The fine line keeps on getting
blurred often.
I always believed that good and
bad are like black and white, distinct and apart, but life keeps on attempting
to teach otherwise. It teaches that good and bad are separated by a fine line
that often keeps on getting blurred.
Is all that is on the side of the
powerful, superior or the wealthy, good and all that is not, otherwise? Is
there not an absolute definition of good or bad? Are we to go by the general perception
of the public based on what they follow or practice or is the voice of
conscience the better and the ultimate arbiter in the tussle between the good
and the bad?
Is the system superior to the
objective? Again a question that has no straight answers; a question that all
those in the service of the sarkar keep on grappling with almost always. If the
system comes in the way of achieving the objective, what are we supposed to do
with it, still follow it or give it the go by. What we do, then actually
defines what is superior and more often than not, it would be the system not
the objective.
Then how the hell the country is expected
to make progress in the true sense is what I always wonder. And the very fact
that most of us either do not care or do not appreciate this basic premise is
what exasperates me.
The tremendous energy that all of
us have, gets dissipated without making the contribution it should, to the
society at large. And that is tragic.
Remaining busy shuffling papers
is not how I view my life should be. Paperwork is meant to merely a mechanism
of making things happen, not an end by itself. And therefore it pains me when
papers are merely shuffled around and we remain engrossed in a maze of files,
meetings and discussions while organizations and the nation stands still.
Injustice and lack of basic
concern for humanity is also what pains me. Is life deigned to be like this as
ordained by the almighty, or what we generally witness is the aberration? What
is the purpose and what is the grand design of the lord in creating the human
life, life that appears to me to be the epitome of imperfection.
These and many other questions
bother me, more so because there are no real answers to them.
Amen !!
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