A thought occurred in my mind, who am i?
I kept on asking myself - Dude who am I. Me myself and I. Who??
A son, A husband, A professional or whiz kid. It then occurred to me that everything that I think I am is just a illusion created by me to manifest my sense of ego and self worth. I am just a plain human being who got influenced by the hypocrisy around and schemed my status to be one of those whom I followed.
I hope every one would agree to the fact that when a child is born he is innocent and naive to understand what the world is and how the things besides him are behaving. As he grows with each and every next step he learns new things which builds him, his character and his beliefs. But why are people so tied up in these beliefs that they lose contact with the natural them. The same old kid who naively smiles even at the tiger looking over it as its prey.
Fear, frustration, expectations are all big words which we are not born with but have grown with it. Our life is not as we decide it but the way the situations makes us. No one is a criminal or a saint. A criminal has accepted his way of living and is very well appreciated amongst his peers who would otherwise lay no stone unturned to humiliate or mock the saint. Its not that they find pleasure in it but they have seen the wrong path and accepted it as the right way. Something similar to the way we gujratis pronounce `pen` as `pain`.
A quest to find the answer to who am i might sound simpler as a basic interview question "Tell me something about yourself" but when you get into the thinking mode you would realize how deep is the impact of the question.
Do think about it.
I kept on asking myself - Dude who am I. Me myself and I. Who??
A son, A husband, A professional or whiz kid. It then occurred to me that everything that I think I am is just a illusion created by me to manifest my sense of ego and self worth. I am just a plain human being who got influenced by the hypocrisy around and schemed my status to be one of those whom I followed.
I hope every one would agree to the fact that when a child is born he is innocent and naive to understand what the world is and how the things besides him are behaving. As he grows with each and every next step he learns new things which builds him, his character and his beliefs. But why are people so tied up in these beliefs that they lose contact with the natural them. The same old kid who naively smiles even at the tiger looking over it as its prey.
Fear, frustration, expectations are all big words which we are not born with but have grown with it. Our life is not as we decide it but the way the situations makes us. No one is a criminal or a saint. A criminal has accepted his way of living and is very well appreciated amongst his peers who would otherwise lay no stone unturned to humiliate or mock the saint. Its not that they find pleasure in it but they have seen the wrong path and accepted it as the right way. Something similar to the way we gujratis pronounce `pen` as `pain`.
A quest to find the answer to who am i might sound simpler as a basic interview question "Tell me something about yourself" but when you get into the thinking mode you would realize how deep is the impact of the question.
Do think about it.
