Sunday 21 October 2018

Day 34- not much to say

Hey!

For the past two days, wifi has not been working properly so i was not able to post anything. Also, i did not have much to tell.
I had a very lazy day today but yesterday was interesting. I met three of old friends yesterday after a long time. It was fun. We went to PSR (this is a place in JNU, i really enjoy spending quality time there) and sat for like 3 hours and talked and talked. PSR is like a hilltop, which you get in the middle of a city like delhi. You can sit over large rocks and the fresh breeeze continues to flow through your hair, it is very serene. You can just sit there for hours and look at how small the world is.

It gives you a perspective to think about things when you look at them with open eyes and mind. One big problem with my generation and the ones next in line to me is that we are not very insightful. We look at things partially, accept them and then continue to believe them. We never bother looking at the other side. We are in such a hurry to get past the things that we fail to access and reflect upon our own decisions, judgements and situations. We pretend to be cool, not so judgemental like our parents or grandparents. We believe we know everything because we are modern but we fail to see that we do not know how to look at the whole picture. We live in the age of internet and social media, we have lost the power to question. We do not question, we just think we do. We raise issues for the sake of raising them up. Few days ago i saw people updating posts like 'we will miss you @deepak mishra' (former CJI) and there were n number of updates like that. But i am not sure if all of them know what he has added to your lives, which will make you miss him so much. This was the same chief judge you were criticising few days back when the issue of Master of Roster came out. We live in a blindfolded world, where when it is taken out, we see certain things, we accept them and then we are blindfolded again and the story goes on. We never get the whole story and we never bother to go after it. We are just okay with the peeks we get.
This is the reason, we so readily chose to ignore Indu Malhotra's verdict in the Sabarimala case because it was not a popular opinion . We might even chose to call her anti feminism, or use other words like that because she gave an unconventional view which was not popular, not revolutionary and not expected out of a woman. What we fail to see is the depth of her argument?
And this is because we have become habitual to half truths and baised perceptives.

Bye!!

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