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    • DAY 1226 Amitabh Bachchan Blog
    Inertia has a terrible habit of lingering for longer than would make one comfortable .. it saps energy and excitement, reduces one to vegetate, and bear it in silence. Actually there is little else it can do. But being idle is at times necessary and important too. There is concentrated thought. There is the silence to contend with. There is nothing to do to contend with. But if you are one that has a work schedule that gives you little else, then I suppose there are no grounds for complaint. I certainly do not have time or inclination or desire for complaint. What good does it get you ? Really. There is some thing that has not gone right, fine. There may be a need to complain to correct it if there is provision to. But when the provision eludes us, what then. Do we scream and shout and nuisance all and above till it is corrected. If there is no provision for it, your belligerence is destructive only to your own system. The other system will not change, it shall continue regardless. But I do believe that every anger expressed, every nerve twitched in disgust or intolerance, every harsh word spoken or thought contained within with temper, is only and only destructive to us, not to the person directed to. If it could repair the other person good. If it would not, it never will. If I am able to find defect and have reason to correct it, why is it that it is supposed that the other shall possess similar gift. If he or she did, they would not be in proximity of you. They would not be in a situation where they would have to listen to your impatient exhortations. They would all be in better environs, for their ability would make them worthy of it. If they are under you, they are under you because they were unable to be above you, but that never does mean that they be subjected to a constant reminder that they are not. Life and circumstances put them there. Taunting their life for their circumstances is uncalled for. It could have been you. Grace of the infinite and the unknown put you where you are, be grateful for that and deliver kindness to those that could not make it there. We are not all infallible. If for some reason we were, the inequality would require some explanation from that force element that decides how what is to happen and where.

    The uncertainty of existence is intriguing. Why limit us to where we are if we are created. Why rid us of where we are. Why embrace us with good fortune and others with not. Why they be in suffering and others not. These inequalities shall never have a justifiable scientific answer. But they exist without question.

    I drift towards the more philosophical and many among you have distaste for it. This too is a misnomer in life. Do and see and feel what you like, discard what you do not. Who propels us towards individuals likes and dislikes. If we are all born of similar conditions, traits and methods, through similar acts of reproduction, why are we all different. One can argue that the process of reproduction is made from the consummation of different beings, but they are beings are they not. Not some outer world hallucinogenic invaders often conceptualized in books and movies.

    There shall be many that shall have arguments against this I know, but very few that will. These intrigues led us to build our minds and bodies in the way they did - in belief and in atheism !

    I have loved the intensity of the liberal mind. I have admired that which has intrigue and question in it. I have submitted little else in what I have done personally - there is little or negligible contribution. But being by myself has been more appreciative for me than for others. For them the distance has proved improper and indignant. For me it has proved a boon.

    Pressure of any kind can destruct. Pressure in this universe of ours has never eventually had any positive results. Pressure on those elements that we have known to be disastrous to society and the world shall work. But that is not pressure, that is sense. I may execute sense. To the oppressor it may sound pressure. To each his own thought. Who knows what their circumstances may be. But just because the wind blows in one direction and we must all blow along with it is not my idea of freedom. When I need to blow I will, if not I shall sit still with my own belonging and feel of sensibility. I am an individual in a modern world with thoughts and ideas of my constitutional own. That responsibility is mine from my birth. I shall not depart with it to elsewhere haven. This earth and region and country that belongs to me is mine. I shall not sacrifice it for all the benefit of the world.

    Indian I am and Indian I shall remain. You are free to join me but not free to change me. Change I shall do if I want to or need to. Change is inevitable in all of us. But to make drastic change will require drastic measures. I am not ready for drastic measures, may never be ! So what ! Does that make me any different from my own nationality or my being. I think not.

    I will not, until I will not ….

    Amitabh Bachchan

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