Mindlessnes

Though I am not very sure where this writing will lead to, as my writings usually don’t convince any one when I try it with such topics, being a bit of a pragmatic person that we all are. I hope you understand what I mean.

Ever read any case study in which a character just like you and me is going through different kinds of experiences, interpreting them in their own ways. Some times confused, some times convinced, some times compromised, some times convicted.

Ever discussed your day to day feelings with other people sometimes with an intention to find a solution, but alas. Without reaching anywhere but just releasing your momentary mental-stress?

Ever wrote things about which even you are not sure. Things which while writing, even you know that you are manipulating sometimes. In a tone that you are explaining to others, but knowing well-within that you are not sure of it.

Ever watched a movie or a daily-soap where you find your favorite characters acting in weird ways which pleases you. Ever observed those few characters which you hate. The characters who with out letting you know are sinking into your brain in the very same intensity as the others labeled as good ones.

Ever helped a poor/ hungry person? Did you dig down as what made you do so?
A sense of responsibility towards this society? Or a sense of so called ‘Humanity’.
You did it because it gave you a momentary relief that yes you are doing good use of your life. That it made you feel good that you are better than many others who are not helping it. Ever tried to ask yourself the answer of “Why you should do it.”
Because at one or other place when you say that the society is responsible for this person’s present situation, you know that being a part of this society, you are responsible for it some where. That even you have a fare-share of that guilty consciousness which we ignore while moving forward in this curry-in-hurry life.

Our Grey cells play games. Games we don’t understand (At least few of us think so). Games which sometimes please us, confuse us, make us happy, and make us sad. All attributed to the complex organic chemical reactions happening well within this machine called human brain.

These games take us nowhere. Hence more than discussing the questions, what becomes important to us is “To find the suitable answers” which if don’t make us attend the ‘Nirvana’, but at least maintain our ‘Productivity’ through out our life.

So then we have reached to an end where we want to know how we can do that.

Ever been to any Psychologist? No offense, but if you have visited one, you know how beautifully they answer all these kind of day to day ups n downs we think about. Some times even better than our parents do. When I walked in simply to one of them in Apollo just to find what exactly these guys do, I ended up being mesmerized by their simple yet to-the-point answers and getting a list of great books from him when I asked him how he does it so well :)

Now it really does not mean that all of us are supposed to go and meet a P-guy for each of our problems. So then here are our choices.

Go and ask them :) or
Enhance our knowledge to a level when these frivolous questions stop troubling us and we are able to find their answers ourselves. When we even are able to counsel some one or
Stay lost in thoughts or
Just go and do something productive to us, as the greatest form of love is to “Love thyself.”

After all “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”