Stereotypes

People all over have their own philosophies of life. These ideologies they form may be influenced by others or......may be not. Well today’s youth are supposedly more mature, more tolerant, open minded owing to the higher amount of exposure to knowledge. Well in spite of this exposure some people prefer to stick to stereotypes that they might have formed owing to societal views on a certain subject. For example let us look at the use of marijuana, although so many facts are readily available on the net and from myriad other sources, people still look at marijuana users as drug addicts, people who are sick who need urgent help. Well guess what, much to their dismay there’s no such thing as a marijuana rehab. No matter how exposed or rational people claim they are today they are smitten by stereotypes, some due to ignorance, others out of choice. "Then why have they banned it " is probably the 1st question that you’d get, counter that and "but still.......its bad for you" is probably what follows. The logic is simple he’s obviously a user and quite obviously he would defend himself. True, but not all users are fools just smitten by the hoopla, some are into vices out of choice. Well let’s take another example we make claims about being open minded and say boldly prostitution should be legalised for whatever reasons. But would any one of us be supportive had a friend or family member taken this up as a career, wouldn’t we bitch about them behind their backs ......or..... may be treat them as social outcasts? I sure would. The problem is most people flinch at the very thought of change, yes man is repulsive to change be it Change in ideas, change in lifestyle or any change that he considers uncomfortable but hey change is part of evolution. They say stagnation is the 1st sign of death and yet we love stagnating...living in our own lil comfort zones. Imagine what the world would be like had we not evolved...yeah we'd be rubbing sticks for hours to start a fire. I call this the irony of life. History shows us that man is the most adaptable creature, that’s exactly why he is found on every corner of this damn planet and yet he resists change. I guess hypocrisy is just a part of human nature but identifying, accepting and atoning is really one of the few things that can help make this world a slightly better place, what say?

Of wolf and man.

Well lets talk about the purpose of man on earth. Well I'm not really sure about his purpose here. May be domination is one. You know dominate anything and everything that comes in his way. Right from animals to nature to even fellow men. As rightly said man in an intelligent being, well he has devised many ingenious ways to try and overpower his fellow men. The apparent reason for this is power i believe, yes power, who doesn't like to be in command, see the world at their feet. He created various channels like religion, casteism, racism, politics etc in order to aid this diabolic plan of world domination. He said he is superior to you, said that the gods told him that and most of us bought it. For ages various casts have dominated, men dominated women, the rich dominated the poor etc etc. The truth was concealed, we started living a lie, people who presented it the best were the ones who were successful. He also created various rules for society to abide by, which was again forced on u. All rules are forced on you, thats why they are rules. Ok one day you finally conquer the world....then what? Besides utter chaos i don't really see any other aftermath. Cauz each one of us thinks we are superior than the other, don't we? may be on different grounds may be language, educational qualification, wealth, power blah blah but we do. TO add insult to injury we make a mockery of the so called lesser mortals. I dont see why cant we just accept that each one of us is just "DIFFERENT" and no 1 is really inferior or superior. In the end were all mortals aren't we. As rightly stated in some poem "The scepter and crown must tumble down, and in dust be equal made with the poor crooked scythe and spade" . Instead of wasting time trying to dominate each other why don't we really strive to make the world a better place. Do you know in our endavour to survive each one of us unintentionally causes some one else to compromise. How you ask? well lets look at taxes for example. well of course we pay taxes, but given the option you'd rather avoid it, wouldn't you? Excuse: Life is expensive, i need the money to sustain myself/family blah. Well u don't pay taxes because u had an option of shrugging off your responsibility and some one somewhere suffers. Even the most ethical business magnates earn their bread and butter at the cost of some one else, directly or indirectly, think about it. Although they may try to make up by trying to fulfill their social responsibility by growing a couple of trees here and there or starting some expensive schools and stuff but that doesn't really absolve them of the damage caused. Well having said all of this i guess thats natures basic rule "Survival of the fittest". Inspite of all the so-called intelligence man has, i believe animals live a better life.

Time

"Ticking away the moments that make up the dull day, I fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Waiting for some one or something to show me the way. I am young and life is long and there is time to kill today and then one day I find ten years have gone behind me, no one told me where to run, I missed the starting gun. So i run and i run to catch up with the sun but its sinking, racing around to come up behind me again. The sun is the same in a relative way but I'm older, shorter of breath, one day closer to death". The above lines by Floyd seem to perfectly portray my life's current scenario. Pandemonium seems to have crept back into my life, i had rid myself of it three years back when i CHOSE to pursue BMS, or so i thought. Everything seemed according to plan, life was right on track. Three years of BMS, another three years of work and finally an MBA from some university in Scotland (which is weird, considering I'm an Anglophile) and I'm set for life. Now unfortunately these universities in Scotland want three years of relevant experience. Well so whats the problem?, u ask......finding a job that provides you with the requisite RELEVANT experience ........These days we hear politicians ranting about how jobs in India are increasing by leaps and bounds, well have we stopped to think of what nature are these jobs? After pursuing a degree in management the least u expect is an appropriate job. BMS being one of the few professional courses offered by Mumbai university, one would expect to have an apparent edge over their B.com/B.sc/B.A counterparts (with all due respect to them) but so isn't the case. Its something like what u engineers would probably feel on seeing them B.Sc IT students grab packages as hefty as yours in spite of that one year extra that you invested. Well enough said, now i guess i should get back to listening to Floyd on the new mp3 player that this "graduate" bought with his parents money.