Thursday, March 09, 2006

Crazy world we're living in


Walking through the gorgeous UCL quad on the way to the library to begin my day cooped up underground with my best friends, Miceli and Borjas, I was just soaking in the beauty of the outdoors when I noticed a hideous paper mache statue of an evil looking boy sticking out his middle finger and with his other hand grabbing his crotch! The paper mache lifesize statues was completely BRIGHT ORANGE as well so there's no way I wouldn't have spotted it. Outside the slade school of art, right under a gorgeous yet leafless tree! At that point, it reaffirmed my current view on life. People are just using excuses to express themselves in negative ways. Everyone's bored of appreciating the good in life and it's fashionable to be 'Bad'. But what are their true incentives, don't tell me these 'faeceas-throwing' porno-artistic pieces of art are substantially justified. How do people actually 'Appreciate' them as art?
All we're doing is living in a world where one person advocates a negative thought in order to evoke some sort of an emotion from the people around him. What has lead us to become a attention whoring society?
What actually started me on this traing of thought was watching The Apprentice (UK version wtih Alan Sugar) a couple of days ago. There was one REEAAALLLYYY annoying chick called Jo, who wouldn't shut up, wouldn't stop to listen to anyone else, chose to refute decisions, and the list goes on...The brilliance of the matter is that, Alan Sugar actually praised her! What he said was that he appreciated an aggressive business person who wasn't afraid to stand her ground and challenge those around her. Ok fair enough, I agree with this point, but does that mean individuals should feel comfortable agreeing to disagree all the time. Are people walking down a path where advocating instigation is the way forward. Does everyone fail to realise that although progress stems from conflict, it is not necessary to voluntarily invoke and advocate this conflict? Since when is a Good Leader someone who barks orders at you rather than involves you.
Where are the TV censors?! Where has common sense gone?!
Why do we fail to realise that every step forward we take by being a bitch, we are actually falling two steps behind in being human.
All these questions I ask are in the positive sense, (v. normative).

The conflict is between succeeding with a goal, and just floating along following the wind.
Hence I remind myself of Miri and Piri.
What I understand from this is the concept of remaining spiritual and fulfilling your transcendental obligations (Piri) while simulatneously making the best of your temporal state (Miri). According to the Sikh concept of oneness of Miri and Piri, sovereignty in both domains (spiritual and temporal) is not distinguishable. It is not unity of Miri and Piri, but it is oneness of the both. That is to say, We need to make the most out of life, but we should not fail to take heed of the teaching's of our Gurus. More importantly, we should not lose sight of our fundamental ethics and morals.

Be unto others the way you would want them to be to you.

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