There have been many things that this year has brought and left with. All the cliches that you can tag it with like good, bad, happy, sad will never describe it adequately. There are multitudinous reasons why I would remember this year forever and a few more why I would forget it for good. Nonetheless, I am me for having lived through another year. Everything we have done or will do seems to be part of a cosmic game- or is it? Feels more like we are the inventors of the game of life and we are the players in it too. The game is not really that simple, just because of the number of players involved. More importantly, it is not simple for the fact that a human response is never dictated by the situation, but is more dictated by our perception and involvement in the situation. The purpose of the game is not to win- life is never about winning. What is a victory today might be a failure few years down the road and vice versa. The purpose of the game is neither not to lose. It is just to live and learn. For now, let us just call it the game of emotions.
At this point I would like to dedicate this post to Shweta, whose statement gave me inspiration and direction on this blog. Things that are seemingly innocuous are designed such that you get to know the other conversant or object of research better. This particular trait is true in every aspect of life and I never really saw it that way until a few days ago. The response of a person is always dictated by logic and reason- nay- it is also dictated by emotions. The contribution of these factors to a decision/response is the ultimate variable and fluctuates between a maxima and minima whose limits are unreadable. Emotions seem to exclude logic, but logic does not necessarily preclude emotion. When the response is so variable, how are we even going to stereotype a person. That is another point where the game is complicated further. The response can never be typified and if you do typify the response, you are sent back several paces in the board. You relearn what you need to and then come back to a spot in life from whence you can stare forward and steer clear of further pitfalls.
Wisdom, logic, clear thoughts, and a perspective help you to move through the board game. But they are not all. Sometimes the presence of emotions and sometimes the absence of emotions help you to move forward too. If emotions vary between 0 and 100% on issues, how do we know what will help us move forward. The simplest explanation seems to be when the mind emotes to a huge extent, ( when emotions tend to infinity), our response has to be dictated by logic- learnt that from experience. Similarly, when logic pervades our fiber, we better decide so. This solution is never an exactitude. When people and other people's emotions are involved, we probably need to use a little emotion in our response. Just writing this blog or reading this post is never going to ensure our response, as it would just be a typification then. And I would like to run away from typification in this sense.
If this game is so damn complex, why do we play this? What do we gain from it? Day after day we pose questions and set up experiments that helps us understand the game a bit further. But do we really understand? Where do we really stand in it? Do we understand the number of paces that we have moved forward or backward? How do we know if we have come to the end of the game? That is just it. The game never ends and it grows interesting each day. WE LIVE IT AND LOVE IT as every single day passes. Understanding people, emotions and life is the ultimate intellectual conundrum. Understanding the human body, the numerous diseases and the laws that govern motion and reaction are easy. Understanding everything else is impossible. It is tough even to explain a question in terms of emotions and life that you will not even see a request for financial aid as a written proposal of research in emotions.
We do not research it. We do not question it. But, we experiment it, toy with it, question it. What is that 'it'? 'It' is something inanimate and animate at the same time. 'It' is humongous and tiny at the same time. 'It' is what we all strive to understand. Is 'it' life or a livelihood; emotion or logic; energy or application of energy? I do not know. I am still trying to understand 'It'- the game
At this point I would like to dedicate this post to Shweta, whose statement gave me inspiration and direction on this blog. Things that are seemingly innocuous are designed such that you get to know the other conversant or object of research better. This particular trait is true in every aspect of life and I never really saw it that way until a few days ago. The response of a person is always dictated by logic and reason- nay- it is also dictated by emotions. The contribution of these factors to a decision/response is the ultimate variable and fluctuates between a maxima and minima whose limits are unreadable. Emotions seem to exclude logic, but logic does not necessarily preclude emotion. When the response is so variable, how are we even going to stereotype a person. That is another point where the game is complicated further. The response can never be typified and if you do typify the response, you are sent back several paces in the board. You relearn what you need to and then come back to a spot in life from whence you can stare forward and steer clear of further pitfalls.
Wisdom, logic, clear thoughts, and a perspective help you to move through the board game. But they are not all. Sometimes the presence of emotions and sometimes the absence of emotions help you to move forward too. If emotions vary between 0 and 100% on issues, how do we know what will help us move forward. The simplest explanation seems to be when the mind emotes to a huge extent, ( when emotions tend to infinity), our response has to be dictated by logic- learnt that from experience. Similarly, when logic pervades our fiber, we better decide so. This solution is never an exactitude. When people and other people's emotions are involved, we probably need to use a little emotion in our response. Just writing this blog or reading this post is never going to ensure our response, as it would just be a typification then. And I would like to run away from typification in this sense.
If this game is so damn complex, why do we play this? What do we gain from it? Day after day we pose questions and set up experiments that helps us understand the game a bit further. But do we really understand? Where do we really stand in it? Do we understand the number of paces that we have moved forward or backward? How do we know if we have come to the end of the game? That is just it. The game never ends and it grows interesting each day. WE LIVE IT AND LOVE IT as every single day passes. Understanding people, emotions and life is the ultimate intellectual conundrum. Understanding the human body, the numerous diseases and the laws that govern motion and reaction are easy. Understanding everything else is impossible. It is tough even to explain a question in terms of emotions and life that you will not even see a request for financial aid as a written proposal of research in emotions.
We do not research it. We do not question it. But, we experiment it, toy with it, question it. What is that 'it'? 'It' is something inanimate and animate at the same time. 'It' is humongous and tiny at the same time. 'It' is what we all strive to understand. Is 'it' life or a livelihood; emotion or logic; energy or application of energy? I do not know. I am still trying to understand 'It'- the game
