Not about the turning away from the poor/the invalid/those in need. Not about how we put our desire to drink dark rum over our desire to help them? Pretty early on in the evening, that was judged the easy-to-deal-with issue: ‘I don’t know them and therefore I don’t owe them’, being the guiding principle.
This conversation was about the ones we do know: the ones we claim to care for, the ones we like and love, the ones who give us gifts, who read our writing, who we trade pirated music with... about how we cheat on them, about how we heap our inadequacies on them, how we pretend not to see their cries for help or hear the need in their faces? How is it that we conveniently bypass blame for all this? Is this ability to forget our sins and our mistakes a way of preserving our sanity? Is it by choice that we don’t remember? Is this inhuman-ness part of our humanity? Is this detachment a necessary anchor to live by? Will the burden of our guilt, otherwise prove fatal?
It is at this point that we ran out of ideas to move up the thought chain. What was the point anyways? The resolution, conclusion, stand had been taken by umpteen before me. Knowing fully well that when the situation and the circumstance change, the belief will shift too. Knowing fully well that we will continue to unblinkingly sacrifice conscience at the altar of convenience and carry on with the business of living…
posted by goldfluke @ 1:45 AM
6 Comments:
its a heavy subject i think, what u've written about ... i think the answers vary from situation to situation and you cant generalise. the people in question always have the final answers. and the keys :)
...the business of living…
Brilliantly captured.
So true, it is all about wanting more than you invest- the first rule of business
hash, hash
the business of living....great
but you know what?
me thinks the reverse. me thinks there needs to be a lot more time when one needs to think about nothing at all.
there needs to be spaces when everything all around gets reduced to frivolousness
when nothing really matters anymore
1.45 a.m.
Man, this is a weekday. These are exactly the times for these mad thoughts.
I wonder why these thoughts never happen in the daytime.
Food for thought.
Let me go and grab a bite. hehe
prerona :: exactly my point, convinience always wins, post rationalisation always saves...
justme :: thank u, gujjuben :)
anon :: gimme gimme gimme more such times, i live for them
anon :: these thoughts dont happen in the daytime? lucky you... :)
"how we cheat on them, about how we heap our inadequacies on them, how we pretend not to see their cries for help or hear the need in their faces? How is it that we conveniently bypass blame for all this? Is this ability to forget our sins and our mistakes a way of preserving our sanity? Is it by choice that we don’t remember?"
i think u need more of those types of friends who will clobber u on your head when u next do any of the above to/w.r.t. them. that's all there is to it. u just have been getting too much laaey.
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