(Part II) Love: Heart vs. Brain

Previously

 

It’s very hard to walk the self-promise as so many distractions are luring me. If someone eats from a decorated plate in front of a hungry man, he can’t resist himself from looking the man eating. Similarly what earlier appeared straightforward seems very difficult to me to hold back myself looking at or talking to her. My heart is giving a good fight to my brain. 

 I don’t believe in God but whoever or whatever way I got these eyes, I think there was a terrible mistake. As this pair of sense organs doesn’t get moist when I feel pain or whenever it requires doing so to abate the situation. Though this blunder is compensated by a muscled organ which beats with the cause to absorb all sorts of emotional surges but it’s hard to control its stimulation.

 Brain, the most critical and superior part of body, functions very logically and pragmatically. Brain may initiate the thought process but it always keeps its feet on the ground. It considers all aspects of a matter and gives realistic judgments. Whereas heart always flows with tide of passion or emotion whatsoever the end is. Even, knowing the writing on the wall, heart never slackens its grip on hope. People say if you listen to your heart, you are “emotional fool” but if you listen to your brain, you are “intelligent” and “practical”. It’s futile to raise the unanswered question “Who came first egg or chicken?” I mean who started first: Brain or Heart. Instead of solving this puzzle it’s better to decide whom to listen. My heart is insisting me to see her or talk to her but brain says: "Don’t hope, don’t talk, don’t even look; you know the reality. Or better forget her”.

 The script is already written I have no part in it, so sooner I understand this better it is for me to walk in reality.

Caution: This is truly imaginary; there is no reality in it.

Love: A Hope against Hope

Love; Once a wise man said “True love is like a ghost, nobody has seen it”. I call it Hope against hope. You don’t know whether you will get it or not but you hope that your hope will come true.

Who said love has to be successful or it should get a final shape or it should have a happy ending. Whatever final shape it gets, nobody including me take the proud to be on the side which has got no result.

All theists love God. They sacrifice their lives, live a austere life for only a single wish to see Him.
I don’t know whether I have made any sacrifice or not but somehow I am luckier than them. I got to see You everyday, I talked You, smelled You, even unknowingly I got Your touch…I don’t know how did I get such a strong intuition about you that I can percieve your every move closing my eyes or can smell your presence.

Knowing that you already have chosen your home and you will take someone else’s hand to set out for that home, I could not admit how much I……..
I still laugh at the letter lying between the pages of my diary, don’t know whether to keep it or throw it..May be I could not give you the proposal, but I took lot of pain to beg you “Your denial, Your silence”.

Less you talk, less I see in your deep eyes, more I able to suppress the breath of my “Hope against Hope”


Caution: This is fully imagination; there is no real story in it.

West Bengal Politics: Evil vs. lesser evil.

People normally get a choice between a good and a bad thing or good and better. But it’s very unfortunate that some time we have no other alternatives but to choose a bad option. Similar situation is prevailing in West Bengal politics where two main parties in fray are equally responsible to spoil the political culture in West Bengal.
Why politicians have to be bad? Why people join politics when there is nothing to do? Why can’t we talk/debate on politics without being bracketed as a supporter? Politics, suppose to be an area to serve people directly and to earn high dignity for such a noble work, has become a dirty place where politicians like to throw mud at each other and the term Politics always come with adjectives like corruption, scam, rhetoric, allegation, counter-allegation, propaganda and so on. It will be wrong to say that that there is no good politician but they never rise above his party rather they always turn out to be a representative of party not that of the people.
We will be replacing goons of one political party with that of other party, but we are left with no option. This assembly election is, I believe, not a battle between two political ideologies or two political spectrums, it’s a conflict between our gloomy present and bright future.  So the onus remains on us. It’s not about choosing the right thing at the right moment rather choosing the better option apt to the situation.

” When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain o…f a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam. When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to “open” the Nehruvian economy.It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.”                                                                                                                         
                                                                                         — By Time Magazine

” I am proud to be born in Sachin’s Era. I don’t know if  a human being could get a nomination in World’s wonders list. If it were so, Sachin certainly would have figured himself in 7 wonder list of World.I recall a movie, titled “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (It would be rewritten as The Curious Case of  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar )..Same miracle his happening with Sachin. More he ages more his form, cricketing skill  flourish. Now-a- days  a futile debate is going on whether sachin should get Bharat Ratna or not. Who the hell are we, will give reward to God of cricket ? Rather I believe there should be a Prize named “Sachin Award” which would be given to a cricketer performed well in his cricket career.”
                                                                                          — By Ramen

Like the lower age limit, there ought to be an upper age limit for a Voter.



Children are born with minds like blank slates which, from the first minute, will be written or filled with positive and negative experiences from the surroundings. With the growing experience he structures his conviction or a doctrine which will form a base to support the edifice of his knowledge.

At earlier stage of life, human beings are prone to changes so also his belief as a belief is nothing but the generalization of a past knowledge/experience and past knowledge/experience and is bound to be replaced with a new one. In the early days of his life, whatever he or she perceives is not always what the truth is since it’s too early age to get a holistic view with his or her limited knowledge. With the growing age and the growing knowledge a man tries to find a common pattern and subsequently draws a comprehensive conclusion to set his firm beliefs.  

At the age of 18 a boy or girl becomes aware of his /her surroundings or he/she becomes circumspective about the incidents happening around him. So he or she develops the acumen to differentiate between right and wrong. Considering this the lower age of a voter is set to 18.

Unlike supporters, those who are not involved in active politics think comprehensively each time before they exercise their franchise. The fate of the politicians largely depends on those unpredictable voters and the politician remains focused to persuade those voters.

As the man ages his inquisitive nature gradually shrinks and so also his thoughtful-critical-analyzer brain slows down. He is no more perturbed what he used to be about the political happenings or the current situation. After certain age human beings are not susceptible to change; he has already built a wall around him with his so called bricks of knowledge which he has gained from the moment of life. He feels comfortable to stay within this familiar barrier with all his fixation, knowledge or experience. At this period of life it’s not incorrect to say that his decision or judgment about the politics is not very comprehensive as his decision is either from an old predilection or very much situational. So in politics this kind of voters should not be the decisive factors where each vote counts.

Like other fields where opinion, decision, knowledge, philosophy matter to steer the wheel of progress, an upper age limit should be an essential criterion for voters too.

 Colors of Life

When a child is born he doesn’t possess the ability to distinguish between the colors because of his immaturity of brain. All the colors appears White to him. Ironically a child trust everything whatever comes to him or whatever is told to him. He is yet to discern about right and wrong or good or bad. It’s not so hard to understand why a child is considered as holy and innocent as almighty God.

As the time goes on the child’s cognitive power is honed by his parents and relatives, especially, by the culture of his immediate surroundings. His brain starts distinguishing the different colors present within white but he is yet to differentiate accurately all the colors from white. But he notably he prefers Yellow as he progress more towards youth.

At 18, the child comes out of the shell of adolescence and commences his Green days. Green the symbol of youth, age of breaking all conventions, all rules, age of dreaming. This is the most crucial period of life when he can see all the colors of life, but, still it’s too early to comprehend the true sense of all the colors.

In his youth, when he falls in love he finds himself as the worshipper of Red and start forgetting the other colors. But he is disheartened or becomes unsuccessful he starts singing in Blue

Once that youth set his foot on world of work, he becomes a full grown man. He is now matured to the fullest degrees. He now understands the difference between Black and White i.e. Evil and Good.

Now, it comes the responsibility of his married life which is combined with love, sympathy, compromise, trust and responsibility. It’s like a rainbow in his life consists many colors of life.

One day that man becomes parent and bring a new life into the world. With his child the man once again the starts finding the old colors which he has forgot or tries to see the colors in the eyes of his progeny. In this way he brings some colors in his life which becomes Gray with the years passes away.

His life has seen all the colors he has to see and his life is no longer perturbed by the curiosity of knowing a new color. With the passing age, the man gradually loses the efficacy of his sense organs, not all the colors are so discretely visible to him. Now again all the colors of his life seems to converge to one single color which he started his life with i.e. White.

Cash Redundancy

 





20^th century has given birth to a new world which appears to be real but it’s not actually. All the essential components of real world are there which can be seen/observed but it’s intangible.

This is called Virtual World. This century has another contribution to the world which has shortened the distance between two people not physically but virtually.

And this has been possible because of the availability of mobile phones and Internet connections.

Currently, India has ranked  2nd in the world by the no of mobile phone in use. The figure is around 752 million which is growing by 15 million per month. With this growing mobile phone usage other organization like bank or other companies have started accommodating this new means. Online trading is already  there in place,  now a new trend of mobile-trading is gradually making progress.

In mobile trading there is a concept called Mobile Money Transfer Identifier (MMID) which is formulated by MPFI and adopted by NPCI and participating banks. It takes care of linking multiple accounts to a mobile, ensuring only people who are registered for receiving will receive money and avoids erroneous transfers to a large extent. Mobile phone user will have to download the mobile banking application on his instrument to remit money.

This is process will usher in lot of new concepts as well as fast and smooth transfer of money. All ready big players like AXIS, ICICI, HDFC and SBI have enabled the service to transfer money into another account. It’s not so far when a vegetable vender will display his mobile number and MMID and you will be able to transfer the required amount to his account at the same time payer and payee will be confirmed by a automatic SMS. So the money will change hands virtually rather than physically making the cash redundant.

In 21st century, every child will get a mobile and a MMID as soon as he is familiar with money or when his father has a feeling of his need. This mobile will be that child’s power of purchase for rest of the life.  The original or the ancient form of trade was barter;  the direct exchange of goods and services. Later one side of the barter were the metals, precious metals (poles, coins), bill, paper money. Like barter or gold coin, one day, paper money will be read in history as virtual trading will eclipse the hand-to-hand cash transfer.

Those who use Debit or credit card can envisage such scenario more clearly. They get their salary credited automatically in the bank account at the month-end. Without having withdrawn any cash from the bank they use to spend money using debit card. Now-a-days, even small shops have started accepting debit card payment. Be it a cricket match, matinee show, restaurant table or  current bill, mobile bill one can avail all this facilities with the help of internet connection in PC or Mobile handset. At this ground it’s not hard to think the day of mobile-to-mobile money transfer without any liquid cash in hand.

Money is just a medium of exchange; It does not matter to us whether it’s  real or virtual. This redundancy not only makes paper note unneeded or useless, it will save lot of Government’s expenditures like manufacturing cost of paper note/coins, vigilance and security expenditure on counterfeiting or black money. Moreover it will be easy to keep check on tax evasion and black money.