Ever since I was a kid, I have been hearing this often, "Be practical". I had a hunch of what practicality they were talking about. Perhaps, it was about being more competitive; about crushing others so that I could rise; about not being sensitive; about keeping career first and everything later; about making choices from the head by analyzing all choices with respect to futuristic advantages in terms of material sense. (last wala thoda jyada ho gaya)
Every time I heard this phrase "Be practical", I thought that if I am practical how can I be happy. My aim had always been to be a happy person in my job, in my relationships and everything. And why is to be competitive related to being practical? Aren't togetherness and brotherhood better stuff for survival rather than fighting with your fellow beings? What is more practical: being human or being fighter dogs?
Why is building walls around yourself considered practical? The walls might prevent you from getting hurt but won't they prevent you from being touched? If walls prevent sadness, won't they prevent happiness too? And what is more practical than being happy?
What is practically better: a great career with no family and friends to share the success with or a good fulfilling career with family and friends to share the small success with?
What is practically better: a highly paid job that leaves you with no health to enjoy your life or a decently paid job with good health to enjoy life?
When I see the life of stray dogs, I am reminded of the so-called practical people. Those dogs fight over food, fight over bitches, fight over area, they bark a lot and then sleep. Wake up and follow the same old routine, do puppies and die. The so-called practical people follow more or less the same life. They sleep, wake up, fight for survival, do kids, make the kids fight for survival and then they get unhealthy and die. Occasionally, they go on vacations or get drunk which they call enjoyment.
While the so-called practical people truly live only during vacations (if their phone calls or worries don't disturb them), the other lot (called crazy people) enjoy everyday and live each moment. The crazy people seek richness within, yet they completely enjoy the richness of the outside world. The so-called practical people get busy seeking richness outside which makes them so tensed that they forget about the world that exists inside.
I feel that I am lucky that I never got so influenced by this phrase "Be practical".
Every time I heard this phrase "Be practical", I thought that if I am practical how can I be happy. My aim had always been to be a happy person in my job, in my relationships and everything. And why is to be competitive related to being practical? Aren't togetherness and brotherhood better stuff for survival rather than fighting with your fellow beings? What is more practical: being human or being fighter dogs?
Why is building walls around yourself considered practical? The walls might prevent you from getting hurt but won't they prevent you from being touched? If walls prevent sadness, won't they prevent happiness too? And what is more practical than being happy?
What is practically better: a great career with no family and friends to share the success with or a good fulfilling career with family and friends to share the small success with?
What is practically better: a highly paid job that leaves you with no health to enjoy your life or a decently paid job with good health to enjoy life?
When I see the life of stray dogs, I am reminded of the so-called practical people. Those dogs fight over food, fight over bitches, fight over area, they bark a lot and then sleep. Wake up and follow the same old routine, do puppies and die. The so-called practical people follow more or less the same life. They sleep, wake up, fight for survival, do kids, make the kids fight for survival and then they get unhealthy and die. Occasionally, they go on vacations or get drunk which they call enjoyment.
While the so-called practical people truly live only during vacations (if their phone calls or worries don't disturb them), the other lot (called crazy people) enjoy everyday and live each moment. The crazy people seek richness within, yet they completely enjoy the richness of the outside world. The so-called practical people get busy seeking richness outside which makes them so tensed that they forget about the world that exists inside.
I feel that I am lucky that I never got so influenced by this phrase "Be practical".
1 comments:
What you wrote is just too negative and I dont think practicality is about that!
A person is also being practical when he sends his young child to school even knowing his son would cry and he wont like that a bit!
Someone is also being practical when he/she postpones instant self-gratification well understanding future implications and doing what is long term right rather than reacting emotionally charged at the spur of the moment :)
Be practical!
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