How does one get over a feeling of restlessness? of uncertainty, of diverging paths, of the unknown...
You'd think that you have already done your share of the slog. But somehow each time you take a moment and reflect, you feel like a 4 year old kid who thinks he's done it all. But in the end thoughts and perspectives are so very relative. You can market / debate the hell out of a success and make it a resounding failure or vice versa. Some how as a kid who loved debating, I used to love doing it with abstract topics, but recent incidents really make me wonder on the absurdity of relativity.
Relativity... A very convenient term. A term that can make a contended (successful?) and happy person; into one who is just in a confort zone with blinders on! I just recently proved that to someone. Perspective indeed... But brings up a key point. Where do you draw the line on perspective.
Take for example an individual who just does not want to / does not know better to think about more variables / complexities in life. Such a person can be very comfortable with where he/she is in life; going on with life's tenacities. Why do I resent such an individual as being shortsighted? Why do I want to brand such a person as being beneath my interest zone? Is it wrong to lose interest in simple people? The funny thing about people is the shades of grey. It is easy to categorize the really simple ones. The picture gets hazy when you get to people who are just amazingly complex in some areas in life and yet just so under-developed in others.
The philosopher in me just cannot reconcile to this spectrum. You do learn to stop judging people, else you would never have 'friends' to hang out with. But when you think back to an Aristotle or a Socrates or a demosthenes. Why should a philospher indulge the simple?
An answer pops up- loneliness! Sucks indeed if that were the only answer!!!
But the realist in me suggests that there are more solutions to the problem. Life can be a collage of people, groups and relationships. Some where you learn, some where you teach and some where you are equals. And loneliness is just one aspect of life, conveying the fact that man is a social animal. Perspective! :-) Don't I love its attires.
Maybe my current restlessless is the impatience of a life in transition. Sigh. Why can't there be dictatorship in life on an as required basis! with full blamability on screw ups! :-)
Life!
2 comments:
Boy.. U really are lonely to wrie up something as vague as this:--) my perspective
Being vague or not is a matter of comprehension. I think it is a very meaningful philosophical expression on the idea of uncertainty. And the intent of the blog was never about being right or wrong. It was a thought.
Now does loneliness drive such a creation? Maybe yes. You do need the motivation and time to get to ponder about life. Blame what ever incidental reason, but the outcome is the point of discussion not the motivations behind it.
Loneliness could drive a person to alcohol, salsa dancing, books, movies or even dating. So do not discount the objective of the blog by the color of the path that lead up to it.
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