The moment we step out of the house
(even if it is a 'home' indeed!), we resolve to deal with
'everybody', a little more effectively!
With a targeted audience, the 'dealing'
is preconceived... where as with 'chance encounters' we leave to our
emotional-disposition, of that moment, about how to react.. ...
When indoors, we seek that little bit
of emotional dealing too...
The 'indoors' ... if it is a home, we
'expect' an exclusivity of 'commercial' angle from the others, while
we merely camouflage ours! If that 'indoors' is an office (a regular
meeting place), if it is a madhushaala (dumping emotional garbage),
if it is a court-room, a quasi-judicial authority(about to adjudicate
an appeal against his-own-orders!), the emotional aspect of the
'dealing' is bar-gain-able!
Why do we 'need' to deal at all? (a
lone dweller on an uninhabited island, doesn't exactly deal... he
'meets' a situation!)...
A life-timer, inside a prison cell, finds the need to 'deal' with his several-of-caretakers, so that he finds a 'little-bit-of-freedom' (the “basics” is still the same, he is a life-timer!).. The warden, the watchman, the kitchen-food-in-charge... if dealt with well... it affords some 'rest' to his nerves!
A life-timer, inside a prison cell, finds the need to 'deal' with his several-of-caretakers, so that he finds a 'little-bit-of-freedom' (the “basics” is still the same, he is a life-timer!).. The warden, the watchman, the kitchen-food-in-charge... if dealt with well... it affords some 'rest' to his nerves!
Are we not 'life-timers' on this
planet?
Are we not 'watching' a baby, all the
time... instead of just 'guarding' it, caring it... (the baby gives
us a 'look'... as if seeking approval for a mischief it proposes to
undertake!... It clearly tells us, “hey, I am right-on... into
your class... getting trained, ... 'how to serve a life-term' on
this planet!)...
Some of us, really keen to 'free'
themselves a little-bit... like those famous 'Nagpur Oranges'...
the fruit inside is a bit free within the peel, when it is
excellently-ripe!
Freely yours,
psn(13th of April, 2015)
post script: (Oh! During my visit to
Mumbai, which was Bombay then... A trip in a local train, made me
think of bulls and buffaloes being taken in an open truck to the
market for sale... they stand with ropes tethered to wooden bars
fixed across the upper edge of the truck's side-walls... In that
train, people hold/hang-on... to the bars, packed... standing with
eyes 'transfixed', looking into nowhere...! They too go to the
'labour-market' , sell their energy/efforts... back in the same
way... in that local train, packed like animals... indifferent to
each-other! No dealings during the 'commuting'! Coordination,
between two humans, is a matter of chance! The word 'coordinates' as
a concept, has wonderful sense/meaning... The location gets 'fixed'
if the coordinates are accurate!... In ancient days, any 'sensible'
ritual gets started with 'fixing' the coordinates well...
“Mamo-paatha-samastha, duritha kshayadwaara..” etc... May be
those ancients looked at 'subtle levels of coordination'!).
7 comments:
nice one naraynanji! Interesting you felt like buffaloes in Mumbai train - I used to think of more as an ant, people running more like ants following usual trails. I think sociologists and biologists even computer people now a days, some times wonder whether body of an ant is the body of that ant or the whole community of ant together should be considered as its body.
Do you not feel that "dealing" or "meeting the situation", any way both are just games, a game created out of restricted vision. Real game seems to be more in trying to improve the vision. Until one tries to seek end there seems no end. Is that not any way usual in any deed. End does come when often when one is not even seeking it -and comes more as some sudden brightness -often also without even being realized.
Yes, one has to be..."excellently ripe"....to be a lone prisoner & accept a life-term, being lively alive...
And when that happens, the dealing is of course completely complete...
My Regards Sir.
Only humans choose to "deal"...
Yes, " deal" is a game too!
If only we look at "response" too, as a choice, (epic stories symbolize, amply ... Lord Shiva baffles his colleagues, granting boons so liberally! Our corporate bosses "deal" with requests for pay-raise! Recently, one CEO, cut his own salary to fund a pay raise of all staff! A rare gesture, when he attended some happiness course or so!... )
Thank you sir
psn
Thank you sir
psn
"Recently, one CEO, cut his own salary to fund a pay raise of all staff! A rare gesture, when he attended some happiness course or so!.."
yes that I also found an interesting development. very american. in some ways I see elements in USA as it might have been in India long long back-when we were as a culture child.
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