Oh my brother's in so much trouble! Not a single call or sms since he reached turkey, my parents' worry and anxiety aggravated by the 2 bird flu deaths in Turkey yesterday. I miss the fella. Hope he's ok.
Exerpt from his blog a year ago:
"I've always found that people seemed to dwell on the level of ‘contentness’ that they had, the happiness and seeming need to feel satisfied with life. It's not a foreign notion if you've ever been down or envied others. Certainly it's what drives most of us to continue living even as we struggle to comprehend our existence and bring justice to our daily toils. Yet, I've always been disgusted at the way they tended to measure their standing. Although it would seem we, each our own protagonist in our world, would be the best judge of this journey thrust upon us, people fail to realise how misleading our perceptions can be. My personal belief is that we are indeed the best judge of things, only if we rise above the preconceived ordering of things impaled deeply into our minds by society. How dangerous and tragic it would be to live life in set constraints that others invariably place on us. Passing phrases of disgust, spurts of self-superiority, meaningless marks of excellence scribbled down in red ink bearing semblance to numbers or letters, etc. We need to envision our place without interference, without social structure or castes, without scorn or pride. Only then can we fully measure our lives, achievements and goals. Easier said then done, agreeably, but strive we must, or forever succumb to our shortcomings."
Exerpt from his blog a year ago:
"I've always found that people seemed to dwell on the level of ‘contentness’ that they had, the happiness and seeming need to feel satisfied with life. It's not a foreign notion if you've ever been down or envied others. Certainly it's what drives most of us to continue living even as we struggle to comprehend our existence and bring justice to our daily toils. Yet, I've always been disgusted at the way they tended to measure their standing. Although it would seem we, each our own protagonist in our world, would be the best judge of this journey thrust upon us, people fail to realise how misleading our perceptions can be. My personal belief is that we are indeed the best judge of things, only if we rise above the preconceived ordering of things impaled deeply into our minds by society. How dangerous and tragic it would be to live life in set constraints that others invariably place on us. Passing phrases of disgust, spurts of self-superiority, meaningless marks of excellence scribbled down in red ink bearing semblance to numbers or letters, etc. We need to envision our place without interference, without social structure or castes, without scorn or pride. Only then can we fully measure our lives, achievements and goals. Easier said then done, agreeably, but strive we must, or forever succumb to our shortcomings."