The constancy of change and vice-versa
Why am i doing this? Why the hell do i test myself in this brutal fashion when nobody is threatening me at gunpoint? When i know for a fact that i am going to loathe each and every minute of the process and find the fruits of this excruciating experiment too bitter for my taste. Why, oh why am i writing this post?
Well, read on to have a peep at my attempt to find the answer.
( As a matter of fact, to be absolutely honest with you, the beautifully short sentence above is actually a substitute for a page of extremely painful fart i had cooked up originally. The alteration was forced as people then refused point-blank to read my blog. Hope this effects a change of mind.)
There is to this tough question, as almost always, a trivial solution. One of the reasons i have set upon this tricky task is that this site is really rotting with no fresh entries for about four months and a half in spite of fervent and frequent requests,pleas and threats from it's many anxious patrons demanding some action at the battlefront. Sift the evidence, i mean. Three comments on my previous post. Thats right. THREE. So here comes the respite for all those diehard fanatics. You can now stop chewing your fingers looking for that one last bit of cuticle to bite off and immerse yourselves into yet another treat for the intellect, the spirit and the soul.
There is no point denying it. The previous para, except for that site-rotting bit, is as blatant a lie as you will find on this blog. I mean, one out of the three comments was written only because i commented on that commentee's blog, and he felt obliged to return the favour. And another, believe it or not, was an advertisement to a blog on the stock market!!! So the thing must go further than that. Let us therefore endeavour to swim into deeper seas in quest of that elusive solution to this mystery.
So why does a person do something which he knows he is not going to enjoy or find useful? However hard the actual answer may be, it think it may be summed up in one word, or any synonym of it : CHANGE. Change, i believe some big shot once said, is the only constant thing in the world. People need change, even from things they enjoy a lot. Need for change makes people do crazy things. I mean, look at me for instance. Here i am, wasting my time on something i normally hate doing, with a report due tomorrow. I can think of a million things i would rather do in normal circumstances. But the fact is, i need a break from not writing blogs, even though it ( not writing blogs, obviously), is something i love doing.
There is, i believe, in most of our lives, at any given instant, an equilibrium. It may not last long, but while it does, it does. An equilibrium whose state defines which activity and in what proportion will give one maximum satisfaction, constrained obviously be the maximum free time available. An equilibrium which brings order into our lives, which keeps us sane and healthy. An order, essentially, which is critical for our existence. And then there is change.
Change may be temporary or permanent. A temporary change is one which does not affect the equilibrium state mentioned above. Just the odd spell of rain in chennai. Only the irregular variation from everyday routine. My writing this post, for instance. This is the fuel which keeps the equilibrium state running strong, the food for one's imagination. Permanent change, obviously, is one that changes the equilibrium state. Permanent change is one of the truest things of eternity, for it proves that not even that supposedly, and by definition, unflinching quantity, equilibrium, can escape the single invariant entity : CHANGE.
Change, in short, is the lone thumb rule that life has given us (apart from the second law of thermodynamics, of course :) ) to go upon. It is the only thing which is common to the lives of all those billions of people inhibiting this planet. Anything with imagination in it just cannot thrive without change. This is the wisest and truest thing i know. I must finally state that i have only touched upon the realms of a very deep philosophical problem, just looked at it as simplistically as possible. The true answer lies a lot further down, but one has to make a start somewhere, some sort of an attempt at least.
Ok then. So long. I sign off leaving the reader sincerely hoping that this particular whim of mine is only a temporary change.
Well, read on to have a peep at my attempt to find the answer.
( As a matter of fact, to be absolutely honest with you, the beautifully short sentence above is actually a substitute for a page of extremely painful fart i had cooked up originally. The alteration was forced as people then refused point-blank to read my blog. Hope this effects a change of mind.)
There is to this tough question, as almost always, a trivial solution. One of the reasons i have set upon this tricky task is that this site is really rotting with no fresh entries for about four months and a half in spite of fervent and frequent requests,pleas and threats from it's many anxious patrons demanding some action at the battlefront. Sift the evidence, i mean. Three comments on my previous post. Thats right. THREE. So here comes the respite for all those diehard fanatics. You can now stop chewing your fingers looking for that one last bit of cuticle to bite off and immerse yourselves into yet another treat for the intellect, the spirit and the soul.
There is no point denying it. The previous para, except for that site-rotting bit, is as blatant a lie as you will find on this blog. I mean, one out of the three comments was written only because i commented on that commentee's blog, and he felt obliged to return the favour. And another, believe it or not, was an advertisement to a blog on the stock market!!! So the thing must go further than that. Let us therefore endeavour to swim into deeper seas in quest of that elusive solution to this mystery.
So why does a person do something which he knows he is not going to enjoy or find useful? However hard the actual answer may be, it think it may be summed up in one word, or any synonym of it : CHANGE. Change, i believe some big shot once said, is the only constant thing in the world. People need change, even from things they enjoy a lot. Need for change makes people do crazy things. I mean, look at me for instance. Here i am, wasting my time on something i normally hate doing, with a report due tomorrow. I can think of a million things i would rather do in normal circumstances. But the fact is, i need a break from not writing blogs, even though it ( not writing blogs, obviously), is something i love doing.
There is, i believe, in most of our lives, at any given instant, an equilibrium. It may not last long, but while it does, it does. An equilibrium whose state defines which activity and in what proportion will give one maximum satisfaction, constrained obviously be the maximum free time available. An equilibrium which brings order into our lives, which keeps us sane and healthy. An order, essentially, which is critical for our existence. And then there is change.
Change may be temporary or permanent. A temporary change is one which does not affect the equilibrium state mentioned above. Just the odd spell of rain in chennai. Only the irregular variation from everyday routine. My writing this post, for instance. This is the fuel which keeps the equilibrium state running strong, the food for one's imagination. Permanent change, obviously, is one that changes the equilibrium state. Permanent change is one of the truest things of eternity, for it proves that not even that supposedly, and by definition, unflinching quantity, equilibrium, can escape the single invariant entity : CHANGE.
Change, in short, is the lone thumb rule that life has given us (apart from the second law of thermodynamics, of course :) ) to go upon. It is the only thing which is common to the lives of all those billions of people inhibiting this planet. Anything with imagination in it just cannot thrive without change. This is the wisest and truest thing i know. I must finally state that i have only touched upon the realms of a very deep philosophical problem, just looked at it as simplistically as possible. The true answer lies a lot further down, but one has to make a start somewhere, some sort of an attempt at least.
Ok then. So long. I sign off leaving the reader sincerely hoping that this particular whim of mine is only a temporary change.
posted by Ravi @ 12:31 AM
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