This post is dedicated to Buntu (a good friend of mine), it his idea, I am writing my interpretation of it.
When I was a kid, I was encouraged to be always Confident and Positive towards life. Have a good personality, be smart, have fun and live your life to the fullest. Thats how I grew up, setting up ambitions, working hard to get them, sometimes ending up across the line and most of the times, short of it. Then enjoying whenever I could, party, travel, hanging out with beer glasses on. Life was like a roller coster, ups and down, sky and ground. Carefree days, with heart warming friends, full of curiosity, jumping around, desiring to hump around. I was really a kid, not knowing where am I going. Life was cruising and I was growing.
Then came a point, I became conscious. A realization came and took all the curiosity away. In a while, all the childhood was gone. No jumping, not much of curiosity left, numbness is what surrounds. I started becoming more aware of the social set up. I started reasoning, every little thing. Why are people better to themselves, why are they nice to some people and not so to other. Why all of us are hypocrites, even though most of us hate hypocrisies, lies. Even though the curiosity was gone, hunger is still there. Hunger for natural tears and smiles, conversation about small things which matter. The longing grows and so does contempt about everything around.
Then, there is another realization, which says like contempt about everything you consider wrong or false, is not the way of living. Life is above everything, we cant rise above joys and sorrows, we cant find the truth, if there is any. We are in a train ride and our vagon stops at various stops. Some are known, some are not. And it is known, there is always beyond what we know. So, life is about the choices we make, the stops we want to get down. No stop is better in absolute terms, so even if you have missed a stop, there is another round the corner waiting to welcome you.
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For me, it's just a sense of surprise at the things around me; no comptempts. I am in a kinda stupor still,'is this all really happenning'? I think to think that one can not be above joys n sorrows is like giving up too early. may be there is a better reality, a higher truth. I don't even think there are any stations. it's simply a very long journey, u meet people, spend some time, sometimes u get a good seat, sometimes not and then somewhere along the line u simply evaporate...who knows
Its good that you dont have any contempt, I had.
When I said the life is above joys and sorrows, I meant that if we see around there are more sorrows than joy, like poverty, illtreatment, disparity. But, still it doesnt stops us from living our life to the full, atleast to me. eg, while going to a pub, I will come across many beggers, I might superficiously bad for them, but I still would like to have a good time wherever I am going.
Then by stations I mean, decisions you make in your life, to do things and skip also. So, doing something is like getting down on a station, I know not a very nice similarity. But, remember I am not a writer, just a geek.
Thanks for your comments. Btw, where do live in India ?
I don't have contempt only 'coz I have not accepted yet. Once I do, I hope to feel something.
Though I went way off track, I liked reading it.May be coz it sounded sincere.and interpretations are always going to be different for different people. That you bothered to write honestly was important.
Thanks for clearifying. I live in Pune.
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