A new year around the corner. Almost two years on. All is back to square one. It seems that little has been learnt on aspects of what to do or not to do. One still carries on with superficial exercise of throwing about verbal garbages based on one’s frailty of being and or idiosyncrasy. It is still very much all a la superficial, as all still based on the corporeal aspect of being. The search for that elusive happiness however momentarily, still remains the measure of being. It is the standard set by each and everyone in that we carry on leading a mundane way of being… where the belief is that by a mere adjustment or doing a few things here and there contentment will be here for ever!
It has mostly been so at all times generally as far as one may remember. It is not fun adopting a way of life which questions the fabric of the search for happiness as being the measure of everything through which one needs to exist or adopt. Try breaking this mode of being and one is classed as being a weirdo in the eyes of those who have espoused that superficial way of being. Yet all that were halted when the world was forced to surrender and reconsider. …. But all lasted for a while only……
The call for reflection is not an option, not yet. That we were pushed to sit back, take stock of the way we have led our lives may never be considered at least not yet as one forges ahead in life as we may continue with our controlling nature in attempting to subjugate nature in its animate and inanimate forms. After all with such a logic, it is for every question of putting the me-ism aspect over and above each and everyone. …. which links in many aspects to seeing oneself as that which is directly visible. It is only time before one gets back to so-called normality or so one may think..
On another note, the person remains a closed entity, carrying the seeds of hatred about oneself to the exclusion others. That the ‘me’ knows it all, a sadistic self which denies the other or more precisely puts the latter into subjugation or keeps putting the non-me down as if by such a process one achieves grandeur. On such a crude view, the agenda is all about oneself that being who knows it all and follows a set pattern whereas any other not associating with ‘me’ is subjected to be put down, negated and in many cases abused whether verbally or otherwise. In such a state, all is about oneself, the me, me and me.
Therefore, in some ambiguous ways that this needs be so as one gets identified through association and or being linked with that body in which one is. However, to make this the be and end of everything is the problem as all that one witnesses about is that sense of myself and others is what the reminder that who one essentially is. Or that one is the body and yet it is frailty of existence. It may not be at any moment. In the first wave which harnessed fear into us, we somehow developed this fear of not being. A reality that life is fragile and that one may or rather reflect on one’s nature. This non-being is not simply something that a certain aged group may worry as traces that one may be hit regardless of age, is about us. Frightening that this so in that the individual for a little begin pondering on life and and the bigger question. …. But then after a while all is back to normal as we revert to crude ways with our malady not being questioned!
To put this differently, that one may no longer be is about us was there at all times. The tune has again changed. Perhaps one may still by pass the warnings and carries on with the so-called normal life. The obvious egocentric approach will simply not do and yet still one notices pockets of separatism sometimes in its violent aspects surfacing here and there.
The crude culture is that one needs to belong to some thing, a particular ideology or a way of life which essentially denies some other, which becomes exclusive. Where this is so, there is a problem and that problem is one of seeing the other as an enemy or someone lesser due to a particular approach. It is also about having a condescending view that one is better. In this way, it is about right and wrongs in that ‘my’ belief system is better and yours is a lack. In some ways all that existed and requires a reality check so to speak in order to be there in the midst of the world.
Then came that invisible enemy to borrow a phrase from President Macron of France where in some ways there is a called on humanoids to unite rather than divide. With lesson not-learnt, one still still struggle on what to do or not to do. How may one really fight that enemy which is around and about us? A deeply rooted malaise.
The warnings of Covid 19 has not quite filtered through since one carries on naively thinking that there is no need to reconsider one’s ways as all will be back to so-called normal way of being. Or that is really above and better than others and that the other is a lesser being and that one is on a pedestal, whilst the not- me being at best someone there but for one’s own benefit. The ways of the crude or vulgar does not end there. The point being that one needs to from then onwards forcefully or otherwise tries coercing others into subjugation. To be in the world is to make others subservient to oneself regardless. If a little coercion, force or even violence is required, one is prepared to follow such a route as it embellishes the false ego which associate the self with the crude bodily being.
Ultimately the question remains not of being or not being but that of how to be in the mode of authenticity. Is this an option if at all or should one espouse the way of hatred, anger, lust and violence, not necessarily of the physical form and adopt an conceited approach. Who knows?