Hear n’ There

It sucks to do things that you don’t like to, but then there are times when you have to do them anyways. Yes, we always have a choice, but a choice between the ugly and the worse is hardly a choice. Even if you shamelessly market ugly to something as something better than worse. It helps when your conscience supports your actions, by mitigating the unbearable. Then there things that you are supposed to do, about which your conscience or your thought process does not seem to grasp the teeniest of the bit of.

It is not that logic fails, it cannot. People do not care to embrace it. Why? I do not know, because I am not one of them. I hate people who  follow things blindfolded, like sheep following a shepherd. What is worse, they don’t just follow him, but keep tracing his path long after the shepherd is gone. Why? Because everyone else is doing the same. Why? Because you are supposed to do it. Why? Because it is the right thing to do. It is here that I lose my temper. How in the name of anything, can you know what is right or wrong when you don’t even know what you are doing? They proclaim that sometimes things are not run by logic or reasons. I disagree, though I may agree that there are things which have right answers; but our acts must be dictated by logic. 

Why can one not have not have long hair? Why are some things taboo? What perplexes me is, why were things that were taboo ten years back, cease to be sonow? They don’t know when wrong became right and when right became wrong. It is OK to be ignorant if you know that you are so, but it is grossly repulsive ifyou agree to something without knowing what it is or what it stands for. Being wrong is understandable, but not being accommodating enough to doubt the veracity of things and not acknowledge mistakes is a sin.

Few things are absolute in absolute terms. The fact that the temperature outside is 50 degrees on the Celsius scale is absolute on the Celsius scale. Though it actually means that it is somewhere half-way between the freezing point  and the boiling point of water. Something which is green in color to our eyes, may not be the same for other creatures. This just asks us to be flexible in out views. A Brit and an AAmerican can fight for ages over the fact that water boils at approximately 100 as well as 212 degrees, yet both can be simultaneously wrong and right. Does my own example not contradict what I was saying all along? No. Explain to the American about Celsius and the Brit about Fahrenheit; tell them what logic has been used in either case. If either refuses the existence of the other, or believes in the superiority of what he thinks,then he is the sort of person I have been talking all along.

This can apply to innumerable situations. Most people do not know, why we do or follow something. This is what I detest, I will only be wrong in rejecting their way of life, if someone actually tells me what all of that stands for, a reason good enough; not that you must not wear pink, because it is a gay color or become being a doctor is better than a ballet-dancer.

The reason why things change is because of people themselves. Afew among the billions who chose to defy the taboos till they are no longer taboos. Who choose to live their life, and not some one else’s. You can be the shepherd, or be the sheep. If you meek, pun fully intended, it is not because of shepherds; but because of the other sheep.

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