Professional
drivers make a fist with their palms, tighten the fist, and bang it
on the side of the tyre, whenever their 'attentiveness' permits
them... (usually, soon after getting down from the wheel, or when
about to climb on to it...)... They say, 'Just checking the Tyre, its air, or its 'condition'..' etc.. but 'essence-tially' it is
about its trustworthiness...
The
mother drips a few drops of milk from that feeding bottle, on the
back of her palm to feel if it will not be too hot to burn the tongue
of the baby, before bringing it close to the baby's eagerly waiting
face even!
Logically
we check, the trust worthiness of several routine things...
People
look for that magnifying glass, to read the 'fine-print', the
disclaimers, ... it is strategic management of
trust-deficiency...!
Statesmanship,
takes a complex turn when diplomacy gives a twist to that
trust-deficiency, and the actions are half way towards a preemptive
strike, and yet the explanations seek to vouch for its innocence!
For example.... (quote)
"Our
position is reciprocity, which is an evolving process. When we
realise we don't have reciprocity on something, we do that (take that
step). We're not hostile, this is an arrangement based on
reciprocity," he said.
(unquote)...
(unquote)...
But
when the utensils in a kitchen seem to make a little more noise than
'usual', is it not 'an arrangement based on reciprocity'?... Dunno!
How
to check the emotional trust?... By offering vulnerability?
How
to check the spiritual trust ?... Forget that 'Guru's' trust
worthiness, for a while... How to make sure that the meditations
are really going to work?... Okay, it is a bit subtle.... But at
least those awkward postures, the yoga aasanaas? What are the
risks?... Is it 'really' safe to depend on printed matter, the
'do-it-yourself' kits?
What
are we going to do with our own trust worthiness?... When we offer
it 'just like that'.. it becomes 'vulnerability'!
Somewhere
in between, is it not the 'resistance' that we got en-grooved into
that is placing an insulation, into our ability even.... from
understanding the 'trust' in its varied forms?...
Oh!
To further compound this trust-related issues, the 'love' crops up
as a 'conditional-trust' and complicates the relationships too
inextricably! (Politics abounds in examples, and instances! 'Big'
names seek to join the nascent political party AAP, just because they
are not able to feel that 'comfort-trust' with other 'structures' in
the 'present-form', while the new found trust of the aam aadmi
scrambles to hold on to its trust worthiness .... the very
'conditions within' have not been able to insulate itself against
'virus-uploads' by opponents, when demolishing the structure seems
too 'uneconomical' right now!
'Match
making process' has inadvertently turned itself into a barometer
instead of holding on to its core values of ancient days, when it was
a culmination of trusts of all kinds, and thus never seems to perform
its true purpose, with the onlookers just staring at it, unable to
even note the fast-fluctuating readings that it shows off!
Power
corrupts... is what we used to trust... but a even power-failure is
corruption prone today!
The
chase after trust keeps pace, .... with the 'created acceleration'
that we seem to be so proud of, in the name of technological
advancement, affecting the 'core of life' (the core of life, being
ever unavailable to any kind of 'materialistic-technology')... and
thus perhaps.... ensuring that spiritual pursuits do not get faded
out... When the chase for trust gets too intense, and ironically
... the fatigued mind tends to 'give it up' for a while.... it does
lead towards spirituality! (That was the 'hard way'... The easy way
is perhaps, to try while everything is fine, and yet we are prepared
to 'become intense about it'... but that calls for the climbing over
of that 'breaking point'!!!)
Eventually
yours,
psn
(9th January, 2014)
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