The day before yesterday, I wrote about my paradise. Yesterday, while cooking, I was listening to Phil Collins' beautiful song 'Another day in paradise.' Do we, in our utter indifference or denial, live untouched by the homeless, the hungry and the aged who have nowhere to go? May be we have conditioned our minds so that we can effectively block out the sufferings of others. May be that's why we remain largely untouched by the deaths and destruction. May be denial is our natural protection against insanity. Because even the most compassionate of them all will have to keep it impersonal to remain sane.
Guess I am out of touch with everything right now, so no blog entry for many days. From many days, a question is bothering me. I haven't found a satisfactory answer yet. So I'll write it down here. Maybe anybody who reads this may know the answer. "Just because we are journalists, writers, opinion creators and thinkers, do we have the right to judge others? Either personally or professionally?" I think we don't have the right to judge a person, even if we are right. But as writers, we would have to judge others whether we like it or not. And it's very difficult forcing people to think, but that's what we are doing or pretending to be doing right? Another question: "How come life is so simple if you just let it live by itself without bothering much and so complicated if you try to manipulate it or even understand it?" Blessed are the ignorant. We who can understand everything, try not to let anything go by without understanding and thus miss the b
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