Tuesday, October 7, 2008

stellar perspective

there're many things we shouldn't do, as we know it. Yet, we don't know everything we should do. time passes very fast, as fast that we don't even know what has been going on in our minds, which consequently cost us numerous internal conflicts.

take an example, what is taught by prophet is often misinterpreted or taken for granted just according to our convenience. when i was kid back in primary school (as how stepanov usually put it), i always think of being as best as i can. yet, everything that has been happening around us always put on barrier after a barrier just so that we can't be what we wish to be.

this kind of situation merely reminds me of what's taught in asian mythology class, the karma concept. though this concept is poorly depicted in the taught epics (i think), yet it seems applicable to all walk of lives, regardless what our backgrounds are.

this karma concepts is about what we get is caused by what we've done. this is so logical, it's just us whether to accept it or not. now, i'm trying to make a point.

what do you think that makes a robber a robber? there's a repitition there. But, the issue is, is it the robbery that occured makes a person to be described as robber? or is it something else that is actually a lot more complicated than that single event of robbery?

here comes the complexity: what if i say that a robbery is actually caused by not only by the convicted 'robber' , but also everyone in the community as a whole even the one who's robbed?
why is it so? let's see how the chain effect starts here: say it starts when a leader doesn't do his or her duty by not providing enough attention to development of manners to the youth generation of the nation.

this generation then grows up being professionals and as many would regard it, to be independent people. Yet, the reality is that there's no way we can say that humans are independent because they can't possibly live without each other.

stemming from the lack of manners in the first place, dishonesty comes out from the professionals and this is what's called corruption. corruption then becomes widespread and paralyzes a country's economy. due to this phenomenon, people can't afford to have proper education and they just can't better their lives up. here comes all sorts of crimes which have been making the world always-can-be-better place to live, instead of just be the best to live.

the reality is that all phenomenons are just a lot more complex as they seem to be. somehow, the best we can do is always be on track and never get cheated by those who have been cheating themselves for theit entire lives.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Damn, exceptionally good bro.
Never thought it would point to corruption as the main idea.

Like the part about we can't live by ourselves. That is where the term 'community' comes from. Community does not work as one, but work as a whole community.

Keep it dude.
Good luck for geology exam though.
Wakakaka

Anonymous said...

hmm... Perhaps the same question had led Isaac Newton to create Newton's 3rd law : law of reciprocal actions. "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

Wht triggers such thought, azim? My name is earl?

Anonymous said...

Points are good but still refutable... Regarding Karma. It is but a system of belief created to accommodate the suffering of the people.

"A child is born in India, near the straits of Bombay under the roof of poor guardians. He grew up and asked, why do i have to live with all this hardships? The best explanation given is karma."

But here is the major problem with this belief, the child is pure and innocent in himself. Karma begets deeds as in cause and effect. So another excuse is made.. the child's spirit, his Atman, has done evil deeds in the past lives instead. Its part ridiculous, though scared knowledge and part blinding people from the truth of reality. The 'true' karma is different.. maybe i ll write about it when given the chance.