Sunday 20 May 2007

Give 'whom' a chance?

Peace is a dangerous passion to have. Paradox? Remotely. If you are obsessed with the idea of peace, you are making enemies with those who do not want peace. And to the incomprehensible things that people do to destroy peace, killing you will hardly add anything. It will not matter to them. Now you know why it is dangerous to want peace? It's not that destroying peace is any safer, but then, it is supposed not to be, because you have to and should be paying for destroying peace, in kind. But should wanting peace be dangerous? Whether it should or not, I do not know, but I know that it IS. Gandhi was killed. Do you want peace? The first agreement you need to come to is you will have to give away your piece of peace. And it’s not always about killing, and not about world peace either. Sometimes you seek peace with your friends, your family, and the same rule applies. Wanting peace is dangerous. Isn't it? Therefore, to do justice to your passion for peace, it is essential to have the courage to see it destroyed. It's that tough

Monday 14 May 2007

Serving Time

What does the prisoner lose, and keep losing for all his term in the prison? Freedom? Yes,
but isnt he going to be free after the term? What is he losing then? What is he serving?
What is the lack of his freedom bound to? TIME, isn't it? He is serving time. A time he will
lose doing not a thing that counts toward the progress of his life, toward the well being of
himself and his people. It is the penultimate punishment for the most heinous of crimes in
the world, the ultimate being denial of the right to live.
When it is considered to be such a big loss to have lost time, why do we waste time? Why
don't we take a step back to think where we are going, are we moving at all, and in what
direction? We are serving time, just like a prisoner, in the precise sense of imprisonment,
with the only difference that we have chosen to serve time. There is hardly anything more
pathetic than this. This is the cause of every impression of worthlessness and sorrow. The
absence of a sense of improvement, the ceasing of evolution.
When you cannot utilize time to take yourself into a better state than you were, it is
unconsciously obvious to everyone around you that you can never benefit or guide
others--that you can not serve the basic purpose of being social.
I do not mean to sound patronising, and I AM sincerely trying to mind my language. Here, I
have just tried to point out one of the reasons that I feel are behind the want of social
acceptance that many of us suffer from, and how it is linked to the way we use our own time.
I only mean to ring a bell.