Society

This is an extension of my previous blog, 'Trust'...

We have a society around us, a group of people whose lives are intertwined with our own lives. A society would have been 'Lovely' had it not been the narrow mindedness of people. A narrow minded person does not accept another person who has different perceptions about life as one of them, they are outcast, gossiped about, dissected in everyway possible.

I saw a family a few weeks back, a typical Indian family. They have come to visit their children in US, and what hit me strange about them is their constant rambling and complaints about American culture. They had a problem with 'Americans smiling at them when they passed by' (What! They like frowns and scorns on people's faces), problem with the word 'Eggplant', problem with the whole of American culture. People!!! Who the hell asked them to come to US or send their children to US when they have such a big problem with this lifestyle??? Oh, we need all the money we can get for our RA/TAs, big jobs, money from american economy but we
won't even try to respect them... just because their culture is different from ours.

There are so many beautiful things in this world, so many... but people get pleasures only from the worser things of life. Believe me, 90% of the things which they find bad are not even bad, they are just different from what they think. They just can't stand it, People loooooooooooooove gossip, aah, hearing about another person's bad qualities is like honey to them. It just makes them feel so good about themselves. God only knows why!!! The truth is unimportant,
only the bigger the issue, the better.

Every person has their own dictionary of right and wrong - Principles are not important in life but making sure we never hurt another person and respecting every person's perceptions of life are what is important.

I know a girl once, very long ago - she was more than straightforward and at that age, when I first met her I just didn't like her but with time, gradually as I got to know her better, I realised
that she is one of the most humane persons I ever met. She was very strong and very unconventional, so indifferent to the people around her. She was amazing, not because she was unconventioanl but because she didn't suck up to anyone, she didn't try to impress anyone but still she was so nice, in her own way. When will people learn to be more like her, to shed away their masks and be what they are. And more importantly, love and accept people as they
are.

Giving pain to another person is the biggest evil - Deceiving a person who trusts us to death, being plain rude to another person, saying things we ourselves would never be able to hear, all this and more, pain kills a person........... slowly, it kills everything. I, myself have not been able to stay away from this evil. Many times, some knowingly and some unknowingly, I brought pain to some people's lives.

People are never going to change, not for a long time... Life will always stay unfair!!!Hehehe... Another question is why am I wasting my time worrying about these people?? Why don't I just
forget about them? ;) I try to see the beauty of life and ignore the ugliness beside it. But still, all our lives are so closely related to one another, I just can't run away from it. How much I may try to close my eyes, there's always something which would force my eyes to open and look at this dreadful world. The anger wells up and I write this blog just to forgive them, just to forgive myself, so that I can forget all about it and again 'Give attention to the beautiful things of life'.

Till then,