by Awdhesh S | Jan 11, 2021 | What is loneliness?
“Loneliness is hazardous to our health. It’s a shame that despite technology and access to anyone you wish available at our finger tips, people still complain about loneliness. People even write poetry on this topic and have glamorized it. While one may choose to spend quality time alone from the crowd for some time, too much alone time becomes a habit and then one becomes lonely which isn’t a good sign.
Solitary confinement was one kind of punishment and was considered worse than physical torture. This causes severe damage to the brain. It can make people mad.
Humans are meant to be part of a group.
Those who are lonely are also in some form of solitary confinement, which later results in mental health issues like depression.
It is understandable that nobody chooses to be lonely, however, part of the problem is the person who is lonely too.
People these days are just plain lazy to pick up a phone and talk to someone they know. Just a ‘Hello…hope everything is okay?’.
Most people seem to wait for everyone to inquire about them but nobody inquires about others. I have experienced this all my life too. I am yet to connect with anyone who would bother to inquire about me without selfish interest. That doesn’t stop me from connecting with new people.
However, I did not choose to be lonely. I do not believe that one must interact only with people of the age/social status same as theirs. I try to have small talks anywhere I go. Restaurant owners/people I meet in library and sometimes even strangers I meet at malls while waiting in the queue.
It is always advisable to have some human interaction. It need not be necessarily with your romantic interest.
Sometimes, people who feel lonely must do a self-introspection. What is it that is causing them to be lonely ? Is it their own self-esteem ? Are the people who hang out with not really reciprocating or ignoring them ? In such case, one must understand that not everyone is evil in the world. They must cut off people who ignore them and try to connect with people who are approachable.
Learn to make small talks. Just a sweet smile and ‘Hey…How have you been ?’ opens up the door for a conversation. Show some excitement in the conversation. Compliment others so that they like interacting with you. This will change the perception you have about yourself.
Never stay lonely for a long time. There is someone like you out there who has been waiting for a long time for a human, even a stranger, to just say ‘Hello, How have you been?’”
by Awdhesh S | Jul 6, 2020 | What is patriotism?
“We take patriotism to mean love of nation and the loyalty that follows. My country right or wrong. Even as an abstract idea, it is hard to see how thinking people justify blind loyalty. And considered historically, patriotism is plainly dangerous, helping to unleash military rampages in the name of nation and obliterating the essential democratic capacity to assess concrete and particular interests.
The ubiquitous loyalty to nation-state is puzzling. How is it that people become passionately devoted to the abstraction of the state and its symbols? Propaganda could not be the human condition, such as the attachments most feel for kin and community. And perhaps nationalistic propaganda acquires the force it does because it draws on these axiomatic attachments.
Still, there is a difference. However parochial the ties that bind people to clan or place, these ties have something to do with the concrete experience of people, so that threats to clan or place can sometimes be assessed by direct experience. Not so with flag and nation. When state leaders appeal to patriotism, they mobilize citizens by invoking foreign threats that cannot be assessed by ordinary people, except sometimes when it is too late, as in the aftermath of war. In the process, not only are people made to sacrifice lives and resources to the contests of state-makers but the emotions generated overwhelm popular capacities for a reasoned and conflictual domestic politics. Never has that been more obvious.”
by Awdhesh S | Jun 3, 2020 | The Future, What is the greatest threat to the future of our species
“The most devastating thing for humanity is FORCING UNIFORMITY. It means imposing the same culture, rule or dharma on everyone in the world. This danger is quite real because every powerful person or group is trying to impose their values on everyone else to bring uniformity in the world.
- The western countries want the whole world to follow the western lifestyle.
- The Islamic nations want their code of conduct to be followed by every one
- Buddhists want everyone to follow Buddha’s life
- Christians want people to be Christ-like
- Jews want to follow eye for eye policy
- Hindus want to adhere to their caste system
- Scientists and rationalists want people to discard religions
- Believers want everyone to believe in God
- The communists want autocratic government and no rights of property
- The capitalists wants free market and democracy
The conviction among people that only their perspective is right is leading to all the conflicts in the world. All the values are actually fighting for their survival as they know that eventually only the fittest would survive.
Hence, there is a real danger of one ideology dominating the entire world at some point of time by eliminating the rest.
Such a world would be totally colourless and boring because it is the diversity that gives beauty to this world due to its different shades of colour.
No colour by itself is more beautiful than any other colour because every colour of life has its own beauty and its own importance.
- Excessive freedom and materialism lead to the death of the soul
- Excessive religious disciple also kills the soul
- If everyone becomes a monk or ascetic, who would produce goods and children
- If the world becomes a free market, what would happen to the poor and weak
- If everyone is rewarded uniformly, what would happen to excellence and innovation
- If everyone shuns violence, the status quo of the world would never change
- If everyone follow eye for eye, the world would become blind
- If people lose faith in God, they may also lose connection with each other
- If everyone become rational, the humanity would become emotionless and brutal
Everything exists in this world as a complement to each other like different part of the body.
Let the world not become uniform and homogenous to lose all its life and vitality.”
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