Valentine’s Day?
Valentine’s Day?
the world. futile. things dont need to make sense. they never need to make sense.
What do you mean by things making sense. When something makes sense to you, it means that you are able to understand it. Why do we need to understand everything? It again has its answers in evolution.
Life is all about survival. Everything we do, from breathing to being polite to our elders, or laughing or enjoying or feeling sad or angry, all of it springs forth from our sense of survival.
Initially brawn was the gateway to long survival. But in due time, as man evolved (i dunno what prompted man’s evolution along this direction) he realised that knowledge is also a vital component to survival. The more we know, the better out chances to defend ourselves. But knowledge on its own becomes too volumnous to retain. An easier way of knowing things is by understanding them. If we understand something, then we are able to retain it better, and use it better.
Since then, man has had this unqenchable quest for knowing things. but the more we probe, the more complicated it gets.
So I believe the biggest curse on a human is his ability to ask ‘Why’ !
Imagine. Life wud have been so much more simpler if we didnt have the mind to ask why. But in that case, our minds wouldnt have been evolved to appreciate the simplicity of existence.
So we come full circle. The best way to deal with such things is to not want to deal with them. Take things as they come. And listen to your heart.
In today’s world we believe that we are all individuals seperate from each other. Thats the modern understanding of this entity called human.
What this understanding masks is the fact that we really are not discernable. We all are just functional parts of the whole system. Just like there are billions of cells keeping us alive. They are individuals, but yet they achieve the common purpose.
How does a cell know what it is supposed to do? THe DNA holds instructions for it.
How does a human know what he is supposed to do in life? The heart holds the knowledge needed.
The heart is very different from the emotions. The heart is not the voices in your head. The heart is the things that we just know.
You know there are times when you just know what you have to do. Thats when your heart is speaking. If you dont ever feel this way, then probably you have forgotten yourself. It wouldnt be your fault. The modern world, though recognising a person as an individual, does not recognise man’s emotions. I am talking about technology.
The only places where technology rises above the material is where it sees that to market itself, it has to take care of two things:
It should feed the lazy attitude of man.
It should be aesthetically pleasing.
These are the only human yardsticks as far as technology goes. Mental states, the mind, the emotions are of little importance for technology to progress. Technology is founded upon ‘abstract’ observations and knowlegde. There is no room for emotions in Newtons third law of motion. A very real law would state :
When an observer, whose state of mind falls in to the category of a general cross-section of people who will read this law, sees an action being performed, he finds that for that action to take place, and equal and opposite reaction is also taking place on the body doing the action.
In our quest to be succint, we kill even the slight thin chance of the heart being able to influence what we materially percieve.
