Oh! Nothing to get tensed about really,
right now... it is about where we are...
...
I tried to call it 'modernity'... and
then looked at 'backwardness' ... ('present' did not seem to suit
eitherways, it presented only present problems nothing else,
presently... so the choice didn't occur at all)...
...
We have a few people around us who have
not heard about Higgs Boson particle, even by its popular name....
Some haven't heard about the name of our Prime Minister, or even that
there is such one, leave alone the complexities about knowing if that
person is 'really' a democratically chosen/elected/nominated one!...
If you pick one of those few, randomly, and ask their name, they
happen to mumble something... you make out something of what you
'get' to hear and repeat it to him, to get some confirmation......
That person's counter-repetition(to confirm your
call-back-for-confirmation), may not match either his own first
attempt, or your call-back of what you had heard first.... Now you
turn to others around and ask this person's name, others churn out
yet other sound-form! (I am speaking of our fellow beings who are
not so particular about their own names!).... But, these
less-name-fellow-beings (not name-less please), are good at basics of
life usually!
Now I wonder who is modern or who is
backward?.... Somebody who knows Higgs Boson may not know whether
his stomach is hungry or it is empty right now! He may not know
whether his 'feeling' of tiredness right now m-e-a-n-s that he
needs 'sleep' or just 'rest' right now? Unawareness of these basics,
does it take us far backwards than the primitive man of old stone
age? Fortunately, honesty about abstract concepts is seldom contested
even in courts of law!
...
Spirituality does not specify that we
have to be 'modern' in terms of Higgs Boson particle or its kind...
(It is our problem whether we acquire and maintain such knowledge at
the cost of even certain basics, that I gave instances of !)
...
All this started because to two simple
questions that I happened to ask my spouse!
- This is in two parts: a) 'If I tell you something in a very gentle way, what are the chances that you might simply ignore it for want of that “proper attention-drawing-tone” in it?' b) 'On the other hand, I use a harsh tone each time, to ensure your due attention to it (in our mutual interest... day to day routine affairs at stake), what are the chances that over a period of time, the very tone fosters a needless dislike towards each other?'
- 'Is there a via-media... a mid way... a half way in-between these two 'a' and 'b' above, to benefit attention , retain gentleness, and other win-win?'
The reply part of it, might render it
taking personal things into public domain... but the
questions(basics perhaps!) by itself, I feel, would only bring us out
of that cocoon, if any!
...
I was wondering, if I had to ask this
.... now.... yet again.... are we progressing, or progressively
regressing? (in some cases, just 'regretting' !)....
...
That is how I got entrapped into that
'tensing' tense!
psn(9th August, 2012)
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