BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

CHANGES AND CHOICES

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

The universe was created by a big bang billions of years ago. That incident created zillions of particles which over the years interacted with each other and after thousands of chemical and biological reactions created you. But did it create your soul or your thoughts? Frankly, I don’t have the answer to that, nobody does. It is one of those questions which don’t have an attestable answer.

Before beginning, I would like to draw your attention to a certain concept of dimensions and time. In the world of Physics we as of now have identified four dimensions of space. There are hypothesis of this dimensions adding up to a massive 23 dimensions (String Theory!). Frankly, it would matter very little at the microscopic level or in this case at the human level. The four dimensions that we are aware of can be considered as four coordinate axes namely, X, Y, Z and Time (T, say). Now I am not going into the deep scientific understanding of this axes or any other dimensions, for that you have Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar at your service, rather more philosophical and dutiful importance of this four dimensions that we know of today. 

‘Time once gone cannot be brought back’, is a phrase all of us must have heard at least once in our lifetime. Apparently, it’s true. Consider this, right now you are reading this article on your PC or your phone, you are reading this line or this word or this letter but you don’t realise that you are moving forward in time to read it i.e. you are moving forward in the coordinate axis T. Now you can never go back in time to stop from clicking the link of this article to read it. Maybe the movement in time is not that big in magnitude but drops fill an ocean. Now after reading this article, if you feel amused or have this idea stuck in your mind, then it is arguable that the movement was productive, a time well spent. But, if you feel this article was bullshit and worthless of your time you might consider twice next time to read anything that comes from me. Here on this junction, we come by an idea of CHOICE. Choices that we make at each moment plot the graph of our lives.

 I am here to talk about what happens subsequently when you make a choice, what happens after the graph ends and/or does it really end?

What if I told you that we are living in one of the most rational, safe and comfortable times for humans on this planet? See, no more mindless wars between kingdoms, easy access to health and education COMPARED to the medieval and ancient times, better infrastructure, lower death rate, more knowledge about science and less superstitions etc. For all we know this might be golden age for mankind. Happy hun?  Well you shouldn’t be. We all know that earth is dying and eventually we either have to die here suffocating or leave this planet to find a new home. But the changes as mentioned above are good right so where did we go wrong?

See it makes sense for a jealous guy like Duryodhan to be the reason for the death of such a huge dynasty 5000 years ago but today a guy like that may win the war. Yeah this is the world today. In the words of Jim Gordon, “…Structures becoming shackles, letting the bad guy get ahead…”! Maybe our lifestyles have changed but we are not being “Good” human beings. That is the reason this age is called Kalyuga.

 

Graphically, Better lifestyle ∝ sly mind. That is how the plot of humans looks today! Enough said!

One of the major choices that we make in our lives is whether or not to believe in a deity. Sophisticately, a force that guides and binds everything together. Simply, God!

A still from Fargo

The other day I was watching Fargo, a beautiful TV show which surprisingly had religious overtones and undertones. (SPOILER ALERT!) The story was such that, there was a man who was deep in debts, he had to leave his country and his hometown and had to come to Minnesota with his wife and son running from all the snags in his life. On the way, without food or fuel he sits on the road helpless and prays to God to give him food and bed in exchange for his lifelong devotion. He immediately sees a hiding site of a bag full of cash and then goes on to make quite a name for himself. Long story short, he forgets about the help that God had pondered him with and thus had to lose his son to an accident. I was so stunned and touched by the scene when the man finds his son dead and cries looking up to the sky, that it was inspired me to talk about it.

I believe that God is not something supernatural but just a synonym to the idea of equilibrium or uh… Newton’s Third law of motion. It is science. God is Science. Honestly, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Just think about it. For example, If you study well then you get good grades, if you go to gym regularly AND work out well, you get abs, if you have high internet speed connection, you get better seeds on your torrent files. What goes around, comes around. These are simple day-to-day life examples. Let’s go up a notch, if you smoke, you get cancer! Our actions determine the relative reactions.

We know that the moon revolves around the earth and the earth around the sun, some of you may also know that the Sun itself is moving in space and so are we. This proves that at least two coordinates out of those 4 axes mentioned above change at each instance. Tomorrow morning when you wake up you would have been thousands of kilometers away from the position you slept hours ago.  Which brings me to my next question, are we ever the same? 

Let us look at  an interesting case about the life of Raj and Simran from DDLJ after their kerfuffle in the climax. After a few years Simran is now unhappy with her life with Raj. Let us analyse what might have been the problem. Simran thinks Raj is changed and is not the same as before whereas Raj has no such problem. Now why is Simran unhappy? As explained above, humans are changing at each instance so Raj and Simran must have inevitably changed in the last few years. This is quite apparent. In the beginning of DDLJ, Raj is a pervert and creep who Simran disgusts but eventually she chooses to hold his hand. So much change!! In the whole movie we see a lot of change in her views about Raj. Now here views are changed again as she is now bored with her marriage probably because Raj’s jokes are getting old or maybe Raj is getting old. Was it a surprise that Raj has changed?

 

Here are my three possible conclusions of the reason as to why this marriage is troubled.

       1. The changes in Simran are the reason of this boredom.

       2. The changes in Raj are the reason of this boredom.

       3. Both

You can’t argue to any of that because you don’t know what the problem is. There is a possibility that tomorrow Raj gifts her a diamond necklace and she is happy again. 

Friends, change is inevitable. Something or someone is going to change but I believe that change is in our hands. However big or small in magnitude a change can be, we have the power to mould it by our specifications. Now that shit takes knowledge and will power which all of us might not be aware of, but we have them within us. Our actions and our thoughts can change a lot.