Friday, May 9, 2008

a different sense of similarity

i was sitting in a mall when two kids caught my attention. they were playing a mindless game of jumping all around the place for no apparent reason. these two kids had many "differences", as it is called in the adult world. they were of opposite sexes, and they were of different races. the boy was indian and the girl was from phillipines. they seemed oblivious to this fact and were busy in their self made game. they probably knew everything that is needed to know in order to survive on this earth happily. nothing.
the fact that they knew nothing, understood nothing and cared for nothing, probably was the reason for their complete enjoyment. there was nothing to discriminate them or trouble them. at the end of their little play, they parted ways, with 'byes', 'see yous' and the like. they then turned to their different directions and continued with their respective lives. not turning back and looking at each other or bothering where the other went. this is probably the perspective adults should take up. maybe we should all stop prying into each other's lives. they didn't and i am assuring you that they both slept through the night comfortably, unlike most of us. we all worry about what the other is doing at the particular time or why someone said what they did, and whether they really meant it or not.
those children needed each other at that particular moment and not after that. and they realised this fact and lived up to it. i am not saying that we must use each other and leave. i am only trying to stress the fact that sometimes, in life, we must take things as they are and stop looking for deeper, unintended meanings. this probably might be our anti-stress capsule.
or maybe it won't be. i wouldn't know. because, if i did, i wouldn't be here writing this. i'd be in some happy place enjoying my life, not looking for companionship from a goddamn computer screen. right?

DOOMS DAY!

i was just wondering what value we have of our own life? many people fear death. still many embrace it. what is it that we fear the most? the loss of our loved ones or the loss of our own life? there is this calendar called the "Maya calendar". apparently, there are five predictions been made through it. four of which have come true. the fifth prediction states that "Dooms day" falls on Decemeber 21st, 2012. the meaning of this would be that the world will come to an end on this fated day. something like what happened to the dinosours millions of years ago will now happen to human beings. does that mean anything to anybody? most of the world is dismissing it. ignoring it. living with it.
i don't think i see anyone making any changes in his/her life to accomodate this fact. i am not saying "save the world" or "stop global warming". i am one of those people who lives with such facts. i am not, for one second, going to believe that there is something that can change this happening. it is going to happen if it is going to happen. i am just wondering whether or not the situation should be like in the movies. something like what happened in movies like, "The day after tomorrow", "Invasion", and other such. i mean, the entire world came together and people were telling people they loved just how much they loved them. should that not be happening? even if the world is not really coming to an end. just the thought of this should elicit SOME reaction. any reaction. a reaction. i don't know. maybe i am being stupid. (as usual, some would say). this probably means nothing, but, somehow, i can't help but wonder. :-)