Thoreau said, “Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
Sometimes I feel the Gen X is moving towards those luxuries which are positive hindrances towards the development of mankind. We are more inclined towards materialistic things—we love power, money and glamour.
Are we running after mirages? We have never-before technology, the young now earns enough money and are exposed to a variety of wonderful activities which were unknown to the earlier generations. But are they actually enjoying what they are having? Are they happy with what they have?
May be in our journey in search of peace we have moved much away from reality. We live in an illusory world not knowing our identity at all. While trying to unravel the mystery we end up by chasing impossible dreams that lacks the slightest tinge of reality.
We repeat the same mistakes again and again only to feel sorry for what we have done. And often mistakes become a habit only realize that habits have started to rule us. We go on with simple pranks not recognizing the potential problems and emotional setbacks we are going to face because of our habits.
We are unaware of the impacts. We still go on doing certain things. We love freaking out…late night parties and enjoy the long phone calls that break through the darkness of the wild nights. Slowly we get accustomed to those habits. But does this late night gossips have any significance in our lives?
We know not but we go on and on…..And a day comes when emotion intrudes and before we could recognize we are in a new dilemma. None of us know whether love starts that way or those are only loose talks to make us get rid of “loneliness” of which we are so scared of. I fear none of us know what this long late night calls actually signify. But we long for each other, we continue and we never ask each other why we like doing so.
Do we suffer from a misunderstanding that it is emotions that bind us? We hardly try to understand. We carry on several sleepless nights….just to find sleep has left the scene….and we have traveled miles towards an unidentified destination….that the gap has declined and our loose talks are no more confined.
The gossips exceeded with new things behind. Everything comes crafted with desire, embellished and enhanced…. Is it desire then or just a habit? But the talks goes on and another sleepless night.
I wonder do we try to hide something under the veil of friendship.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Late night calls… fragmented discussions and… our desires
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It is true that nobody loves loneliness. It is very scary at times. We take refuge on somebody, we chat, we talk and the cloud of loneliness disappears. We feel good only when we really enjoy talking to that person. And then probably it cannot be called an unnecessary luxury. When it becomes a habit, it becomes a necessity too. And then you begin to miss ... something. It is very difficult to say what it is! You can be at peace being ALONE with somebody, but you canot be at peace being lonely.
everybody want to get spoiled by luxurious materialistic things. we can be alone if we are not satisfied with what we are doing.
no matter what the conditions are, wherever we are but our true soul will be our best companion always.
The meaning of Late Night Calls is only that it kills you loneliness and nothing else.Just imagine u start to take late night calls to kill your loneliness and u start to become habituated to someone's call, then u start missing someone and again u start to feel lonely. Wat medicine u started to kill your loneliness becomes your disease then wat is the use of these late night calls. Best thing is we should try to find pleasure within ourshelves and do something creative rather running behind some unknown destination.
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