Well
lately i think i have been through a lot. we all go through a lot, almost all
the time and sometime our plate is so full that we do not even have time to
think about what we are doing and how we are doing in this race.
The
constant bombardment of the information which overwhelms is simply amazing and
absurd too. After all why we a want a car when we do not really require it. why
we want to drink alcohol when we all know that it is harmful and also subjected
to abuse of the body.
Wait
let’s start from the start.
We
humans evolved over a long period of time and we had this tendency that we just
can’t stop and wait. The way society had evolved sometimes surprises me and
some time it make me sick as well.(literally, the new kinds of deadly pathogens
which was not there before; are now there)
Now
look around yourself, what do you see ? Switch on the TV what do you see? Take
a walk around neighborhood, may be subway or bus or anything. What I see around
is lots and lots of aspirations. People aspiring to become someone else, like
the ones shown in the advertisements. They aspire for the calm and gentle,
sometimes flashy and Hip sometimes challenging surrounding environment.
In
fact the advertisement if to be believed, these ads are made after so much of
research in to the psychology of the targeted audience that they reflect the
general mood of the age group.
My
point is not the advertisement even it is not about how our mood swings. I will
get to it, please be patient.
Now
lets take another example first to understand the depth of the problem. We all
live in a society, which not on comprises of Humans but of so many things and
each one of us is different from one another in so many prospects (other than
0.1% of DNA). But what combines us is the will power of survival, to live and
to reproduce.
These
three basic instincts makes us more animal than animal themselves. Animal do
not destroy the total habitat of the other species (yeah please leave Dino
crushing an ecosystem of another species)
What
i am trying to say is that do you still fight to survive, do you still have to
think about of your survival every day??
So
the question is now what do you aspire for everyday? Let’s say do you aspire
for your home? if yes then ask why? Do you aspire for a wife? Then ask why
?
what
i found out is that i personally do not fight for survival every day, that
basic instinct we had lost or is being modified into something else for most of
the city dwelling- internet surfing generation.
So
what do we want? Most of us want a peaceful yet happening life(which is again a
paradox), where we have to face challenges but of subtle nature, where we know
for sure that we are not facing the race for survival. that is what i
understood from those advertisement
From
Sanitary napkins to super Luxurious Yachts, (if i leave certain categories of
ads) most of the information which we receive is about out aspiration for
something, which is yet to achieve.
But
at the same time it is what i had observed that even after achieving that we
Human beings are not happy. The illusion of happiness or the charm of happiness
wears out pretty fast and we try to aspire for furthermore which turns into
greed.
In
fact what started from bare survival is now turned into greed and knows no end
this emotion, this instinct actually defines the Elusive nature of life that
you can never get to that point at which you say I have had enough. Now is the
time i need to stop and put all of this to an end. Even if you try to say so,
you are just switching the areas of your greed earlier you may have wanted a
bigger house but now you want a bigger plaque of your name on the front wall of
charity house. As we have evolved as society out emotions has also evolved
about our survival. Now being alive is no more survival, but being in a society
class is survival, Getting to higher class is called living your life and to
reproduce you want to become Alpha in your class so that you get the best
female. Now all of this happens inside an Ecosystem which is result of complete
and utter absurd inflow of information.
We
choose people as life partners based on how much wealthy they are, completely
sidelining the evaluation of their capabilities whether physically
or mentally (actually our evaluation is all about money now). Our desire for
exclusivity is nothing afar from becoming alpha male/female.
We
invented in the circle and after
inventing it we started running in circles. First we want all the
eventful life in which we face new thing daily, then when we get that we came
to know that is not what we wanted (reason may vary but end result do not) and
we starts aspiring for something else which is something else and when we reach
to that point we come to know that our initial position was better as we are
logically equal to the start. and in nutshell this is what i say Elusive nature
of life. I know it is jumbled, not very well written but if you had read this
and are not confused then i should say you have got guts!
