Kahin to hogi ho - Jaane Tu
There are no easy lunches.. You have to, absolutely must take a stand on matters close to your life and heart.. I despise the spineless morons who classify their incompetence in standing up for themselves as 'vagaries'.. How dare they insult the very characteristic by which I, the highly opinionated ass but vociferous enough to state them, identify myself with..
You need to take a stand on right and wrong.. There are grays (in other people's books) but how the hell do you classify everything in the 'gray category'.. That's just wrong.. When you put your heart on your sleeve and see it burn it hurts.. Like hell too at that.. Whats so gray about that? When someone crosses the boundary and infringes on your space it irks you.. Sometimes devastatingly so depending on circumstant.. Where the hell do you see the gray in that? When the basics in life are outta whack and are volleyed up in the air because of aught else doesn't that break you down? Don't you need to take a stand on that? How long do you need to stand behind pillars calling them your strength when instead all they are, are these autocrats who treat you like an automaton? Where the hell as the adage gone - Live and let live? When you feel strangulated don't you choke for air? Doesn't that unnerve you into reacting?
But you need strength in character to take a stand.. No matter whether it makes sense to the world now as long as you are lucid about your ideology and approach you need to stand by them.. Look at Aamir on Narmada.. I re-felt my delinking of kinship to Arundhati Roy after reading it all over again in the latest issue of Andpersand.. How dare she.. Look at Pooja & Mahesh Bhatt - I don't care about the way they conduct their lives - but their common stance approach on drugs and alcohol simply puts them on an elevated status of intellecte.. That too the way they can say it out loud in a public forum.. At least it made some people realize the importance of how they are on the path of self-destruction at least for a minute if not more..
I recently got into an argument on ego and self-pride.. Self-preservation stems from the self-pride being under assault.. How can you get away by calling it something as frivolous as ego? Yes ego creeps in where many learned take themselves for granted and falter.. But how can a person - a person who is so absorbed in the daily rituals to even realize what survival involves indulge in a time-taking sport such as 'ego'?
It takes a million goons to go thru natality and fatality for one Oscar Wilde to be borne.. My utopia would be a world full of people with strength in character to at least have the testes to take a stand.. I know I have enough testosterone to take a stand when pushed hard enough..
I really wonder about the other billion on the planet though..
1 comment:
There is something to be said for ego; without ego, there would be no failures. Without failures, how would we as the general janta then get to thokofy our chest to say, "boy isn't it nice to be sane and better than the rest?" Don't do that sort of an injustice to us all.
Ego is a character flaw that people flaunt as being a positive reflection of themselves. I would suggest that it is not ego, it is the use and sometimes abuse of the same that gets people in trouble; maybe even someone we know *wink, wink*?
Finally, it has been a while since you last blogged, what's going on? Why the blocks in your blog? And seriously easy on the keyboard; I can just see the letters being wiped off as your "ego" hammers the superiority of oneself onto the commentary you post (just kidding, or am I? hmmm.. we will never know). :)
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