The World Is Not Enough.

"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." - Brooks Hatlem (the old guy who gets released on parole and ends up killing himself in the movie - The Shawshank Redemption).

True, how it is. A big damn hurry the world is in - to see its own end, isn't it? Take a look around. It is not easy to say or even believe that the world is indeed decaying. Each and every country is decaying. Law of nature? Maybe.

Every good thing has to come to an end right. Probably. It is probably even time to acknowledge this fact.

This one song makes a lot of sense to me. ONLY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND TAMIL  will understand this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT2l77q-tTo

That's the kind of decay that every single person in any country will realize about themselves or even about their country or even about India.

Warring nations, ready to nuke each other up at a moment's notice. Countries starved of food and water and yet nations choose to arm themselves with hi-tech nuclear weapons than actually care for humanity. People killing people just because they are from another country/another state despite speaking the same language, and (yet you care for each other like you were born to the same parents when you are together in a different country, just because you speak the same language). People in power swindling billions and virtually putting up an entire nation for sale just because you want to live large.

It was said in the Bhagvadgita - "Whenever there is a decline in dharma being carried out in the world, then I will set things right by coming back to earth. Whenever good people are being dominated by bad people, then I will be reborn time and again to help good over evil."

Is the time coming for all evil to end and for the world to start afresh? or is it a complete beginning of the end? 2012 perhaps?

We will never know. Wierd things happen. Chaos.

P.S: Too abstract, I know.

Why this Kolaveri?

Within the past few weeks, some of the safest jobs in the world have turned into ones that people might fear to take up. A bank was robbed in broad daylight, a bus driver goes crazy and kills people by running the bus over them, a teacher was murdered by her own student.

Is 2012 really going to happen? Chaos all around already. But really, that kid murdering his own teacher? What were you thinking? Killing your teacher is revenge?

Well, to be honest, inherently we (read - Indians) have always been blaming someone else for even the tiniest of our faults. Would that kid have gone to the extent of killing his teacher had his parents raised him properly? The thing with us as Indians is that we always beat the floor up if our kids stumble and fall. That's to make the child feel that "my parents are protective of me."

What could have happened with that kid so badly that he went to the extent of killing his teacher? Most of us have faced failure in academics (to varying degrees of course) at some stage or the other. But really, killing your teacher? and the reason is you were influenced by a movie? Where did you leave your brain, boy?

When most (generations of the 70's-80's) of us were growing up, we didn't have so much of violent movies, and even those which had scenes of a knife dripping blood were given an "A" rating, so that only mature audiences could watch the movie. In fact, movies which didn't have too much of violence or sexual content used to get an "A" certificate. The movies that come out today... well.. and kids these days too "mature" quickly.

Parents of today don't really have the time to sit with kids and talk to them, neither do kids for that matter. Nuclear families, no influence from the grandparents, working parents who return late from work, kids who run from school to tuition classes to extra curricular classes, etc -  all that hardly leaves any time for interaction between the parents and their kids. Fast paced, hectic life has taken out what matters the most to growing kids.

Adolescent kids, specially boys tend to do all sorts of nonsense growing up. It's at that time when a parent's or a grandparent's guidance is most important. And when that's not there for the kids, you never know what may happen. In joint families (seems like way back into stone age huh?) there was always an elder person in the house who used to take care of the kids. My parents never had to worry that their 10 year old son was all alone at home. My grandparents, my aunt, my uncle and even my great-grandmother were all there to take care of me. Stories, tales of people with good virtue used to be told to the kids to make sure they had the right kind of influence growing up.

When us kids from the 70s and 80s grew up in India, we didn't have too much of technology or western influence on us, which made us go bonkers at every opportunity. And also money. Money makes the world go round. Apparently, this particular kid came from a very affluent family and was given enough pocket money. And that money went to buying a weapon for himself to take his teacher's life. Indirectly, the parents themselves had sponsored a woman's death.

Well, life will go on.. life will find a way.. May that soul rest in peace...