I'm climbing a spiral staircase and not hoping to turn again...

Sunday, September 24, 2006

I sometimes get this gut feeling that things…the world in general, the morals and ethics that characterize human beings, the choices we make in life, and life itself…everything just keeps getting worse and worse. And there’s nothing much we can do about it. And it would never get better. No matter how optimistic people can be, they all are scared inside. They’re scared that nothing will ever come to a good end, or worse, that nothing will ever end, but just keep going round and round until they either go mad from exhaustion or die. And if they’re not scared, then they’re even worse than any of that.

I’m still blankly staring at life, trying to figure out where I’m going, what I’m doing, and whether it would ever come to anything. I’m still trying to figure out not what love is, but whether it’s even there. Or was ever there. Maybe in the future, love would have a new meaning in the dictionary-maybe love would come to be a word meaning something which never existed and can never exist. Can you picture it? A rooster’s egg is love. A Parsee’s grave is love…sometimes my own ideas bewilder me.

I’m also still blankly staring at my reflection, so fascinated by it-t never shows the same girl twice. When I look into myself, I never see anything twice. Everything’s so shaky, so unstable, and it never stays still. How are you supposed to make sense of something that never stays still? Newton should have made another law-anything that doesn’t stay still cannot be made sense of, and whoever tries would be wasting his or her life.

On a final note, I was supposed to be writing three paragraphs of full text for my Composition Writing & Communication assignment at the time I wrote this…and I sure wish I could hand these three paragraphs in instead of crap about institutions making human beings out of students rather than preparing them for specific jobs. When will the world ever learn sense?

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

nai to aakhon say koi dushmani hai kya? itna chota font kiss khusi main rakh diya? :P

n as far as ur post is concerned I totally agree. standing here at this point in time it really seems like nothing will get better, everything will get worse. And thats not a relative opinion, thats wat everyone will tell u. Looks like mankind itself is on a decline.

With each passing day i get convinced more and more of the fact that 'love' does not exist or that we've misused the word (love) to mean something else. Love in my dictionary is only wat parents have for children, ever present n unconditional. other than that theres NO one in the whole wide world who can love u. the way we use the word these days is not right. love between two people who arent related by blood is either dependency, its possession, its support, its mutual benefit but its not LOVE. if i make my own dictionary i'd define it as 'the emotion of care and protection that parents shower on their children [N.B: this emotion cannot exist otherwise]

9/24/2006 11:10:00 AM

 
Blogger One in the crowd said...

Oh so your font is the culprit here. I thought it is my computer resolution.

On your post, I completely understand what you are trying to say. Ok, now just mull over my thought for a minute no matter how weird it may sound. Yes, love may be a scarcer commodity (pardon that usage) today. But then in the process of evolution, we stopped factoring the changes that happened to man after he became a man. For example, after homo sapien sapien, what next? We don't know. Or probably haven't bothered to find out. Having said that, do you think man in the 21st century is still the same as man was 10 centuries ago? No. Look for one difference and you will find hundred. Right from the way he procreates to his appearance to his wants. Probably a century later, man himself would be extinct. We may have a breed, which, for want of another word, I would call a superman. A superman who is the next step of evolution. One who doesn't have any emotion (including love) or has programmed emotions, if at all. He would be a gadget at best - technically advanced but emotionally zero. But in that age, nobody would need emotions. Love wouldn't be a priority. Life itself wouldn't be a conscious existence. Rather, it would be remote controlled. So, I guess, we are heading in that direction. As the comment above me says, only parents have unconditional love, but isn't that itself on the wane? Nobody wants to have kids coz they want to chase their promotions. Even if they have one, that kid is packed off to a residential school or is babysitted by professionals (which itself is an industry in its own right). So, guess the evolution into a 'superman' has already begun. All through this, remember one rule, "people like us will either adapt or phase out". Remember survival of the fittest? Atleast something will remain, even if it is just a law.

9/24/2006 12:52:00 PM

 
Blogger ATY said...

abt the font: i know how that happened...this is the font we're supossed to b using for all assignments-since i typed this post on Word in the middle of the assignment and copy-pasted it into new post...*sigh*...it wasn't intentional, believe me.

@chij: u know, i'll admit it-i wrote this post at a time when i just had a huge misunderstanding with my mother-the love i mentioned was not the boy-girl love in movies and romance novel...it was universal love...and that's what i'm so disillusioned about.

@joy: ur comment reminded me of so much...douglas adams and lemony snicket and the like...but, when i finally got up the courage to read it-sadly, it made sense and i could relate to it. if only i couldn't...if only i wasn't so frustrated and so scraed that what ur saying has actualy come true

9/24/2006 09:50:00 PM

 
Blogger One in the crowd said...

@ aty
I haven't read Lemony Snicket or Douglas Adams. But I must have inaccurately estimated the advent of the superman era a bit too early. Don't worry hun, our lifetimes will be spent being human. What I was saying is just a figment of my imagination. For all I know, we may do a rewind and head back to the good ol' days. aah..optimism!

9/24/2006 10:26:00 PM

 
Blogger ATY said...

yeah, i think i covered optimism in my post too...however, what u just said abt us being human for the rest of our lives is debatable

9/25/2006 12:08:00 AM

 
Blogger Gia said...

Alright,both of u make equal sense on your parts, but Ullas, dont u think you should look at the bigger picture? I mean, i totally agree with what you said but i dont think thats cent percent true, we shouldnt base our opinions only on whats happening around, theres so much to you too, Who says you cant do anything different?
and as far as this parental love is concerned, exceptions are always there buddy, I have seen people sacrificing for their kids only, and along with that I am very-well aware of the fact how babby sitters are minting money nowadays.So My point is we should not look at just one side.
and as far as where are we going?? This question has always been a part of us right?
we aim for something, lets not go to the achieving part,but still when its over we strive for something new? and then we starta sking ourselves, where are we going? did we want it?or was it something we adapted from our peers?
We modify each passing day..And we HAVE this sense that things are changing thats why we make sure if its right or wrong...
Both of u claim that u have optimistic approach, but in this post i see none..

9/25/2006 05:49:00 AM

 
Blogger Gia said...

and as far as things going worse are concerned..
All we can do is work on our parts,
coz i really dont think that ppl are willing to listen to us..
Nope not at all..

9/25/2006 06:01:00 AM

 
Blogger One in the crowd said...

LET ME CLARIFY!!!!!!!!!!

My theory of superman is a hypothesis. As I later said, there is every chance that I am wrong. And even if it isn't it will be well after my time. So I won't be affected. So I state that with the cold stoicism of a judge (though its not a verdict).

9/25/2006 07:45:00 AM

 
Blogger ATY said...

i have given thought to this post and its comments for almost two days...during lectures and at 1 am in the morning...nad i have reached no conclusion at all.

all of us are right, nobody's wrong, we are all moderately happy in our own spheres of life...its just that, at least with me, one gets some profound moments of despair and unhappiness-which u definitely do NOT live for...but they really do make u write all that's been bothering u....turns out its been bothering a lot of ppl too...that's not good, that's not bad...it just IS

9/26/2006 10:06:00 PM

 
Blogger EYE said...

u right!! when will institutions stop saying that they are making human beings out of students????

9/30/2006 11:16:00 AM

 

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