For thousands of years, intellectuals, leaders and philosophers have tried to change the world and the ways of the people. But the irony is, people who started following them attracted by their ideologies, later started worshipping them. This is how an ideology slowly metamorphoses into religion, which ultimately defeats its very purpose. And with the new-found rituals, the parent ideology and the person who was its advocate slowly evaporate, leaving behind the residual meaningless or symbolic rituals and practices and persons.
“ What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” -- Jack Kerouac (American Poet and Novelist) From what I have seen and admired in humans, they are eternal optimists. Goodbyes seem to break us, but we straighten up and walk, holding our head high, blinking away our tears. And as regards the specks of people dispersing, when something moves away, something else comes near. Guess that's how laws of nature move. If a time comes when nothing else comes near, it's when we will become really alone; alone to live and love life without any reason, taking the next step forward.
Comments
Post a Comment