Dear PP,
I just made a statement to a friend that her spectrum of good and bad are more black and white and have little or no shades of grey. Another friend I asked his definition of good and bad and where and how absolute they were, seems he had shades of grey in his sense of good and bad
On that note I would like to delve more clearly into the reaches of what we define as good and bad and what governs our sense of it. I currently live in a society where marriage is not essential for a person to be together and have offspring, in the Indian context that would be taboo and would be looked down upon.
Having said that it brings me to what we base our set of good and bad on. Is it scripture, or is it upbringing. Most religious text dictate a way of life or a way of discipline to life as it may. It rightfully states that which we must believe and practice and in the lives of many is a governing principle for their children. Although children hold their parents sacrosanct and have little regard for the original basis from where their values came from, or is what seems to me.
Though, although we have a set of scriptures that governs life and how we live it, society has an acceptance of and a different interpretation of good and bad. Many a times times governed by polity and the elite, with consideration for the majority. Other practices have come into existence through a mélange of different cultures. I guess more of a reason why people travel to India, to redial their compasses to the right co-ordinates.
Life as it may seem has given a broad spectrum of grey when it comes to good and bad, and our perception of it. Having said that it brings to fore whether each individuals perception, of reality and what we are groomed by. It brings to fore that which governs all thought, in its most primordial form. It tends to reason out who we are and where we are going and what makes us the people we are or hope to be. It is what a father or a mother tell their children to do and not to do. What is termed ok and what is taboo. The does and dont’s that society wants us to know in order to buy and consume their products.
Let me explain further, as explained very rigidly for a photograph to have quality it must have 18% grey.
regards
E
Dear PP, 04-01-2012
As the year closes and I plan my trip to Sydney for the close of a beautiful year, I reminisce a few of the events that were a part of my life this year. Ofcourse some hair loss, or more so a lot of hair lost in the battle to save them, braving nail biting cold (with friends making it a point to tell me how weak I was and that they have suffered much worse). It was a good year, for myself and for those around. The worst or the best part was the speed with which it passed by. This was the year I perfected my chicken curry, from the meat being partially uncooked to it being extremely well done, from the spices having been fried less to all the nitty gritty, I have experimented with it all, with help from my darling motu. Motu was the taster, but mind you motu never goes near non-vegeterian food.
As in life struggle, joy and hope were all sprinkled to make the year a bitter sweet experience. As I arrived in Australia the state of Queensland was going through its worst flood in decades, many lost homes, loved ones and insurance cover. A few months later the Christ church earthquakes and the Japanese nuclear disaster.
Dooms day sayers had a field day this year with scares and movies all depicting the end as being near. But little do they realize the bible verses clearly state that “1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 (NIV) for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”without fore warning. But who reads the bible or any scriptural text.
The grand finale was the fireworks at Sydney, harbor bridge with Motu and friends where new year will be celebrated the first, fire works and the lot to make known the coming of the new year.
Lessons learnt this year:
Life is a rudderless boat, you have to deal with the fact that a plotted course may or may not work all the time, its exciting and unnerving at the same time
You cannot chose the people who enter your life, but you can chose whether or not they stay (old but a lot of experience attached to it)
That coffee from Baristas are have a reason to be there
One mans loss is anothers opportunity
That if you want to change people, you just have to hurt them.
The Americans are just taking moral responsibility for the wrongs that the world perpetuates
Its oft better to be alone and indecisive than to follow the wrong leader
Regards
E
P.S Hope yours was as good as mine!
12-11-2011
To,
My Dearest Pen-Pal,
Dear PP,
How have you been. Was just ruminating about stuff that I had a conversation with a friend during the warm dry afternoon.
Among others we were discussing the diversity of cultures in our individual environments that we were brought up in. Mostly trying to prove each others superiority over the others. Food, literature, way of life were some of the things we discussed.
Information is available in plenty, and as i looked beyond the brick wall that lined the house across the window i wondered whether information prepares you for the real thing. Having it does make one superior in today’s world, but in science it can lead to an overload and more often a distraction. wondered whether information provides the individual the GPS to deal with day to day existence.
Made me wonder how we though different make our way to various parts of the world, yet retain our roots wherever we go, and yearn for things to resemble and experience home.
Love E
