Monday, November 26, 2007

The War inside!!!

Today, on my way back from my field tour, as the sun went down and the world got engulfed in darkness, it got me thinking yet again on something that has been plaguing me since some time..

Happiness and sadness..Good and bad..light and darkness..all the things that have a duality in existence..

Does the absence of one thing mean the presence of another automatically? If there is an absence of light does that mean darkness is present? Or is it something else? Isn't darkness a non-entity? There's nothing that is darkness..it happens because there is no light.. Can there be darkness where there is light?

Noise and Silence: Is silence an entity in itself? Isn't it a phenomena that happens because there is an absense of noise? We can induce noise but can we induce silence? Do we not have to take away the noise to instill silence?

On the other hand can we say that happiness exists when there is absence of sadness?
It isn't really true, is it?Absence of happiness doesn't make a person sad or vice-versa.

Why is a person happy? Why another sad? We say that it is the different facet of the same coin. You get what you need and you are happy. Your need remains unsatisfied, you're sad. Who defines the need? For some it is power, for some money, for some it's love, for some just some other need.

Who decides what is good and bad? You say there is inherent and universal goodness and positivity which is accepted by everyone..ok..so why do we not follow the heart? Why so much of lies and hypocrisy and deceit? Why hiding behind a facade that isn't the reality? How do you say break the rules when the rules are the result of a society?Which of the rules are meant to be broken and which are not? We are pretty sure breaking traffic rules at peak hour isn't a very intelligent thing to do, is it?

Who decides that killing a man at the border makes you a hero and killing someone on the streets because he's violated you in some way make you a murderer? Who decides that a physical relationship before marriage is the ugliest thing to do and after the official sanctioning of a mangalsutra it's the way of life? Who decides that living in a palatial house and wearing Armani is materialistic and living in the pavement and going without food which is more of a compulsion than a choice , is not? Why loving someone is good but owning it is bad? Why feeling sad is good but shedding tears is unmanly(Or womanly???).

i have no answers..muddled thoughts and a direction..i do not know if i'll find my answers..

Maybe, i'll know when it's time..