Existential Gadgeterism

24th August 2005

A popular song is blaring out of my television set, which I rarely watch nowadays. Ironical, since I work in the very same media, though not in the same content and context. Thankfully. I suppose that is what life has become – your body and mind bequeathed to a plethora of gadgets –propped up by the scientific guys – who create things which may not really be adding anything to the life of yours if you are trying to make it meaningful; but surely will sub you into a thought process that is transcendental in nature in that – you are no longer owner of your own mind. The irony of it all, at least if science had become an obsession one can understand, but from being of service to mankind and catering to the needs of people, science now creates new needs and necessities, which are finely marketed to make you feel deprived and live in a constant state of uncertainty – which finally gives rise to the need of more products and more pockets to fill – be it in the name of science or markets. And a greater need to find GOD arises out of it. Quite anti-climatic for those of us who think we are scientific and rational and believe all this talk of God as an unscientific bull-shit.

Insanity of Life

Insanity of life...living, doing, being...at the end...leaving. Meanwhile, bothering, wondering,worrying, wandering, about uncertainities and unpleasantness, unwanted outcomes...hmmm. Finally, every thing ends...death is the only certainity. Yet in the dreamland state of seeking, wanting permanance, wishing that things that are good would last for ever, unpleasant situations to disappear....can that be held under control? Never, but some say, thinking positive helps to create positive effects on one's life. True to a great extent as I realise with some practice. But we want all of it to be perfect, cursing things that are imperfect, wishing things were better....was in that boat for a while, a long time...but as I look back, all that imperfections were the process of chiselling, a perfection of being...to accept life as it is, and to take things in our stride. For that is the only thing that can be done...to change the way we look at things, to change the way we react to life...for life is a continum, a learning zone, and we keep failing until we learn to flow with the tide.