Strange. 3 full years after I start this blog, I actually post on wisdom. A minute on why it was called wisdom tooth convention-the thought process then was that all wisdom in the world is conventional, and subjective just like a metaphorical wisdom tooth and coming of age. And this blog was supposed to house my 2-cents.
Today’s topic is a little different, today as I sit on lazy Sunday afternoon and wonder what wisdom is all about it comes a little clear to be- though all- “All Clear Idea bulbs” are generally bored-in-between-mundane-tasks-musings. Coming back to the All-clear about what wisdom is all about.
A step back. What makes any day or for that matter any minute more interesting to an average non-nirvanized human mind is hope- materialistic, altruistic, self actualistic but essentially hope which is pinned on self ability to convert those dreams into realities. And then comes enthusiasm, panache, self confidence and eventually the act of enjoying the means to the end, when essentially it is all keeping the end in view. Every human being is subject to this in his or her relevant level of mundanity and modesty.
Well then there is arrogance. When this faith on convertion ability of the mundane to the venusified -hope is heightened to imagination. The +ve side is it helps one actually attain the level imagined otherwise not possible by plain ability. The –ve side, one finds solace in a mid-way hallucinatory stage where one is content imagining a state similar to salvation.
The third is realization. There are some things you can NEVER get or change. Rather things which are beyond your control and you have to live with. Most +ve minded ambitious thinkers refuse to accept defeat. Lance Armstrong believed he wouldn’t succumb to cancer and make a sports career and he did. Heck! He even had a baby and found the love of his life- all while recuperating… But some you have to. Like that entrance exam you missed-its over you will not get that college maybe a better one next. Like maybe that girl- not possible but maybe a next. Like you spent all you life perfectizing yourself- beating fate black and blue and derived self-mangamimizing pleasure- sheer sense of victory- the right, grades, the right job, the right-screw-your-peers-ha-ha-I-am-always-ahead snigger, the perfect spouse, the perfect house and then bang you have an incurable disease. Or you lose hair!! (:D)… then well you look at god… you live with it.. find a work around and you are again back to a) Lance-Armstronging 2) hallucinating c) compromising!!!
Bingo now what is actually adjusting or compromising is such an interesting case for a subjective perspective-esp on sensitive and nerve-upping topics.
There is a ruefull compromise and there is a happy one. I know millions who did both. Particularly of yester years when ah-well you see it looked like there was no way out and they compromised- and are genuinely CONTENT if you may say so and HAPPY. But where do we draw the line? If lance Armstrong had thought he had a wonderful mother and a beautiful wife and life gave him so much, he just survived from cancer and what the hell he had a life!!- he would probably have been appreciated and adulated in a house warming party, grandkids would have written about him in a diary or blogs- my grandpa great guy and bloop- he is dead one day. Yeah no doubt he would have been happy. There are of course so many who give up slaving away 18 hours a day on a cycle to be a world champion and rather live a –“quality Life”. That. And then there are others who probably don’t adhere to common wisdom.
And there comes the question of what then is wisdom? What the elders of my family have bestowed upon me is- mellowing down, reacting to situations with “maturity”, accepting that fate and higher authorities exist above you and succumbing to them.
And then why is anything un-conventional so challenged? And then is it rash and not wise? If you have an uncrushable- questioning, maverick spirit but in shorts no SPIRIT- no “balls” to actually substantiate that spirit? Then you probably are a hallucinatory. One the edge. Aspirational to adhere to conventional wisdom ‘cause you think it gives you the low profile dramatic enough to enhance you hallucinations- ‘cause you imagine yourself rising one day from the –dregs and flying high-Lance Armstronging to be precise.
Well go hunt for your spirit then- very difficult, you probably would have fortified and shackled it around your own will to conventionalism and your own rebelliousness against it.
Well then you are category 2- very happy within the hallucinations but when real life seeps in through cracks and crashes down on you then you had wished you would have secured your spirit or your wisdom. Stop lashing about!!
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