And here we go again...
Yes,well today was a decent one,but again I suppose I was caught in a dilemma...
How far is it true that violence is an inevitability?
Well I am caught up in two different conflicting ideals,pacifism and realism...
Great pacifists like Mahatma Gandhi propounded that war is an immature and unnecessary resort to solve a dispute...
I used to have faith in that,but now I see more and more realistically,and have uncomfortably come to perceive that notion to be conflicting and not entirely practicable...
More and more study into the historical,political and the socio-economic conditions of human civilizations show that violence is an inevitability that man resorts to,time and again,to fulfill his goals and ambitions,and also those of his state...
The leaders of the world speak of diplomatic solutions to all the problems,then I don't comprehend the necessity of the frenzy over the arms race,which is gross violation of their own commitments and promises...
Yes,if we question this to one individual,he may reply that he would stop,but he can't trust that others will,and that keeps the one who is ready to stop also to go on...
Till when?
Well,we live in a society which amalgamates all kinds of individuals,democracy as they name it,and in democracy you are bound to have decent citizens and statesmen,but more than the availability of these human assets,you may find an equal or more voluminous amount of the rotten lot,who despite the outcry from the masses to stop this violence,will continue to wreck havoc for their own selfish designs and ends to be met...
What are they driven by but jealousy,hatred,disloyalty,greed,misguided ambition,suspicion and paranoia?
And it is not easy to attain the goal of a peaceful world where all these emotional negativities exist,and till man exists,these emotions will linger,if not in you,in someone next to you at this point of time,and there are really few individuals who have actually mastered these evils which are more deadly than all the nukes put together,and it would be foolhardy to expect every single person in this whole world to actually attain that state of pacifism...
Yes,I do think this is a depressing monologue,I don't mean to say that one must do war,but accept the fact the fact that war is inevitable,to someone,somewhere,at sometime...Although,what one must remember is to be tactful enough to avoid its manifestation in reality for as long as possible,because taking life is easy,but giving it back,impossible...
Yet there exist people who hope,people who think peace is possible,people who have been innocent enough to believe that peace is a permanent solution...
Well,I used to be one among them,but now I am too overwhelmed by contradictory evidences to accept that fact...
Knowledge is a wicked thing,it makes you see things others don't,but it also ends up making you feel things others don't...There is nothing as ghastly,as cunningly disguised a thing as knowledge,because at the time you are in the possession of great truths and realities,you lose something, you lose your freedom,your lose your sense of idealistic well-being and optimism,its always been my perception that cynicism was an unintended by-product of the process of gaining knowledge...
Yet I still feel,all that is good on earth,is in the hands of those few innocent,who believe in those ideals,who have the courage to hope,who have the tact to feel optimistic,who have the strength to be happy and who have the life flowing through there veins which helps them smile...
The earth is still a happy enough place to live in,because of those people,who have embedded a tiny ray of hope in my heart,and gave strength to give this realistic,practical mind a good fight with their idealistic hearts...
As Blake rightly suggests,it is the innocent who pass on from mundane to the realm of God,and it feels right to me, to say,innocence is a synonym for purity of thought and soul...:)
© Karthik Adithya Singaraju
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