Dead! Yes, you read it right! You are dead! I am dead...we, as a race are dead! Dead and decayed! I write today not to complain, not to crib, not to vent my anger...but to vent my disappointment for not being able to do anything about anything! To vent my fear of being dead! Dead is what we are or what we are fast going to be!
How else do we justify a mother smothering her two-month-old girl child to death and stuffing her in a washing machine? A MOTHER! For heavens' sake! And we were being bothered about bus conductors, PT teachers, school staff, uncles, stepfathers, mother's boyfriends! A species where a mother kills her child for being born a girl... and we are still claiming to be alive? We are still sending beautiful "Good Morning" messages to each other over WhatsApp...We are still going out to watch movies...We are still going out to party and eat and drink and be merry!
"Well, you are getting a little dramatic" you might tell me...Life can't stop because one deranged woman behaves abnormally! And it hardly means the rest of us should give up on life and start mourning! But I don't mourn the dead infant. I mourn the mother if I can call her that, whose soul is dead! I mourn the dead souls of the two "teachers" who did not hesitate to satiate their lust by sexually abusing a 4-year-old child! I mourn the decayed soul of the man who chokes a harmless mentally challenged child by force-feeding her milk at 3 am in the morning! I mourn the man who ruthlessly opens fire at gatherers in a church for no real reason! I mourn them for they are and what I can be any day...after all, I am but a part of the same milieu!
Our souls are dead! We have become so hateful, so vengeful and so shallow in what we do, what we think, how we think that the soul can no longer be held responsible for our being!
We are all zombies...going about our work, our lives, our pleasures, our joys but devoid of any capability to actually feel any of it. How can the dead feel, after all! And we raise our angry voices wanting to punish "sick" "inhuman" people! Where did these sick inhuman people come from? From amongst us! We, the educated, ambitious, selfish race that is so proud of controlling nature!
Some insane thought makes me feel if this is nature's revenge on us...by making us more and more deranged, selfish and sick! Somehow, this entire human civilisation of today reminds me of Midas...the way his ambition and greed had made him lose everything he held dear, we are doing the same. And one day, even the air we breathe is going to be so full of filth emanating from our hateful and vengeful souls that we will physically fall down dead! The day the offenders, the ones giving verdicts, the judges, the victims will all fall down dead for the final time! Never to rise again...never to be able to hurt or kill again!
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Ramblings
You know, I am weird, at times extremely so, when I stare at people in busses or in public places because the face or the personality pulls me strongly towards it...I want to know what this person does when he or she is not playing the "role" of a "perfect whatever" that we are all expected to be. What does the person eat? What does he or she like to wear? What are his or her interests? But most importantly I want to know if a situation comes for him or her to stand up for something, would the person be able to do that? Because that is what we are missing nowadays, almost in every sphere - The culture of standing up for something, the culture of expressing an opinion, the culture of having an opinion!
Oh sorry, perhaps I am wrong! We DO express our opinion now...and we have a huge platform - the Social media! Use Facebook, use Twitter (Sorry I am limited to knowledge about just these two) and you will have a following that you never thought you could have, had you spoken about it somewhere!
Having an opinion is fashionable. You need to express your solidarity with everything from the Indian Economy to Priyanka Chopra's disrespectful dress while meeting the much revered Prime Minister of India. And we have to either be on this side or on that - there is no space for a moderated view of things.
In fact, expressing an opinion has never been easier! We have a huge list of topics ranging from economy to culture to movies to religion to just about anything under the sun. All we have to do is to select the correct category and then take our pick from a spread of "opinions" thereby determining our stand. If you are worried sick about the credibility of these option of "opinion" offered, rest assured. Each topic and their corresponding "opinion" are carefully prepared by specialist groups of people employed to offer the most comprehensive set of "opinion". Now since these are well articulated and supported by visuals and videos, they are sufficiently equipped to influence and convince us about the absoluteness of our choice.
So, we have to have an opinion about everything starting from Ryan International School to how handsome Justin Trudeau is! We have a say about whether or not Deepika Padukone should be beheaded for playing a role that is supposed to be maligning the image of a fictitious queen from some part of Rajasthan. We have a say in why Mamata Banerjee wore chappals while walking down to the Vatican while Mother Theresa was being anointed a saint. We have a say about whether or not Sonia Gandhi deserves to be a politician in a country she had internalised years ago. Hell, we even have a say about whether or not Rahul Gandhi is matured enough to be a politician!!! We have a say about how India could have played the Sri Lanka matches more tactically to manage and win all of them, without playing a single match in all our lives or never having stepped into a field. We have a say about how to handle the "enormous amount of black money" that has been generated thanks to DeMo(di)netization.
If there is one question that bothers me about all this "say" on social media, it is about the ability of regular people like you and me to "think"! We might all be running against time, but thinking is perhaps not so dependant on time after all! Could we actually think about "forming" an opinion, not picking one from a tailor-made set of options? And most importantly, could we stop being rigid about the "opinion" we select to the extent of being fanatically inclined to trash all other views. Could we actually try and be a bit more "open" to others' opinion? Could we try to be a bit more humane?
Oh sorry, perhaps I am wrong! We DO express our opinion now...and we have a huge platform - the Social media! Use Facebook, use Twitter (Sorry I am limited to knowledge about just these two) and you will have a following that you never thought you could have, had you spoken about it somewhere!
Having an opinion is fashionable. You need to express your solidarity with everything from the Indian Economy to Priyanka Chopra's disrespectful dress while meeting the much revered Prime Minister of India. And we have to either be on this side or on that - there is no space for a moderated view of things.
In fact, expressing an opinion has never been easier! We have a huge list of topics ranging from economy to culture to movies to religion to just about anything under the sun. All we have to do is to select the correct category and then take our pick from a spread of "opinions" thereby determining our stand. If you are worried sick about the credibility of these option of "opinion" offered, rest assured. Each topic and their corresponding "opinion" are carefully prepared by specialist groups of people employed to offer the most comprehensive set of "opinion". Now since these are well articulated and supported by visuals and videos, they are sufficiently equipped to influence and convince us about the absoluteness of our choice.
So, we have to have an opinion about everything starting from Ryan International School to how handsome Justin Trudeau is! We have a say about whether or not Deepika Padukone should be beheaded for playing a role that is supposed to be maligning the image of a fictitious queen from some part of Rajasthan. We have a say in why Mamata Banerjee wore chappals while walking down to the Vatican while Mother Theresa was being anointed a saint. We have a say about whether or not Sonia Gandhi deserves to be a politician in a country she had internalised years ago. Hell, we even have a say about whether or not Rahul Gandhi is matured enough to be a politician!!! We have a say about how India could have played the Sri Lanka matches more tactically to manage and win all of them, without playing a single match in all our lives or never having stepped into a field. We have a say about how to handle the "enormous amount of black money" that has been generated thanks to DeMo(di)netization.
If there is one question that bothers me about all this "say" on social media, it is about the ability of regular people like you and me to "think"! We might all be running against time, but thinking is perhaps not so dependant on time after all! Could we actually think about "forming" an opinion, not picking one from a tailor-made set of options? And most importantly, could we stop being rigid about the "opinion" we select to the extent of being fanatically inclined to trash all other views. Could we actually try and be a bit more "open" to others' opinion? Could we try to be a bit more humane?
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