This is a strange world. Well strange may not sound to be an offensive word for the world but I want to raise my voice to the true offenders i.e. the constituents of the world, people and while doing this I want to be true to myself and you. That is why I am restraining myself from using a well suited word or rather adjective for the world to make my point more clear but am using the word which truthfully represents my perception of the world. And the feeling you are getting while going through these few lines are exactly what I perceive of being strange.

Sometimes you do not know how to match your pace with the world or why to go with it. You want to sit down, relax, mock at the rats and the ants, sip a few moments with your thoughts and that is what is actually coming to life for you. So what is the life (or some similar thing) which you spend with the other people in the world? Is it a responsibility of a person to socialize with other or just a management stunt for your life (even the textbook definitions of management = art of getting things done through and with other people) as in manage relationships, grades, jobs, finances, retirement and what not. So isn’t all this interaction superficial? Even the best of friends or soul mate can’t get into your thoughts when you do not allow them so is there any point in getting them so close and then shutting them off?

Man is a social animal and maybe animal is way to sober word for it. The rules of socializing being to pull back every single person overtaking him with all what he has got, to mock at every single thing he can’t understand, to prejudice against the unknowns, to favor the benefactor and shun the unknowns irrespective the potential, to bolster the boss and emasculate the underling, to eat the ripened of others for free and never attempt to aid torments, to be strange opposing the ancestral meaning of humanity.

Now what should be the true nature of a person who is surviving the worldly ways? Is a person bad just because he follows the simple path of modern life as we see it today? Is it good that he survives defying the basics of goodness bestowed upon us right from the very first lesson of moral education? Is surviving the true aim and can a person truly LIVE with others in this world? I don’t like strange things…

Saamir Gupta