fall and rise well.....

Struggling for freedom in India is a very hypocritic process. You try to build dignity for yourself in the eyes of the very same people whose rules of dignity you want to break. At each step there seems to be so many notions of how people should be, that the main element of development called self-introspection becomes a hideous process , due to the inability to discern if one has face clean enough to face or not. And we all know how difficult it is to accept ourselves in the eyes of our own self guilt and guilt of not fitting into the ‘honor list’ of the society.

No, I wouldn’t agree that what society thinks of us is none of our concern. It is a concern because it is in a community that human has to survive. What rules and regulations are formed in the society, the taboos related to it, the mannerisms of the crowd is all important to understand and accept ; not just to fit in, but also to bring some valid changes to be brought within the structure. Rebelliousness is sure fun, but most of the time it further stiffens the very system it is revolting against.

I am glad to be born into the era where people are taking up courage to bring significant changes into their society; be it in middle-east struggle or our own country struggle against corruption, liberty to express oneself and rebelliousness against the taboos of the past related to relationships, lifestyle ,sex and faith.

Somewhere people organize slut walk campaign with slogans “ teach them not to rape us, don’t teach us what clothes to wear” and somewhere people called moral police ,protector of Hinduism and nation burn shops selling cards of love, beat couples walking hand in hand and gets violent when people succumb to romance on valentine’s day. Times are changing, x –gen who understand that moving ahead with the time is wisdom are struggling to find acceptance from the youngistan while intending to preserve the social dignity codes they are following, while youngistan is trying to feel independent by trying to prove x-gen their existence by breaking the rules of existence that had been so lovingly preserved in the name of honor.

I am glad, people are taking drugs, having sex, wearing clothes they want to wear, eating what they want, living as they want to live. I am glad I am born in kaliyug – the dark time, amidst the crimes at peak , and amidst the time when humans are getting bold enough to experiment and fail rather than preserving outdated customs and failing. I want us to fall down, get injured and learn the better way to live rather than take the safer way of living as dictated .

Lets not deny our greed, lets not deny our lust, ego, arrogance, insecurities, lets see them on our face. Lets have courage to accept the things we have named ‘ vices’ , why shun them, they have been existing since we existed, so instead of forming chains over them, killing ourselves over avoiding them, lets accept them in our lives and begin something new.

After all light exists in dark , and when nature accepts both, who are we to avoid it?