THE HUMAN MADNESS

Some two thousand years before Christ, few people in England moved huge rocks weighing 40-50 tonnes, carried them over 80 kms and built what is today known as stonehenge. Thereby, they paid their respects to their ancestors. But why do people across geographies,societies,periods do that? Why do they perform immposible looking tasks? Just for the heck of it? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Why do people have to cross the Atlantic, build pyramids, cross the North Pole, climb Mount Everest, traverse the seas and run marathons?? Most academics would agree that such innane activities does no real tangible good to the betterment of society. It is unlike discovering medicines or inventing the computer or even making great insights into science and technology. Then what it is about such insurmountable tasks that inspire people and also motivates a whole generation of others? How do these individuals make hereos out of themself? Maybe because, as humans go, we are one of the only species that can think. And as the human spirit goes, we are definitely mad. By giving such performances, we are making sure that nothing is beyond us,nothing it is that can't be achieved. We are beyond limits,in anything that we do. So, travelling in a hot air baloon around the world gives us pleasure. We know those risks, we know what could be the outcome. Possible death. So what!How beautiful, how amazing! Thats what living is about. Its about dying a hundred deaths to seek pleasure. Pleasure that would ruin us, make us suffer, take our breath away, leave us stranded....Let it be. Life would never come again. Then why should we embrace it to our self. Let it free, let it abandon, get lost, let it wander. In the process, it may inspire a few, surprise a few and bring a whole new discovery among us. A new land, a new space and a new horizon awaits us. Salute the adventuror! Let a life of chance begin!

Change....

Changes affects the existence or the substratum of our being. As we walk through the experiences & magic of human life, we are also subjected to many varied situations. Those enable us to understand, but truly, the nature of things happening around us. We confront change with the sheer mentality of rigidness until it grasps our whole environment. To understand change is to accept the necessity of it. Because, the most amazing circumstances are ahead of us. Are we geared for them? Visionaries, vanguards, policy-makers, scientists are all processors of change. The process of change is an ever present danger lurking around them or us, for that matter. A single factor of it can have far reaching implications on the society. But changes never happen suddenly; those are suprises. All of it is a slow process that takes places so steadily that we only see it’s hands grapple us to believe it. The computer,telecom,electronic revolution spared nobody. Its not like we wake one fine day to see that change has taken place. The blossoming of a flower takes a whole night for the petals to move outward. To be surprised by change is not to be ready for it. But it takes a certain propensity to forsee, visualize and envision a change. We sleep in our own cocoon till it hits us. The shape of things to come are very interesting. We might wonder at them now but they would be part of our very mundane world. Even now many things are changing around us. The great tectonic shift happens not because we miss it but because we were never wanting to accept it. But to see things changing is also to make changes inside us. We simply let ourselves wander in the flow of things; letting for the ride to change the course of our journey. If technology, science can’t change the social, monetary needs of every individual then it is not our worth to be human. We are all part of a global shift in many ways what with globalisation and technology. As they say 'Change is the only constant'. I’ll add-'Change is constantly changing'