The CHOLAs Chorus – free & random thoughts!!!

Pause for a while in our fast-track lifestyle and think long and hard about what and who we actually are. Whether man or woman we are human. Therefore, frailty, our name is human. With all due respect, my sincere apology to you, Shakespeare, if I have startled and spun you in your grave. Frailty is embedded in human psyche. You and I and one and all are overwhelmed by the self-centred activities of the here and now. We chit-chat about this and that now and then, we expose our outside a lot to cover a tiny dot inside, and we are only deepening our hypocrisy. Isn’t it crazy?

I don’t know that I’m not pure. Or I intentionally fail to realize that I’m not pure. I involuntarily deny myself the opportunity of knowing that I’m not pure. But I know with certainty that you are impure no matter how much you are in disguise. That you are impeccable in manners is a surefire indication that you are just the opposite. That you are elegantly dressed is your compensation for what is actually necessary but wanting. Best expression, tangible or intangible, may be unnecessarily attractive. Cynical? The reality of the situation is that everybody is compatible with one another. The fact of the matter is there is no reason for discord, disagreement and divorce. Then, am I a doubting Thomas?

Let me once again turn to Shakespeare. This time I find solace in him. This time he wriggles and rises up, stands eye level with me and with his shriveled forefinger pointed at me he reminds:”There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” There is nothing pure; that’s why nothing is impure. This reinforces my opinion that we are all fake in actuality. Each one of us thinks oneself is more important and real than others. Many a time we wear a holier-than-thou façade. Scrutinized minutely, we all have an unreal quality to our portrayal. It’s self-delusion. Poor deluded us – we are not only cosmetically modified but genetically engineered as well. Nothing astounds me as our nothingness in reality does. Shouldn’t self-delusion be our name then?

We eat, work and excrete. The chain of input, throughput and output is unbroken. But it’s not like this always. We think one, say another and do either none or quite the opposite. This is overall and universal no matter who, what and where one is. The untruth is omnipresent, sometimes perceptible and sometimes not. Are we then not guilty of deception and psychological trickery? Let’s comfort ourselves with this: ‘Anyone is innocent until proven guilty’. The certainty that each one of us is guilty if tested is a dear consolation. And were it not for hypocrisy, many wouldn’t be who and what many are today. Sadly, this is happiness. Ends take precedence over means. As long as the ends justify the means, we are all justifiable because we all end at long last.

Hypocrisy, self-delusion, double standard, you and I – is honesty the best policy? Think carefully and look widely, you may see this: honesty condemned, honest dethroned and the reign of corruption. “God sees the truth but waits” – How long? In the twilight of your lifespan when it’s too late to even repent or in your afterlife? Today only few would care what happens in the afterlife as long as you are happy presently, at whatever and anyone’s cost. Human recklessness deserving of nature’s man-made wrath! Because we play false, nature plays fair.