Saturday, January 10, 2009

Is this life?...

"Time is limited, live your own life ,not someone else's life", says every advisor. However, the stark reality of life has something else to say. Man as a social animal has to abide by the so-called laws of a society. And when one tries to go against this code of life, it makes hue and cry over it. Ultimately, one falls under the clutches of this cruel society and gets a cut in one's free wing .

As one gets an insight into the benefits gained by the society through trimming one's wing of freedom, one is astonished to learn that there are no such benefits which they gain. This grouping of individuals which we have named as society does nothing other than hindering in one's growth. It does such things only to hide its own shortcomings.

Despite knowing all these barbarisms of this insensitive society, yet some sect of people are unable to go against the norms of it. And if one goes against the codes set by them then he/she is being called as insensitive towards his/her family. One can tolerate anything but not a word against one's family. Family is such an institution where one has to have a second thought of any new step he/she wants to take up. It is essential to review one's thought when it comes to family . We ,Indians, like western cannot think to live on our own without family by our sides. It is this emotional attachment that one finds hard to break off from and then one feels the need to review his/her doings which may go against the family.

Saying everyone to live life on their own is not difficult but it indeed is a difficult task to live on our own. One cannot detach oneself from the bonds with the so-called society that easily even if one is willing. That is where one lives not his/her life but someone else's. And try to find his/her happiness in other's life. Living a life which is not yours is christened as a life by the society in this stage where we all perform our acts till our death . Truly, " All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players."

3 comments:

  1. Mehnaz,

    All you wrote is not only your problem or even a group of people like you and me but it’s the problem of the youth of this era.

    After the world wars, and all other historical and literary revolutions, man/womankind has gone through a phase of 'mentality shift'. The thinking of 'roots attached', the ‘existence of our being’, the questions of ‘why do we exist’, or ‘do we exist’, the question of individual and society has always been there but they have gathered momentum and mass after the second world war when the snowball was set to roll!

    It is neither easy for the individual to leave family nor for family to leave individual. And there are times when none of them have any middle path to follow, there comes the Shakespearean saying, "all the world..." There is a tussle between societal and individual desires. Individuals make society and societies make individuals. Society has a great role to play in an individual's value system.

    But at the same time the individual happyness should not 'blindly' be sacrificed too. It curtails the psychological growth of the individual and hence cutting short his/her life span. Life energy starts evaporating, the exit becomes cluttered and clouded, thoughts run from everywhere to everywhere, mind goes berserk and heart weeps!!!

    Then comes the momentous Question, “Is this life?” The answer is, Yes dear, this is what has been 'defined' as life. It seems synonymous with hell. Then the only exit is to enjoy 'carrying the stone towards the peak everyday' as Sisyphus did. Take pleasure in that pain and laugh on the face of destiny and say, "look you, I am happy and doing great!"

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  2. sometimes we need to concenterate and have to put on what we really feel on this matter that you have put on ...........yet in most of the cases we find that the realities of life is this and inspite of knowing all this sort of stupidity we still continue on and on.....but great that you tried to pull out and jot down what you feel , good work .

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  3. so called the leaders of these societal groups that mankind has created have themselves not followed the rules that they themselves created at some point of their lifetime.... they try to reconstruct or redesign the social laws as well as interpret the religious rules too according to their needs and wants...

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