Simple and yet deep quote, and it just strikes your head to just think and look back for a moment. Just lie down, relax and think and ponder and wonder and amaze...I look back at my life and I hardly remember any worthy instance (leaving those close escapes with studies and the gossips with friends) to just preserve and tell everyone 50 years later. And still, 21 years have zoomed by and I still don't know what I am going to do - the basic question every person asks you from your childhood. "Beta! kya banoge badhe hokar....doctor (the one with earphones?!) ya engineer (huh! sounds cool)". The problem is no one ever gives the answer!! One universal question that everyone has but no one ever gets the answer is the question "why". You'll just get tired of asking and the same reply always "you are too young to understand", "because it is the right thing to do".
-why can't we play now and study after 30
-why do we have work during the day and sleep at night
-why can't we play now and study after 30
-why do we have work during the day and sleep at night
-why do we have to learn and not understand
-why shouldn't boys cry
-why is breaking rules so 'cool'
-why aren't we supposed to question
-why do we have to work our life off to retire in peace
And one just gets the answer as we ask...we are not supposed to because we are too young to understand. So are our parents, our teachers, our friends and....everybody is just adapting to the system, a system created to make the whole beautiful little world 'organised'. The mysterious fear surrounding it makes everyone follow it. Sadly, everyone just learns not 'why' the system is but 'how' to succeed in the system, how to live the perfect life, the one having done it all seen it all.
Nice start,My take:
ReplyDeleteThe questions you seek answers to are the ones which will lead you to Nirvaana-the ultimate truth.The state where you detach yourself from the physical world and join the One.But the bigger question is how one reaches it, in one life time.
you can start questioning,but it has to end sometime. usse kya hoga? usse kya hoga? fir usse kya hoga? beyond a certain limit science, religion, even reason fail. Our ancestors were wise, they made rules from rational reasoning, they even understood that their descendents might not turn out to be as reasonable as them hence incorporated those rules into religion so that noone dared disobey them, therefore the rationale behind much of our "system" is unknown,lost in time, but I believe that its very much there. It is therefore that our elders discoursge questioning, not because there is no answer, but because they dont know it.
ReplyDeleteAfterthought:: We reach the dead end to usse kya hoga much before our ancestors did but even they could have only gone a few usse kya hogas further, but not all the way. There are always questions not all have answers tough, so whats the point, live the system and be merry.
@anurag: LOL...i am not searching for the nirvana, i am focused on the success in the system. doesnt hurt to think about it though.
ReplyDeletetime is not a constraint; 1 lifetime is too short to do anything and at the same time long enough to do anything.
@salil: totally agree, system created bcoz there was no 'official' body to lead and they had to keep everyone in line. acc to me, even God was 'created' to realise the fear in ppl so that they dont try to cross limits.
ReplyDeletebeing merry is diff, who says i am not..[:P]
Hmm apparently You have not met anyone who has been with the system yet has grownup asking the questions learning life by the way of asking questions and not merely follwing what the system says!
ReplyDeletenow about the questions uve asked!
if u decided to ask the questions starting with "why" you could have picked better!!!
ans to 1) its so becoz early child hood is very conducive to growth which is both mental and physical after thirty (if u were playing till then) you would be good at playing but not studying... now let me ask again why is it wrong to be good at playing? well the answer to that is the human psyche started giving more importance to knowledge aquisiton(studying) rather than physical after our ancestors started setlling down...
2)Evolution is the answer to that! and hey there are ppl who do wake up at night and sleep during the day... but not without consequences
3)My teachers in school always told me dont do rote learning understand stuff!!!!!
4)The human society is a patriachal society where the male forms the back bone and hence the families that survived the nomadic stage of human race had very strong induvidual males as family heads so historically men were always morally physically strong others didnt survive but in the mordern world it isnot so u neednt be morally strong but still be sucessful!! so there exist ppl who go against the convention like you asked so ppl like that exist now many boys cry and some sections of ppl dont treat it awkwardly
5)breaking rules! the answer to that is in the male harmones and also peer pressure!
6)I was always encouraged to question!
7)Eh i dont dream of retiring in peace!! so do many of my friends!
the system in question ur talking about though has its flaws it is not essentially flawed!
the one thing it does is it encourages not to question!, but i for one never felt that it never discouraged me to think!...
anyways i realize that this reply is as long as ur post sorry for that! :D and nice blog uve got a keen follower!
My thoughts echo with yours . just 'why' do i have to do it?
ReplyDelete@ salil : ur statement makes sense somewhat but that agains means we have to accept the 'rights' and 'wrongs' already set up in the society and i disagree with "you can start questioning,but it has to end sometime."
ReplyDeleteI have a quote to share here, its by buddha
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. "
@visa: lol and ty for ur comments (read it as gyaan)...a couple of answers, u hav already made up ur mind as these are "the right things which humans are made for" (who said)...and even if it is scientifically right, my point is exactly that it makes no sense to follow it thus.
ReplyDeletegood to have a "keen follower"...your comments always welcome.
@mohit: i knew u would reply like this [:P]...and nice quote.
ReplyDelete:)
ReplyDeletetrue why are we made like this!
is a better question to ask and no mortal has an answer for that!
You've posted a preliminary set of questions. Many of these will come to one's mind at some point of time or the other. "You are too young to understand" - is euphemism for 'I cannot explain' or 'I dont know'. If you are bothered of getting answers from others or from the 'system' then forget it, you will never find any. Whatever answer others (system) would give you would only be in accord to some general consensus or rules. True answers cmoe only from within.
ReplyDeleteAn answer is only meaningful when you know the relevant question. Be glad that atleast now these questions bother you. If they didnt, you wouldnt search for answers nor know that they are the answers even if given to you by anyone.
The real question is 'do you want someone to give you answers to your questions?' If so, then life is not worth living. Life is to search for your own answers.
IMPORTANTLY, stop taking up juvinile questions like why not play now and learn after 30 - simply because your brain has maximum learning capacity <30 (scientific fact)
If you want to cry, then cry. If you dont want to work, dont work. If you want to ask questions, ask quesions. Who is gonna stop you? People will say, your life sucks, or you are not doing the right thing. SCREW PEOPLE. This is YOUR life, why the hell do you care about what others think? At the same time, if you want to please everyones asses then eat your questions and live as the servant of the system.
I have faced similar bullshit all my life. Probably, questions life more than required. I have always wanted to do physics. People found that weird, wrong, unorthodox, stupid, etc. If I cared for every ass who came upto me and said my decisions are wrong, or I am not suppoesed to question, then my life would have sucked.
The questions are there in everyone's minds. People dont want to let them out, out of fear. fear that they would not be accepted by the system or fear of failure. If you have either of them, then you will die with your questions unanswered.
@sharkey- nice comments...was it from ur brain or ur heart?
ReplyDelete@mohit: then why should we listen to buddha? you realize that it is a self-contradictory statement?
ReplyDeleteYeh System hi kharab hai!!! Isko change karna padega...........#bullshit
ReplyDeleteYou start your life in this world not as a member but a stranger down the dark alleys. The point then is to pick up from what you see or perceive rather than question. You question something you doubt its reason for existence. Based on your little understanding of the perspective reason you can not decide. There's no point questioning when you can not decide your path thereafter. You follow the system not because you are a fool but you don't know what follows in other numerous paths. We do a thing in a certain way as its been tested down the years. One in hundred things might turn out to be flawed in its reasoning but i doubt you will be able to reach that one or you will be able to bear the other 99 failures of trying different ways from what the system says.
Portraying a world with unanswered questions draws the world in wrong paint..........
Its dull, clueless and disappointing....
Add a question to your list
What is the purpose of Life?
Try answering this question and question everything else later.........
Seems like u r inspired by the BUM BUM BOLE song(Taare Zameen Par)...LOL...I cant really comment much coz Philosophy isnt my cup of tea..[:P]
ReplyDelete@troupe: ur comments like research analysts....really good but don't get which side u r supporting. [:)]
ReplyDelete@swathy: see u r already prejudiced that u can't comment on philosophy [:P]
ReplyDelete@bhuvan: It is both... when your logic cant answer something, let emotions do that job and vice versa... :)
ReplyDeleteOMG its a Blockbuster :)
ReplyDelete@ salil : buddha said dont listen to him if it doesnt make logic to you ..so its not contradictory after all .
ReplyDelete@salil: agree with mohit.
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