Monday, June 11, 2007

Great principles..

Wonderful is the society and environment that we are brought up in. A child that is born to a "poor" family is only taught one thing: How to make its bread.. how to earn, nah.. beg for money. On the other hand, a child thats born "rich" is also taught that the only goal of its life should be to make money, nah more and more money.
(I dont like to mention poor/rich, but to convey what I want to and for all practical purposes, I will let the words remain)
These children grow up with this attitude.. become engineers, businessmen, doctors and whatever crap there is to be.... and... their only goal is to make money.. Money.. money.. money.. go after money.. and is there an end? The end is met only when all their desires subside. And the desires do not subside till you stop running behind money. Is there an end? I ask again.. Neither is there an end to such desires nor to running behind money.

So, the reason behind discussing this topic is that I ran into an argument and I was told: "Yes. there need not be an end to running behind money.. It should be ongoing".. yeah right.. forever!
I asked- "Are there no principles in life, other than money?" I was told.. well guess what.. the same old thing that the society that we are brought up in keeps saying:" Principles cannot be applied in practical life. Principle is one thing, practical life is another."

I get so disgusted to be even involved in such arguments.. These people do not understand principles, much less do they know what they mean by "practical" life.. If you want to live an unprincipled life, I dont care, go on.. God Bless you! May all the blessings of the world be on you and may you succeed! I dont have a bit of jealousy that you succeeded.. nor do I care how much money you make more than me!
Why do people not grow the children up throwing some principles in their minds.. yeah, where would they throw it from, unless they had any..

And talk about education... Parents would be scared to send their children to schools which teach them principles.. Everything is centered around money-making.. Yeah.. go on.. I dont care even a damn bit. I am not saying that money is not needed or to give up all your money and go to forests! "Money is not the whole point" Think of something beyond. If you really thought of something beyond, you would have no mind to think of money!
Stop your mind for a moment.. well yeah.. apparently.. look behind on how you let it run like a dog.. and you will be so ashamed that you will start laughing at it.. Yeah.. what else can you do then?!
Stop all the non-sense talks. If you let the mind run behind money.. it will run forever.. I really mean- FOREVER. You can try if you want! Its an infinite loop.. do you know what I mean?

Never mind.. you can run after money.. I am not asking you to stop. But for God's sake, please stop talking such non-sense as : "Principles cannot be applied in practical life.. they are only good for philosophical study.. they are just theories". If principles are only theories and cannot be applied, dont study them. Throw them out of your minds as if you never heard them and God bless you! What good are the principles if they cannot be applied? As long as we have such people, our principles will remain only in the good old books and will be theories forever- "good to hear" kind of stuff. Dont ask me how many such people are in this country.. how many such people are in this world.

If you dare, go.. face the society and live your life with whatever principles you believe in. Else, you are free to live any kind of life you want- but dont talk non-sense. You are free to live the life of a hell.. but please dont pull others into it.
Uhh...

It is very rarely that I talk these days and when I started to talk something, it led into arguments like all this crap I wrote..So I realised silence is the best! (In support of my previous posting!)
I wanted to let this out of my mind and into this blog...

Monday, June 04, 2007

Ssshhhh....!

Yeah..silence!!

I have been silent on the blog for a long time. In fact, my earlier blog was also kind of an on-demand blogging! You must be wondering if I wrote this blog about 'silence' just to break that 'silence'. Well, "probably not" or "can't say" would be my reply! But I thought I should say something about it here .. so, here I go..
I have always liked to be silent, rather preferred to remain silent, not talk much kinds. In fact, I said this in one of my interviews 3 years ago. They asked me to describe myself- that usual crap question they keep asking in interviews. And I said: "I am a silent person"! (Something you would never want to say in an interview!!) The idea behind saying this was- 1. I was telling the truth. 2.I was hoping they wouldnt select me for the job- that was a software company and I didnt intend to work there.
Anyway.. coming back to the topic of discussion.. If you observe the kinds of talks that keeps happening around you, it would not be an exaggeration if I say that atleast 90% of them are almost always non-sense. Talks like: People would wake you up and ask: "Oh, were you sleeping", they would see you going for lunch and ask: "did you have lunch?" They would see you in a book store and ask: "Oh did you come to buy books?" (I must have said: "Nah.. I just came looking for someone!) Mostly, you talk because: 1) You want to say something for the heck of it, although you really dont want to or 2) You talk so that the other person doesnt feel bad about the fact you didnt talk.

The point number 2 above makes sense.. but I dont believe in the first one..

And what really makes sense need not be talked about always. You may find yourself talking about it once or twice, but not more. There are certain things which can be conveyed to the other without any words.. silence! Thats the best way of communication and I say this because at the end of it you would have experienced that joy of having communicated what you intended to. I have had many questions that I intended to ask 'some people', which I never asked, but still, I found answers. I have personally experienced this over the last month. Some people kept saying that I should have spoken to atleast those some 'people' when there were very good opportunities to talk, but I kept saying: "Silence is what we prefer". ('We' here means- me and the other(s).

There are certain places I have been to over the last few weeks where I have seen people talk all crap. The discussions are totally out-of context. What is the use of such crappy gossip? I dont believe in 'talking just for the heck of it'. If I want to talk to someone, what happens most of the time is that I call them up, talk for a couple of minutes and then remain silent as though I hung up on them! The person at the other end would keep wondering why I do this, not just once or twice, but all the time!


Of course, remaining silent doesnt hold good with everyone and at all times. I am not saying that we remain silent completely at all times. (although I would wish to be so) But atleast in some aspects- it remains the best mode of communication. You may ask me- "What are those some aspects?" Like I already said- the things that make sense 'at all times' and remain true at all times no matter what, do not need to be discussed, they do not need to be talked about more than a couple of times. Mere talking is not going to help even a damn bit. Like Swami Vivekananda says: "Even parrots can do the talking"!