It all started off with an argument with A about the motormen going on strike and leaving people stranded. She was livid at the way they just stopped the trains mid track and people had to spend the night on the platform. I, for once sided with the motormen. In a country where mere notice or petitions does not work, what else can you do to make your needs felt? I don’t believe we are a poor nation at all. It’s flush with money as all of us have seen during the IPL fiasco. Plus the fact that (as a colleague once told me), if you put all the monies collected by our politicians since independence in Swiss banks, the country’s debt can be paid 13 times over!
But after I got angry and put the phone down on her, my head started to spin….with thoughts which got morbid by the minute. Exactly where are we heading? Me, others, the society, country as a whole and even Earth? How did we land up in such a terrible mess?
Each of us is living vicariously, for the moment and only for ourselves. Collecting and hoarding mindlessly. There might be 210 friends on your facebook account but how many friends are there with whom you can just sit and not talk at all, or on whose shoulder you can lay your head and cry your heart out without feeling stupid or judged later.
Long time ago, maybe 7-8 years back, a colleague was doing a pranic healing course. She could read auras (yes, I believe in all that) and sense the strength of each chakra in a person. For fun we experimented with other colleagues. Almost everybody’s heart chakra was tiny showing how little we felt through our hearts, how closed we were. At that point, it was fun to see this and we all laughed it off. But now I believe it’s true for everybody including me. We have no heart left.
Maybe we have crossed the point from where we could have righted things and now it’s a steady downhill. Maybe only a big calamity can sweep the plate clean so that a fresh good beginning can take place.
Maybe Mumbai’s chaos is getting to me, maybe I need a break and go to the mountains.
4 comments:
sigh.. most of the mountains are going erm, plain :|
i don't think its too late though, for an individual.. its a choice/s to be made of how you want to live... for a society, its debatable...
hey manu. yes thats the saddest part...seeing the hills and mountains becoming plains. u come and see the outskirts of mumbai....hundreds of building cropping up like crazy...all hills gone. sometimes i feel, we as in humans, shouldnt have been given free will or choices.....things would have been much better.
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Even if we have a fresh new beginning, won't it all turn out the same way again?
parmanu....u r right. sometimes i wonder how it will all end :-)
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