staying.cool

hmmm.. my mom left a comment on the last post. that simply begged me to try and put up another post on the same topic.

while i do not want this to be a place for engaging in a debate of my mom's and my own beliefs, i have to respond to it. it just calls out to the person in me to try to make someone understand what i am trying to say.

i have already given a distinction between religion and a lot of other things in my last post.
at the risk of sounding preachy i am going to try to explain some more of my ideas.
you have been warned.
not that i have been doing anything different till now.

being indian simply means that the mind works on one additional plane a lot better.
the spiritual plane.
while the occult, and the wondering about life, and the acceptance of the craziness is maybe just a little easier for us.
maybe.

but it also adds a level of discrimination in our heads.
that of religion.
weirdly, i have observed that the different religions and even the different communities think differently in india. not everyone.. but a sizeable majority.
so don't start riots out there due to this post.

that, at the end of it all, all of us are homo sapiens doesn't seem to matter.
no, he's muslim, this one's gujarati, that other's punjabi, and yet another's tamil. and those all the way over there: they're christian.
how does it all matter ?

the religion is just a path. a different path does not make you a different person. you make the person that is you.
the community is just a group. again, they will affect your behaviour, and to an extent, you. but they do not decide what you are. or who you are.
love has nothing to do with all this. its a completely separate entity. after all its an emotion that one feels. and doesn't even realise until one feels it.

one cannot even classify it successfully. one just knows.
its something that we often associate with the heart. rather than the head.
even though, scientifically, thats not possible.
but then, love lies outside any parameters, any ideas that we can ever have.

so why do we keep mixing up the two? we fall in love with the person. not the religion. not the community. and i don't think there is any way of making our soul differentiate between these different “classifications”, that we humans have released among people.
and finally the practicality of it. real love, true love involves a lot of compromise. not actual sacrifice.
i believe, that practically speaking, life is a compromise. between living and dying.
thats an interesting way of looking at it!

the trouble of it all is that very few out there want to accept this. they all know it. but will not accept it.
and thats where all the trouble lies.

because this means that they will not even allow any kind of amalgamation of these two concepts.
and thats what brings all this crashing down.
and that's why love is rarely given a chance.
and that's a very important part of this system.

as well as of life.

laterz

hmmm..god, religion, belief, faith…
love.

weird how they all get interconnected in our heads..and we have to keep confusing them up.
thats also sad.
but according to the “religions” out there, all of these entities are supposed to be the same.
the same.
yeah. right.

they are all interconnected for sure. they all have effects and bearings on each other as well.
but they can't be the same. they can't all represent the same entity. or even different facets of one entity.
we need something called God(or “superior power”) just to remind ourselves that we are not the be-all and end-all of existence. that this world is bigger than all of us. that the universe has existed without us in it earlier. and will continue after we move on.

we need to know that there will be something that will remain through the ages. before us. after us. because there is no other reason for us to believe that everything matters. that there is a point to all that happens in this world. that there is an answer to the why.
i am not saying that this is the answer. it points us towards the answer.

religion is supposed to be the path to God. the key word here is “supposed”. its gone off the path. the idea behind it has gotten lost in all the crap that's come in. and frankly, to me today, it has lost meaning. one will find one's own path when the time comes.
that sounds extremely preachy. damn.

and finally, the belief and faith part of it.
and the questions i asked last time.
can one afford to lose the faith ever ? whatever the circumstances ?
i don't know.

i have found myself doubting so many of the things that i have been taught by my family. i have also found it funny that no-one has ever asked 'why' for so many things.
the most typical answer: “you don't ask why for some things”
and that doesn't work.

about all those affected, my saying anything does not make sense. i am not in their circumstances, and cannot ever imagine their feelings. i can only hope at some point of time they realize that life still goes on. that being human, they have the ability to survive. and that means that there is a reason for it all.
and so one has to continue to believe in life.
and so live.

i needed to get that out of my system.

i hope the new year brings in the many hopes, feelings and qualities that the world has lost. and also that the world doesn't lose what it has now.
ever.

happy new year everyone !

laterz