Tuesday 10 February 2009

Reflections - Is it wrong to be always right?

What is right and what is wrong?Its pretty interesting when we look at it because its never that easy to generalise.Things that are right for me may not be right for you.How did these lines of discrimination come up?Who was so jobless enough to segregate things and actions into right and wrong ones? and even if there was such a jobless person who actually did this exercise - why should I listen to him?I do things that I feel are right for me.If me doing something does no harm to others and if my conscience allows it, I consider it to be right(now guys don't you drift off into extremely complicated issues that involve sadistic intentions - my earlier statement was not meant to point in that direction at all).
Well let me put it this way, there are three types of actions classified based on the implications that they cause (remember Newtons 3 rd Law :Every Action has an equal and opposite reaction??), so we have class 1 actions which influence the society in which we live, class 2 actions that influence our friends and close circle and class 3 actions that influence our closest kith and kin.People generally do not imply the right or wrong(further referred as ROW) thought process when they have to do a class 1 action.In the case of class 2 action, well people do think about their reactions and apply ROW principle, with class 3 there is a big deliberation about the ROW principle.
Now my question is : Is it right to go ahead with your action when it is class 3 and the result after application of ROW rule is no? Personally I feel its not wrong to do so.Having said that I would also add that you have to make yourself immune to the reactions that your actions can trigger.You cant eat your cake and have it too, can you?
After reading so much of my analysis, I can understand if you are thinking "What has gone wrong with her? has she lost it completely?" , but think of a situation when you have stopped yourself from doing something because you dread the reactions.I am not saying its right or wrong to have behaved in such a way because situation plays a major role in this and then there are always these transitional states where right things are construed wrongly.So I would say "Its right to be always not wrong"
A highly bored and heavily sedated me (sedation strictly due to non-alcoholic reasons).

Monday 2 February 2009

Random notes - Snow.

Its every girls dream... flakes of snow falling like soft feathers.. like somebody has set off the candy floss machine up above (and forgot to put in the bright pink colour!!!!)...the whole place is covered with a pristine white carpet.. so white that it dazzles the eye... you wonder if white could be any whiter????The trees are iced with them....making them look like a part of a huge marzipan cake...the whole place from a birds eye view looks like a bowl of cereal drenched in milk...(I know it sounds bizarre.. but it does!!!)... and like Cupid has tipped a giant tub of vanilla ice cream over the place!!!!There is something very very ethereal about snow...and the sound of snow falling... if you listen hard,you can hear it falling.. in almost silent thuds...the sound of a white fleece blanket being unfurled on a soft mattress...so clean and starking crisp.And the feeling it brings ... electric and sparky.. the air is so crisp... that it assumes a very physical nature and you feel like you can crush the air between your fingers as would do to starched linen.All you want to do is to curl up on your couch with a cup of steaming coffee.. the heaters on.. all wrapped in a cozy blanket...reading a book (or watching tv for non-readers)...the curtains drawn out for you to take an occasional peek outside...or just take a long warm bath.. soaking in some hot water with lavender bubble bath.... or just be frivolous and run out to play in the snow... making snow men... bombarding each other with snow balls....your cheeks and nose all red and burning after the exercise...hmmmmmmmm....Divine I would say :)