A message to a friend
The following is a message sent by me to a friend on Diwali — 31st November ‘24
The only thing I can say is this is too much analysis… In the long term, this will not have any meaning… Most of the things are determined by very few things… Everything else is just a story… Actually a hype… People will live and enjoy… And when it comes to things that delight people… It is the hype of that thing… Not the reality of it… Including IIT, UPSC, Being rich, and even the simplest things like crackers.. if you think about any of these, life will be fine even if all of these things didn’t exist… People used to live even in the 15th century when there was no electricity, the 20th century when there was no internet…
Life would have been fine even if Elon Musk doesn’t launch Starship…
Why celebrate festivals? every day can be just a normal work day…
But I guess we have invented things to play with them… And enjoy it...
Today each one of us wear clothes made my powerloom machine… There was a time when there was handloom, there was a time when people used to make all the clothes only by hand… You may even ask why to colour all the clothes with different colours… Why not just leave it blank or may be all white like Gandhiji or some saint… we made our clothes for delight in the beginning… Now it has become normal…
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Whatever I am writing may seem like a long answer, useless spoiling time… But then it may turn useful… There is some probability like 0.2 .. Now don’t say me that I am still sounding different or testing knowledge… I believe this is normal… Even I would have considered it hard to understand what I am writing right now a few years back… But I don’t know if I am able to make the point…
Most things people do are for two reasons…
1. Money
2. Fame…
But apart from that, there is more that people need like happiness… A small circle of supporting friends… Since our money and fame are of no use if I myself am not happy or there is no one around me who cares about me…
I guess life itself is hype of molecules who created us… Why did stars throw out a huge mass to create a planet… Why did the planet give rise to molecules that create life… It would have been fine if Earth was just rock and liquids… And storms everywhere… Also, we aren’t just alive on our own.. just for us to be born since thousands of generations people fought with like Lions, snakes and monkeys… Went for war… Did endless number of tasks we cannot count… If I trace 10000 generations… There is nothing they didn’t do… For just 100 generations it would be 2¹⁰⁰ which is 1 million if you count for 1000 generations 2¹⁰⁰⁰ would be 1 billion… Guess what… If any of those 1 billion people would not have existed you as a person would not have existed… I am not even counting the cumulative sum… Thousand generations ago there would not even have been 1 billion on entire earth so there is a lot more common between people than they are different…
But it’s the fact they all survived, if any of them would have died before the birth of the next in the chain, the chain would have been broken, and I would not exist today to type this message here… Or to do anything… I would have never knew who is Person A, B and C… Even the IIT… Forget professors… Even if you think about the birth of IITs it was just a thought in Nehru’s mind probably… What if he would have felt that life would be fine… Even if I don’t go and work on such an idea… I support some other party! But I am enjoying the benefits of just a single thought of Nehru… Yes it was just a thought… And now it is so much things for a lot… If Nehru would have thought like BJP that we need to establish vedic knowledge system instead of western science… I don’t know what would have happened… Maybe much better or much worse, Simple things do a lot…
Of, course I am not Nehru… So that my thoughts are going to change the world just like Nehru… But, if you think of the era in which he lived, and in era of technology that I am living, I am living in a much developed and abundant world. And thus, I firmly believe that I am going to hugely greater…
I guess most of my thoughts aren’t even my own… I guess a few things I have imagined which maybe just existing in my mind and nowhere else…
This is normal… I guess…
A shift in perspective makes us think everything as normal…
Another shift in perspective makes us think everything as supernatural…
If you just count greatness of something, it’s supernatural… And amazing…
The opposite is also true…
