Friday, July 27, 2012

Horns and Halos



Ever since my childhood I’ve been taught to be good to others to such an extent that as a child I always found ‘being good’ very glamorous and fascinating. They always said bad people have horns on their heads while the good ones have a halo over them - Bright and beautiful signifying knowledge and spirituality. Although I’ve always liked to feel a halo floating above me but holding it in place hasn’t been all that fun. Science declares halos as optical illusion.

There is something funny about a few people around me. They love being nasty, yet insist on sticking on a halo with their hair gel. The idea of being good to everyone all the time is not enthralling anymore. I haven’t been able to find a reason good enough why I should put up with nasty behavior. People are bitter to others. I’ve managed to pull through a handful of them. I don’t mean to blame them instead I’ve been trying to justify them. I’m a very reasonable person, you see. And in spite of finding it all a bother, I love halos.

I’m amazed by the audacity exhibited by the ‘halo sticking’ variety. They have their own projections they put on everything which might have little or nothing to do with reality. They decide who deserves how much. When they find things not going their way they do not hesitate to take the matter into their own hands. When they are bitter to me, they just mean to compensate for too much that I’ve been born with, obviously in their opinion alone - I still have about four volumes of busting books – Wishlist I to IV. They believe in equality. (Well, Their definition could be slightly different from the conventional one.)

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Kahaani

Sometimes, I find myself tangled in numerous thoughts. I watched the movie, Kahaani, completely admiring Vidya Balan’s impeccable performance and appreciating the captivating balance the movie strikes between a claustrophobic backdrop and a liberating deception. It created on aura titillating me to reckon on the different moods evoked in me and the different emotions each character must have been left with by the end. But, beyond the script and the plot I found something more intriguing – Something which is very effortlessly accepted in the world (something which wasn’t possibly conveyed intentionally.).

I had been contemplating on how the cycle of life works - the food cycle which is an illustration of feeding connection in ecology. It depicts that the living beings placed higher up in the chain (symbolizing power) live on the ones placed lower than them. Always, the more powerful chooses to customize the lesser ones to accomplish their objectives. Survival is the ultimate aim. This is the most tangible and the most acceptable truth. It forms the basis of existence and evolution of human civilization. Emotion, on the other hand is most intangible. It is an illusion. Its manifestation could be perceptible. Being merely guided by emotions makes things claustrophobic.

The biggest irony is that humans ruthlessly use others, (considering them lesser than one’s own self) completely following something as definite as the nature’s law of existence, to attain their higher motives which most times than not are completely driven by something as abstract as emotional needs. This, I saw through the movie too. Isn’t this a way of looking at the plot that Vidya Bagchi very mercilessly victimizes people to revenge her husband’s death!

Emotion is perhaps the most intricate form of deception laid on us by god.