Imagination
Once i crossed my teens, I wrote fewer poems, could concoct less number of tunes, paint less inspiring pictures, and hardly imagine.
The world conditions us. We change from flexible imaginative children into rigid, staunch, unimaginative people.
It obviously helps to identify with the world, do the things everyone does, think the same way as everyone.
But what about creativity. It dies. As it dwindles away, imagination takes away with itself the creativity of the human mind.
Most of us have rules such as:
You have to earn money. As much money as it takes to be jealous of a tolerable amount of other people. (some need to be in the top ten, some are ok with being middle class).
(to get some other rules replace the word "money" above by fame, power, beauty,etc.)
You have to fit into the society. (which means you usually believe in the same so-called god as your nieghbours, mostly your idea of being pious matches everyone elses, you have more or less similar opinions of everything, you bring up children the way society thinks you should, you have the same attitude towards charity, beggars, you think fashion is a reality, you think money is a reality, you believe that life started as an accident of chemicals, and we have no purpose in being alive save trying to get all sorts of things that make us happy, or do all sorts of things that make us happy, or do things and get things that a person like you should according to society).
My friend didn't know what marriage was, she didn't care. According to society, everyone gets married except nuns, so you must either get married or be a nun. Otherwise you're an outcast.
People are so conditioned sometimes that they don't have a mind of their own. They start behaving like they are part of a herd, going in the directions that other aimless people are going in. Someone accidentally does something different. People need to either support it or decry it, but everyone thinks of others first. What will the world think, what will your mother say if you did that? What will you tell your grandchildren when they ask you? No one thinks for himself or herself. People are selfless for the wrong reason - acceptance. People are selfish for all the wrong reasons too.
And among men and mice there are thinkers, who realise what is wrong and move on. If I were told to serve the poor souls that find hapiness in trying to fit in and surviving, I would refuse. Its such a humongous task, please I would like to be spared. I must sound like I have false pride, no I don't, I'm just unwilling. But here I am, fully aware that its the next step for me. We have to progress together, we have to be a team. Yes, we all have to come to a stage where each of us feels unconditional love for every other. Gosh, thats going to take a really long time to happen. But because it is makhtub I assume there is some way. God help us!
The world conditions us. We change from flexible imaginative children into rigid, staunch, unimaginative people.
It obviously helps to identify with the world, do the things everyone does, think the same way as everyone.
But what about creativity. It dies. As it dwindles away, imagination takes away with itself the creativity of the human mind.
Most of us have rules such as:
You have to earn money. As much money as it takes to be jealous of a tolerable amount of other people. (some need to be in the top ten, some are ok with being middle class).
(to get some other rules replace the word "money" above by fame, power, beauty,etc.)
You have to fit into the society. (which means you usually believe in the same so-called god as your nieghbours, mostly your idea of being pious matches everyone elses, you have more or less similar opinions of everything, you bring up children the way society thinks you should, you have the same attitude towards charity, beggars, you think fashion is a reality, you think money is a reality, you believe that life started as an accident of chemicals, and we have no purpose in being alive save trying to get all sorts of things that make us happy, or do all sorts of things that make us happy, or do things and get things that a person like you should according to society).
My friend didn't know what marriage was, she didn't care. According to society, everyone gets married except nuns, so you must either get married or be a nun. Otherwise you're an outcast.
People are so conditioned sometimes that they don't have a mind of their own. They start behaving like they are part of a herd, going in the directions that other aimless people are going in. Someone accidentally does something different. People need to either support it or decry it, but everyone thinks of others first. What will the world think, what will your mother say if you did that? What will you tell your grandchildren when they ask you? No one thinks for himself or herself. People are selfless for the wrong reason - acceptance. People are selfish for all the wrong reasons too.
And among men and mice there are thinkers, who realise what is wrong and move on. If I were told to serve the poor souls that find hapiness in trying to fit in and surviving, I would refuse. Its such a humongous task, please I would like to be spared. I must sound like I have false pride, no I don't, I'm just unwilling. But here I am, fully aware that its the next step for me. We have to progress together, we have to be a team. Yes, we all have to come to a stage where each of us feels unconditional love for every other. Gosh, thats going to take a really long time to happen. But because it is makhtub I assume there is some way. God help us!
posted by Vyoma at Tuesday, July 05, 2005
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