to stand out is to forces from opposite directions pushing us deeper within ourselves. You are not a part of anything until you conform to the society in general, and you are a virtual nobody if you don’t stand out, you will just remain another face in the crowd. The catch 22 situation in which we find ourselves daily just creates another web of complexities for us to get out of. Think of it this way, is there any law to say that we have to match our socks with our clothes or for that matter wear matching socks. There isn’t, but still we do it, for there is an unsaid rule saying, the society does it, so must you. Why should there be so much pressure on us to give in to what the society demands, why can’t we live life as we want to!!
I think it is fair to say that half the human population is disappointed to be there, but is resigned to existence. It’s a tall claim, but if you look at the world around you, you will realise that it’s not that hard to believe after all .We don’t value art, we don’t value beauty; all we value is a world of ruthless efficiency. There’s no pleasure in creating things, and no pleasure in having them. Half the world’s treasures are stored in vaults of private collectors. I say we are denying our own humanity, our lives getting drearier than richer. Today the importance of attaching numbers to everything we do has made our life too mundane , the take of the experts on this phenomenon , “ if your numbers go up , it means you’re having more fun “. Is that what you want your life to be? Don’t you feel like shouting out aloud “what on earth am I doing here on this beautiful day? This is the only life I’ve got!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”, but if you do that society will tell you to chill.. Take a few deep breaths and cool off with a glass of water. Coming to think of it, why shouldn’t they, you are not the only special guy around, there are millions going through the same grind and coming out of it unperturbed. But then again what they don’t realise is that you are a special guy after all , not because you screamed , but because you chose to give words to what you felt , which none of the others had done .
Feel proud of you actions , and learn to speak your mind , because I’m sure at the end of it all , you would like to look upon your life as one lived according to your terms , not others. One of enjoyment not compromises. A life well spent, not one which had a feeling of emptiness associated with it. I’m sure one would want to die in bliss , one in which he/she would have at least the achievement of living the life exactly the way he/she wanted to live it , doing the things he/she wanted to do , at the time when they wanted to do . I’m not saying you should give in to your every impulse , but then If you are intelligent enough to understand what I’ve written , I would say you are intelligent enough to decide what’s worth the time and what’s not .
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