Dedicated to Balli... yesterdays chat wid him compelled me to write this..!!
how often has it been that you do some act, which infuriates one of ur frnds, and u justify it by quoting some really jazzy line you heard somewhere..? Like, you have been very slow in your work, your coworker asks you to speed up, and you respond by a very nice little line "Slow and Steady wins the race"..!
I find it extremely irritating at times. Like, there was this time that certain habits of friend of mine wer quite irritating.. I said so, and in came the reply "My friends shouldnt try to change me, they should just accept me the way I am..!"
I sometimes just dont get the point of how can some1's experience, some1's thinking dictate the way YOU live. When each one of us is unique, our experiences ought to be unique. Giving quotations or jazzy lines as a reason is just like living some1 elses life.
Also, before quoting, one should have understood the context in which the line was said. Like in the Hare-Tortise story, the morale is not that if you are fast, you tend to falter. NO. At times, being fast is what is needed. The morale is, that much more important than speed is consistency. You have to be a consistent performer.
Like, you just cant say "Slow and steady wins the race" for a 100 m dash. Thats what you say for a 1500 m race or for a marathon. Same holds true for almost each and every quotations.
I was told yesterday that you just cannot go on doing things just coz every1 else is doing it. And I admit thats what most of us do. How many of us want to do MBA just coz every else wants to do it. I for 1, wanted it for same reason. It was only in the final yr that i found MY reason. Guess I was just lucky..
Similarly, each incident in your life is different. You just cant stop trying to better yourself by saying "Perfection cannot be achieved". There are FEW things in which it cant be achieved. But sometimes, it can be. Also, just coz you cant become perfect doesnt mean you shld stop trying.
Being stuck in the world of quotations is a mistake i made for a long time. Thankfully I grew over it. For me, now they are just a collection of well written lines. Nothing more. :)
yo man ur ryt...just go on fuckin as u feel whn u feel...
ReplyDeleteAll maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ~William Mathews
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ReplyDeletequotations may have their cons, but they affect someone who is in some kind of a situation that can looks awesomer through a quotation OR in some cases where they can feel better about something negative that happened but looks better through a quote.
ReplyDeleteno one can deny that quotations will have a stronger effect than some banal lines..........
actually Your discussion on the hare and turtle race confused me. The case u have discussed about hardly seems to suggest that u have discovered what u want, but probably just shows u how at different levels u are forced to reconcile with ur justifications for seemingly trivial quotes. It is weird that ur obsessed with one quote and weirder dat u get irritated by its continued usage. the weirdest part however, is, that u have still not stopped obsessing abt ur quotes.... now typically as a critic i wud like to say what makes u so attached to it.... In fact i beleive ur attaching too much imporatance to waht is being said when it hardly matters what people say when they have nothing worthwhile to say..... however...i appreciate the work u have done..ur frankness is really laudable.....
ReplyDeletenice work..keep blogging....