The quest for success is on everybody’s mind. The quest for cool is everybody’s aim. But is this aim becoming too mindless? I mean, are we really trying to achieve coolness and success for the sake of it or do we actually have a deep-seated purpose which looms much larger than the petty successes of life?

         The world is mainly filled with people who cannot think for themselves and are too depended on others to do the thinking for them. It’s for these people that schools and colleges have been made. And to be honest, these institutions are run by the same people as well! So where does ingenuity, creativity and the likes stay? They don’t stay anywhere. They just move along from one place to the other in search of acceptance and love. They are “freaks” and they are nonsense, because they speak in a different language, and the rest are too dumb even to try and decipher it. The rest are just plain dumb who have peanut sized brains and precariously hold on to the seats they occupy. They are too happy daydreaming about the system and how it has given them life and living and how they can never have enough praise to shower when given an opportunity.

         I feel sorry for these dumb, irritable people of this earth. I feel even sorrier for those who have kids but never bother to learn from them the immense potential of human thought and action, but instead are more satisfied imposing strange rules and killing the talent in the bud. It is a pity, nothing less. What pleasure they get from it I know best. To kill the move, to act wisely, to be the saviour of the vulnerable gives them immense satisfaction. But who is the vulnerable in such a situation? Is it the smart and desperate kid or, the irritated and uptight old fool?

         How can man be so blind? Considering the fact that only perhaps one in one hundred in physically blind, you will be astonished to find out that the rest of the ninety-nine are mentally blind, and that blindness is undetectable and incurable. The average blind man lives with it in the hope that other blind men like him will help him and they will all live together in blind mediocrity. Strangely enough, nobody shows sympathy when you are mentally blind and when another blind man exploits you, you stand exploited without a question. Such is the system of blindness. It’s chronic and it’s catching fast among all of us before we can even know its there.

         But, there are some who still exist in this harsh multiplicative world standing against the test of time in an effort not to lose the greatest sense that Nature has gifted us. These counted few will not be blindfolded, not at any cost, even if it means torture. After all, every man has the right to know the truth and it is only the class of ‘blinds’ who want to keep all others blind so that they are in control, in check. This small league of extraordinary human beings are the only force still left on the planet which prevent it from sinking into total darkness and into hands of machines and other such thought controlling devices.

         So what is it about truth that everyone wants to hide? It’s not the truth itself but the things tied with it which are of more concern. The secret love affair of the unfaithful husband, the espionage of trade secrets, rape murder and scandals… the list goes on, but to where? Anything done, which will undermine the social position of human beings and bring out the weakness and infidelity of character is bound to fall into hiding and thus suppression of the truth. The truth is often harsh and often very difficult, and why, because the rest are so used to listening to lies that any iota of truth comes as a big shock which may even result in heart attack! What a medical liability. The biggest weakness that truth exposes is the fear of death. Death is the biggest form of punishment for most of mankind and to face death is like death itself. The truth revealed may lead to death, so why die, why not live the ignominious life of a pig for a few more years? And you thought man is the ultimate conqueror of earth, the ‘tiger’ of all species, the king of kings.

         Well, my point here is very simple and straight. Do not be afraid of the truth, and if you commit a crime, face the consequences with a full heart. Death won’t consume you, it will hide its head in shame. It will spare you and accept you as its true conqueror. There shall be no punishment too great to break you and you can always proudly do what you have to do.

Dwaipayan Adhya.