Food for thought

So here I am making up for the 4 months of not posting. Lets look at the life of the average Joe. He lives in a house, has a job to make ends meet, sends his children to school and watches porn when his wife is not around, follows many different social norms (religion, God, atheism, Facebook etc.). He wakes up, brushes his teeth, has a bath, gets clothed and leaves for work, lives in drudgery for the ensuing 8-14 hours, comes back, grouses about the same and doesn’t know what to do when Tur Dal prices touch Rs. 100.

This Joe worked his ass off, or probably not, in college and caused a truckload of worry to himself and his family, friends. My friend, Bill Waterson has spent a lifetime trying to educate us all of this of which I can quote but one for lack of space

Consider that, this Joe 300 years ago during the Renaissance. He didn’t have the mobile phones to damage his brain cells causing brain cancer, the television and computer damaging his eyes, the need to go to work everyday and work for someone else all the time feeling inferior and yet trying to establish oneself through things as important as resumes. Yes, neither did he have the medicine to make you live up to 80 years or the power to travel the entire world in a day.

This man was born and he was taught by a mentor, most probably his father or a neighbour on all matters regarding science, math, geography, religion and the like. Then, since money was not as much of a driving force, he CHOSE what he wanted to do in life by spending a couple of years figuring himself out. Then he lived his passion and had children who did the same. Most probably, he did not see the icy vastness of the Antarctic or did not taste the spices of India but bless him , he lived.

For us, it has become almost impossible to conjure up a utopia where we live, everyday hence putting the Self Empowerment guys out of business. Good Riddens! Where people question everything, right from why we wear clothes to why we have developed the concept of money to why we exist. Where a child is not made to bend his brow due to a bag but where his smile is allowed to choose whether he wants to be taught Biology anymore.

I could go on trashing religion and banks and So, what would you rather have, a gaggle of world “leaders” arguing over reversing the damage coupled the marvel of information technology or no Google or Nokia or Xerox but being a couple of degrees higher on the Maslow’s pyramid.

William Wallace said, “ Everyone dies but not everyone lives”.