I am a woman.
Many writers have epitomised me as a symbol of love.
But I have no intentions of penning down how beautiful love is, and how horrible hatred is? But in a small and limited journey of mine, I intend to write how love and hatred are integral parts of our lives – and, if not balanced from either side – can make you an exploiter or an exploited.
This journey is about accepting the truth with full heartedness – and then walking the path of harmony – where there is room for everybody – for love and for hatred.
It is hard to believe in people who like being optimistic yet simultaneously hate being pessimistic. How can an optimist tread a path towards “life”, unless she accepts the plausible doubts of a pessimist. In that case, an ostrich with a dug head and a pigeon with closed eyes – are the optimists. Or a person who fights the armies with white flag might be classified as a pessimist. Paradigms of optimism and pessimism are not the actions one do, but the dreams one live. A pigeon with closed eyes might be optimistic about his death, but he didn’t dream about being alive either. Had he dreamt? He would have been flying high with his life! Everybody termed non-violence as a pessimistic’s tool, but Gandhi dreamt of freedom and accepted the truth. And from the truth – germinated the acts – term it optimism or pessimism, you may!
Optimism and Pessimism are two colors of life without which life is not fully visible. Similarly, love is survived by hatred and hatred is survived by love. You can not love a helpless fish if you fail to see her place in the food chain of a hungry scavenger! Beyond these debates of blacks and whites – stands truth – aloof and unaltered.
3 comments:
Goood to see you writing again :-)
Probably I would say that there is nothing called as negativism or pessimism. The lack of optimism in your thoughts or actions is called as pessimism. The lack of light is termed as darkness. There are two ways of looking at the things. Either one can say it is a badly lit room or one may wish to say that it is comparatively dark out here. And I would say there might be very few people in this world who will conduct their actions with a negative intention. Whenever a human being goes ahead with a thought process he tries to complete his actions with a good intention. But it might be possible that the actions done with good intention turns out to be completely unfavorable and one is labeled as a pessimist.
rightly said Saurabh...its intentions or your goal that makes you an optimist or pessimist...favorable or unfavorable results are not parameters to it. It is how one takes those results to move forward. Sometimes, "giving up" is also an optimistic choice if you still carry hope in your heart and your target on your head.
How r u there...and many congrats to both of you for the beautiful baby :)
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