At times the heart dares to think. It visualises, it objectifies, it rationalises. Someone once told me, "The heart is just an organ. It is the head that thinks or even makes us experience love". He was not incorrect. However, the area above the heart pains when something hurts us, disturbs us.
Several times, I have been at the receiving end of somebody's ill-formed ideas and opinions. That made me go back to the moot point - "Think before you speak". Rather, it should be inquire and get the facts correct before you speak, because you never know how your words may be twisting the life of the listener.
Our mind is a sensitive part of our being. No doubt, it controls the whole of us, yet it is like an oyster. Even a speck of sand can kill it and eventually a pearl may take form. The oyster goes on excreting juices to get rid of the grain that is stuck in its soft flesh. I have felt this excruciating pain when I have been subjected to such venomous words and gestures.
People have ample time to shop online for shoes and socks. Yet, when it comes to the use of their most essential and by far the most used faculty, they stutter, they falter. It is widely misused and the ill use is performed with much aplomb.
I was once taught that there is nothing wrong or right. It is our perception that changes the equation. My right could be someone's sin. Trying to keep my faith intact in that idea, I would still say that just because the tongue has no bones, does not mean anything that slips out is right. There has to be a check imposed by our intellectual refinement on our power of speech.
The rational part of my brain refuses to accept this argument. Tongue alone cannot be adjudged the culprit. The mind is the mastermind.
Our ideas are, till a large extent, governed by the conditioning which our mind and psyche has undergone since our inception. The biases have already been laid and that is where our education comes into play. Books, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to understand, widen our horizon. We explore and we deconstruct our notions. We need to feed our mind constantly for it to achieve a certain level of refinement and maturity.
However, the fact that disturbs me the most, leaves me disheartened, is how much we lag in intellectual improvement in today's time. We dress ourselves in the costliest and the most fancy labels, we move around in the sleekest of vehicles. Despite, the exterior undergoing radical renovation, the mind is caught in the domesticity of cumbersome lethargy. It is caught in the abominable stench of redundant, age old biases and misconceptions. Each passing day, I am shocked to see how we return to the bottomless pit of stubborn dogmatism to stick to some garbage like notions.
Till the time we do not overcome our tendency to fall for the easy and generic opinions on matters, be it social, political or even personal, we shall come across as vague individuals, who care less about themselves and the least about the social system we are a part of.
A dear friend is fond of saying, "It is all about the get up". Perhaps he also means the mental and intellectual beauty of a person. Else, we are no more than clothes horses and no less than a donkey, trudging foolishly to taste the carrot.
My dear friends, there are no carrots. There is just you and your reflection in the mirror and on the society. So tread carefully, speak sound and think like you know how to think.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
Several times, I have been at the receiving end of somebody's ill-formed ideas and opinions. That made me go back to the moot point - "Think before you speak". Rather, it should be inquire and get the facts correct before you speak, because you never know how your words may be twisting the life of the listener.
Our mind is a sensitive part of our being. No doubt, it controls the whole of us, yet it is like an oyster. Even a speck of sand can kill it and eventually a pearl may take form. The oyster goes on excreting juices to get rid of the grain that is stuck in its soft flesh. I have felt this excruciating pain when I have been subjected to such venomous words and gestures.
People have ample time to shop online for shoes and socks. Yet, when it comes to the use of their most essential and by far the most used faculty, they stutter, they falter. It is widely misused and the ill use is performed with much aplomb.
I was once taught that there is nothing wrong or right. It is our perception that changes the equation. My right could be someone's sin. Trying to keep my faith intact in that idea, I would still say that just because the tongue has no bones, does not mean anything that slips out is right. There has to be a check imposed by our intellectual refinement on our power of speech.
The rational part of my brain refuses to accept this argument. Tongue alone cannot be adjudged the culprit. The mind is the mastermind.
Our ideas are, till a large extent, governed by the conditioning which our mind and psyche has undergone since our inception. The biases have already been laid and that is where our education comes into play. Books, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to understand, widen our horizon. We explore and we deconstruct our notions. We need to feed our mind constantly for it to achieve a certain level of refinement and maturity.
However, the fact that disturbs me the most, leaves me disheartened, is how much we lag in intellectual improvement in today's time. We dress ourselves in the costliest and the most fancy labels, we move around in the sleekest of vehicles. Despite, the exterior undergoing radical renovation, the mind is caught in the domesticity of cumbersome lethargy. It is caught in the abominable stench of redundant, age old biases and misconceptions. Each passing day, I am shocked to see how we return to the bottomless pit of stubborn dogmatism to stick to some garbage like notions.
Till the time we do not overcome our tendency to fall for the easy and generic opinions on matters, be it social, political or even personal, we shall come across as vague individuals, who care less about themselves and the least about the social system we are a part of.
A dear friend is fond of saying, "It is all about the get up". Perhaps he also means the mental and intellectual beauty of a person. Else, we are no more than clothes horses and no less than a donkey, trudging foolishly to taste the carrot.
My dear friends, there are no carrots. There is just you and your reflection in the mirror and on the society. So tread carefully, speak sound and think like you know how to think.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
2 comments:
Books, the hunger for knowledge, the desire to understand, widen our horizon. We explore and we deconstruct our notions.".....very well said Sutapa Kar !!! superb thought, brilliant words, great compilation....words are your best companion and writing is your journey....keep thinking, keep writing.....after all "its all about the get up"
Sutapa.. very intresting... it reminds me of the line from Rockstar's song "Jo Bhi Me Kahna Chahun barbad Kare Alfaz Mere"....
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