When one starts to boast that he/she has figured out what life is to some extent and now sort of sorted-for-life then “boom” comes a news which makes one again wonder about – all that one had come to terms with. We know that fickle fate can’t be fought but still it never fails to punch you hard in the gut when unexpected and unprecedented happens – be it careless corona or everyone’s idealistic idol Irfan’s death.
Cryptic Corona virus and the bodacious beer firm Corona ruled and rocked memes world effortlessly given the situation and state of mind. Sad that latter had to stop the production. Not heart-broken by product unavailability but definitely by the havoc that lack of livelihood can create among firm’s employees. Vicious virus seems victorious at the moment by successfully breaking all hell and haiwaan loose.
If history is of any validation then we humans know how to bounce back – we are engineered that way – Our resilience quotient is admirable. So, no any damaging doubt about we not vanishing from this planet but it’s gonna be a tough fight given that we morons have pushed the – all-powerful nature to reach a stage – where its survival instincts game is at an all-time high.
Nature has literally given the verdict that it doesn’t give a rat’s ass to our presence – We are dispensable. We better slow down and lay low till Mother Nature recovers and rejuvenates. Learning here is that choice and clarity are inversely proportional – No option implies less obscurity and so we all have just STFU & surrendered to nature’s call. We can continue to blame china and create conspiracy theories but given the extremes we all were operating in – it was high time that nature took the control to bring back the balance in some mysterious ways. Sadly, it chose china for this clean up.
If a person’s death becomes personal even though you don’t know the person personally then that special he/she had the power to cast a spell on us and was definitely a divine soul who was chosen for a purpose. Very few are blessed with charisma to affect and impact emotions effortlessly. Death doesn’t have the capacity to take them away completely. Their effect will continue to live on in the form of wisdom or entertainment forever and continue to engage us till our last breath.
Above again proves the point that human expression of any form be it written text or motion picture or painting or music etc etc can enable and empower human evolution if it connects even after the human who created the expression is no more. These expressions have got the power to put us at ease when we feel that our lives are in ultimate tailspin. They act like free of cost therapists. We all owe a huge amount of gratitude to all those generous souls who bothered to express at some point in some form and archived it for us to experience it in some other era.
Technology made these magical and miraculous expressions accessible and affordable anytime anywhere. What more can one ask for? We are simply lucky son/daughter of bi***es (S/D OBs) to be living in such good times. It takes some amount of seasoning to understand as to why any exceptional art form is timeless and can connect even after – thousands of years after its creation time. My take is that art becomes generalized because it was personalized heavily by someone at some point in time.
Only when we start to feel things at personal level – words flow effortlessly, actors emote easily, lyrics get penned, and music gets composed. We are more similar than we are different (quote by pierre cavalan) and hence a particular feeling that was personal to one individual at some point and expressed as a song, poem or a tech innovation becomes generalized to all – we all feel the same shit at the core.
Feelings can’t be borrowed, rarely manipulated and hence one is very much oneself when expressing it and it’s so authentic/pure devoid of all conditioning that it can be felt by generations to come
Note: Haiwaan – person who behaves like an animal