Sometime you are thinking about writing something which you believe in strongly and which has been there in the back of your mind since forever and then you come across some writing on the web which matches verbatim with your school of thought. You rejoice with a reason that there are a few like minded people out there, the conviction gets stronger and you go to sleep peacefully. So here is a post, a bit philosophical in nature(the hedonist type may leave the post right away) which falls in the above category and would like to reproduce it here.
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This is right, that is wrong. This is how it should be, that is how it should not be. This is how it works, that is how it should not work.
I have come across quite some people (make no mistake, very good individuals) whose view point towards anything in life is black and white - its either right or wrong. But however hard I try, I can NEVER understand that view point. In my opinion, how can life be plain black and white ? Life has myriads of colours, it is really not possible to categorize everything in life into two buckets. Well, cutting the branch on which you are sitting can be classified as wrong :-). But those are the 0.1% of things in life which needs "classification", for the remaining 99.9% of things in life which really doesnt gain anything from this taxonomy of "right and wrong", why bother, why waste precious thought cycles trying to put everything that you see into two buckets ! Why not just enjoy the colours and try to see the millions of possible variations around ! I absolutely cannot tolerate the "right and wrong" attitude in people :-(.
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I have come across quite some people (make no mistake, very good individuals) whose view point towards anything in life is black and white - its either right or wrong. But however hard I try, I can NEVER understand that view point. In my opinion, how can life be plain black and white ? Life has myriads of colours, it is really not possible to categorize everything in life into two buckets. Well, cutting the branch on which you are sitting can be classified as wrong :-). But those are the 0.1% of things in life which needs "classification", for the remaining 99.9% of things in life which really doesnt gain anything from this taxonomy of "right and wrong", why bother, why waste precious thought cycles trying to put everything that you see into two buckets ! Why not just enjoy the colours and try to see the millions of possible variations around ! I absolutely cannot tolerate the "right and wrong" attitude in people :-(.
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2 comments:
"Well, cutting the branch on which you are sitting can be classified as wrong :-). "
Even I disagree to classify it as wrong and do not thing its in that 0.1% :)
Agree totally...... I too think that people, thoughts, actions are all shades of gray, not black or white and cannot be classified as such. In fact look carefully, and you'll be amazed to find the world is a riot of colors- with all shades n tints!!!
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