Shorwis #45

The trade-off between 'natural' and 'unnatural' is civilisation.

ShorWis #44

There is no real problem in existence of a contradictory idea as long as no contradiction is discovered in such an existence.

ShorWis #43

We might never be able to complete the picture but we should not stop joining the dots. When dots are converted to curves, we move a dimension up.

Shorwis #42

Absolute kindness is a utopian disaster.

SINS

If God has given us the capacity to commit 'sins', then isn't it a shortcoming in his/her creation and not the fault of our actions?
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Or maybe there are no sins at all.

Brain'Wash'

A child is born in a family; not by his choice but rather by his fate: an act between individuals. This choice may become a subject of debate but it doesn’t seem to happen. After all the argumentators are themselves not the ‘product of choice’. Thus there are ideological caveats since the inception of one’s life which in turn leaves a void in development of an absolute perspective. As life progresses, these complications also develop and broadens the scope of deceptive manipulation.

A child is greatly affected by the value system prevailing in the immediate surrounding. He (could also be she, but since I am male) accepts them without a proper reason as the immediate value system lacks the idea of rational reasoning. He was brain’washed’ with thoughts; again without a choice. However, in early days it wasn’t a problem as the concept of choice was beyond the child. But as his interactions expanded, the dilemma of choice crept in. It was an easy choice though. The child couldn’t decide the better of the two owing to his lack of reasoning and not venturing into an unknown territory seemed to be wiser choice to him.

It was only a matter of time. His encountered many brain’washers’ trying to influence him, each with their own ideas (and probably propaganda). To say that he always reasoned his way out amidst this would be outrageously optimistic. He was influenced but since there were just so many influences that nothing could brain’wash’ him completely. And this is the state of mind in which a significant part of the population exists.

Long story cut short. This all continued till he discovered the value of self-reasoning and thereon saw a massive shift in his ideologies. He understood the methods of “brain’wash’” often used as a tool of propaganda. He had developed an open-minded attitude to life events and everything seemed to be in sync with rational beliefs. In short things are good.

Every tale need not end on a happy note and neither does this ends deep in pessimism. It just gets looped; looped around cycle of delusions, apparently having no answers.

And while he was completely convinced that he could no longer be brain’washed’ , a simple thought occurred to him causing his beliefs to get stuck in a limbo, “Have I been trying to get rid of some disease that every living creature must suffer from? Have I been target of some propaganda? Have I been successfully brain’wash-ed’?”

ShorWis #41

There is absolutely nothing wrong in being judgemental as long as the judgement is not a hasty conclusion.

Shorwis #40

We must not be bothered much by the weight of our expectations because ultimately we shall get just a small fraction it.

ShorWis #39

In "seemingly-intense" cases of decision-making wherein "emotions" run high, even a "multi- level-possible verdict" ends up becoming a "binary verdict" owing to a generalised tendency of the people to have their opinions floating to the either extremes. However requirement of such an "intensity" is never validated.

Moral Dilemma in Similar Actions

Two similar events having a similar cause and effect may be perceived differently at different instances as is governed by localised tendencies of the masses irrespective of individual perceptions (which may or may not be significant), and is necessarily beyond the scope of being painted in 'black' or 'white'.

Fortified Souls

And once there was a child who like any other child was made to believe that we are ‘free’, because once upon a time we were under the British rule, but now we rule ourselves. And the child was naturally satisfied with the explanation because it all seemed legit to his nascent understanding. But the time passes and it leads to evolution of ideas. The circumstances of the child strayed him into the realm of self-doubt. Apparently this could have led to a disastrous outcome but due to various other happenings, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Now the child had acquired the ‘maturity’ to doubt his very existence. The event may be an incident or an accident as you might call it.

Now it wasn’t an enlightenment overnight but rather a slow evolution of ideas catalysed by a curiosity for a keen observer and susceptible to his ‘existence’(LOL). The changes were slow and the child was not a child anymore. (But as they say there is a man in every child, so let us refer him as a child.) The child was now ‘free’ or more accurately he had adopted ways which gave him a false impression that he was ‘free’. He was ‘happy’ because he had acquired the ‘Art of Happiness’. But as we know that alteration is the ultimate law of the universe, his ideas were never still. And while new ideas developed, a rift was created with the former ones.

The ever busy mind now wasn’t in sync with prior ideas of ‘freedom’. The child now identified the constraints that tied him, thus preventing him from achieving his freedom. The situation became frustrating and it had an adverse effect on his ideologies. His ideas were free, his imaginations kissed infinities, but could not experience them in reality. A feeling of constraint again gripped him.

Time is the best leveller and the child had again learnt to be happy limiting himself to the freedom of his imagination. He now had multiple personalities, of which just one was visible to the external world. The beauty of his ‘free’ world was that he could experience anything, hate someone or love someone by his choice. But the child was mature enough not to apply utopian conditions to his free world.

And while a feeling of desperation was increasing (because the ideas were constantly evolving), a change inevitably took place and the previous ‘constraints’ were removed from his life. Now the child (not a child anymore) was as much free as he could imagine. He has acquired the freedom to choose, free to roam, free to affect himself etc. And he enjoyed and exploited his newly found freedom. But being never of a calm thought-process, he could have never settled at this position. He started to experience the constraints that were earlier hidden or rather were not ‘essential-enough’ to be considered a restriction. And the idea of “Fortified Soul” germinated somewhere in his conscience. He didn’t like his voice, but he was bound to use it. He never had any freedom to choose it.

And like this child, we never had real choices in many of our ‘free’ decisions. We did not choose our world, our setting, our bodily features, our parents, our religion and most important our decision to exist (or not). We are constrained by our own physical existence. We have our own worldly limitations. We have a voice which cannot change, we don’t have wigs to fly and many others. Our decisions are never ours. We are intoxicated with certain influence.

And thus the concept of “Fortified Soul” is enforced. Your soul can, up to an extent, contemplate freedom but you have your physical attributes to be restricted by. Even utopian ideas are not safe from these constraints. Suppose you try to imagine a ‘world of your will’. But isn’t the world influenced by the negatives (or positives) you do not want to see in life? ……. But we still have a strong feeling of freedom which prevents us from straying into territories of pessimism.

“Choice or more specifically freedom in choice is but a necessary illusion”.

If I come across a point where I have to make a decision with multiple possibilities, then I should feel that I make my choice ‘freely’. Though my decision may have been predetermined owing to some factors, but this illusion works right and perhaps prevents the “creature with higher consciousness” from depressing down. A rich kid might never have the option of pursuing begging as a profession, but he should feel a sense of liberty in choice of his/her path. If we feel free to be ruled or administered by an individual or a group of individuals, then be it. Such a feeling is vital for the existence of societies.

The child while sitting in the lap of nature observed mundane things around and realised that every creation of nature is governed by the rule to be bonded by restrictions. A bird looks beautiful against the backdrop of sunset. But what if the bird demands to be able to run of land? What if a tree demands the power of locomotion? What if a fish wishes to have lungs like that of a terrestrial animal? What if a river desires to be salty? It would most probably lead to a chaotic situation unable to sustain life (let us avoid the definition of life for now).

Now there were no reasons for the child to be saddened by those restrictions, but rather to enjoy the worldly restrictions he had conquered(mostly).

We are “Fortified Souls” because we are meant to be.

Freedom in real sense is said to be attained when an action is taken or a choice is made devoid of unnecessary or malefic worldly influence, and constrained only by natural limitations of the individuals and other harmless worldly factors (such as involuntary human emotions).

ShorWis #38

A flowing river doesn't care what other creatures are doing on its bank.

ShorWis #37

Choice is but a necessary illusion.

ShorWis #36

We all are mathematicians; some of us realise,most of us don't.

ShorWis #35

Hunt down your aspirations before you fall prey to your expectations.

ShorWis #34

Our desires soar high; reaching extreme levels before we realise that we are just fortified souls.