CHANGE. It’s the most popular and inspirational word in English now. The person who is associated with the sudden popularity brought in some ‘change’ to this world. Or did he? It's so easy for him to say 'change' but let’s ponder over things and decide if we really want to change and if so what should change.
Let’s start with a few examples. Can we tolerate snowfall in South India? Is that a change worth considering? Or instead of going to a human doctor, we have robots to examine us and give us medicines. Will that suit fine? Let’s get more basic. Whatever we do, can we change the inherent feeling that our respective moms were the best cooks we ever encountered? Or there is a more fundamental change that we can face? Suppose the whole of mankind is not allowed to mate naturally and only artificial insemination exists? Would that be imaginable? Can we change the urge to go get wet in the rain inspite of the sophisticated showers in our bathrooms? Or say that noone is allowed to walk on their feet, they move around in chairs everywhere? Can we change any of the above and then say we are happy with our lives? The answer, I guess, would be NO to each of these questions.
Then why change things? The basic human needs and urges always remain the same. Those can never be compromised. People are never happy when something is changed. We always look back at things in the past and yearn to get those moments back. Why is that every survey taken about the happiness index tells us that people were happier ten years back? Why is it that people still remember Mahatma Gandhi everytime there is an attack on the democracy and peace surrounding us? Lot of things have changed in the past 60 years haven’t they? Why do we follow religious practices that have been defined thousands of years back?
There is only one justification to all this. We have tried to change things in our past and have realised that they have always ushered in more unhappiness and disorderliness to our lives. That is why we want everything to be reverted back to its original shape. Perhaps the most ordered and stable state ever was ‘existent’ just before Big Bang occurred. Everything has gone awry and will keep on doing so. Practically, what we need to do now is REVERT back things. To get back the world that had no problems like global warming, terrorism, energy shortage etc. We face all of these now because someone changed the orderliness. So next time someone promises ‘change’ shouldn't we say no to them rather than welcoming him with hope? Irony that the person who proclaims the ‘change’ won the famous election because he had shown the grit and determination to keep fighting till the end, something that is basic to human nature, and not because he had an African origin or because he was a ‘changed’ human being.
So the buzz word should be changed from ‘change’ to ‘revert’. Yes, resist changes in your life and revert back to the things that you always missed. Don’t stick to things just because your status demands them or because they are ‘trendy’. Do things because you always liked doing them and see the happiness flowing in your lives. See the happiness that you once enjoyed…
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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ARS, i've been reading your blog since, well , quite some time and i really felt an urge to comment on this one. I think, change is in human nature, you mentioned a few feelings here that just never seem to change but how do you account for the million others that have changed and we perhaps never noticed. We are not the same persons we used to be ten years ago. And whether we like it or not we are gonna change and sometimes we may never notice it while its happening, its like a gradual transformation. May be hope plays a role when we make a concious shift from the comfort of routine to the anxiety of something new but that doesn't always happen. It's a fundamental natural law that every particle in this universe tries to attain a state of maximum stability and that holds true for the neurons in our brains as well, they'll keep tending to attain more stability whether in form of comfort or pleasure or even obsession. Now when i started with this comment i thought i would write about how i feel about what you wrote but i just CHANGED my mind. I guess i'll start a new blog ;). Great writing buddy...keep the good work up.
@sohit: i never said that we dont ever change. my point was that whenever we change, we never change for the better. or atleast thats what we feel after the change is made. sometimes changes are unavoidable, say shifting to a new big house. but we ll always feel that we are missing the earlier house and its ambiance. hope i made it clear. more comments are welcome. and hey! you indeed write well. sure do try blogging! and 'trying' doesnt mean you are 'changing' anything! ;)
Well, apologies for pointing out but I guess its 'REVERT'ing and not reverting back that you're talking abt. Right?
rivert i mean..
oops!! guess i got so used to the word rivat hanss that i didnt check the spelling on this one :D thanks.. will change..
I beg to disagree. Your post seems out of context. Change being referred to here is 'Change for good' or 'Change for greater prosperity'.
e.g. After the 1932 elections in the US, there was nothing to 'revert' back to.. there was only 'change' towards better reform so that the Depression never happened again.
Similarily you have to 'change' your lifestyle so that you have minimal impact on the environment. 'Reverting' would mean living in the darkness and living like animals, which is not the answer.
@charlie: i agree that change is unavoidable in the present context, but my point of view was we would have been happier now if we had not changed in the past. and reverting back doesnt mean we go into the stone ages (for all you know, stone age man would have been the happiest!). this is my opinion of things. it might be correct or wrong. thanks for yours :)
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