Today I attended a seminar on Thinking and it really got me thinking!
We as normal beings going about our day to day mundane life and forget about consciously thinking! We become robot-like in our existence and do not question the norm.
The points that were raised today were: what are norms? Who sets them? Who follows them and why?
When we applied mind to the matter at hand, we realised that norms are determined by mediocre/ average people who are lazy and incompetent to handle change! And imagine most of us tread the path etched by such people! What a Shame I say!
The radicals or the thinkers are a rare creed in the society. These are the people who struggled to give us a better present to live in. Galileo, Newton and Copernicus are just a few names I take here.
Thinking is good. It sets us free from following the crowd. It awakens reasoning and independent decision taking in us.
If there are no risk-takers, then there would be no trail-blazers. Thence, we shall have no progress in our society.
So people go out there question the norms, break the superfluous rules and set a new trend!
Live like AWAKENED HUMANS!
We as normal beings going about our day to day mundane life and forget about consciously thinking! We become robot-like in our existence and do not question the norm.
The points that were raised today were: what are norms? Who sets them? Who follows them and why?
When we applied mind to the matter at hand, we realised that norms are determined by mediocre/ average people who are lazy and incompetent to handle change! And imagine most of us tread the path etched by such people! What a Shame I say!
The radicals or the thinkers are a rare creed in the society. These are the people who struggled to give us a better present to live in. Galileo, Newton and Copernicus are just a few names I take here.
Thinking is good. It sets us free from following the crowd. It awakens reasoning and independent decision taking in us.
If there are no risk-takers, then there would be no trail-blazers. Thence, we shall have no progress in our society.
So people go out there question the norms, break the superfluous rules and set a new trend!
Live like AWAKENED HUMANS!
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ReplyDeleteThinking freely is not easy though. Pressures are brought against those people who do think freely by those who do not like risk and who prefer the norms. Personally I think only in our writing can we think freely, but not in public.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gary for reading all my blogs, it means a lot to me! I totally agree with you when you say that thinking freely is not possible in public life. However I would like to add that there is a difference in being 'assertive' and 'aggressive'. Also, at the end of the day it boils to the value I attach to my life vis-a-vis the public opinion. :)
DeleteYou are an excellent, thought-provoking writer, Suditi. It's a pleasure to read your comments and ideas. :)
ReplyDeleteThese words made me think and moreover made me question some lame norms set by the society. It even make oneself question his/her existence. The message that it draws is one should know the REASON of living. You are truly a cogent writer.
ReplyDeleteThank you Priyanka! So please question everything before accepting it :)
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