Most writers usually leave a good line of work with a closing quip or something that will create an air of loss or anxiety. My closing this blog has to do with many reasons, most of which are associated around the fact that my lethargy has contributed to lack of attention here and this will be the final post in here. I will be starting a new blog soon with a brand new name and anyone reading this can find that information on Facebook or Orkut if your in my friends list. I have decided to take a brand new approach to my writing and my outlook on Bangalore as it stands and the people that have come into my life along with all my experiences.
I wish everyone a prosperous 2008 and look forward to your patronage on my next blog. This is Melroy Coelho putting the cat out of the house and turning the lights out.
Goodbye
Music listened to while writing this blog - Shadow of the day - Linkin Park
Mood while writing this blog - Hopeful
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Way Of The Wrong
"Deep inside me is a thought that is waiting to let itself out and I fear I will be ridiculed and hated for being myself but I must do it to keep the very little there is of me alive" - Me on January 1st 2008
Our education rarely fails us; when we go to stores and we are bargaining for items we have just purchased or making the most difficult of choices while picking out what we wish to eat for the day at a restaurant. However, when we have a belief and a way of thinking, our education truly fails us as it is here that our education truly tests us. When our very education is challenged and our belief systems are at the verge of being changed, we start analyzing everything that is given to us. I truly do not believe that anyone or anything should truly be allowed to propagate the changes that we 'feel' are necessary to make us better people in the environments we are placed in. I think that as educated individuals we need to explore every possible scenario before making a personally informed decision on whether or not we choose to believe what is being told or shown to us. Contrary to my own personal beliefs, there are individuals out there who use 'collective' thinking to make these decisions. I can only guess that their existence is necessary to ensure that my existence is possible.
I wished to actually write more on this and bring further light on the topic but I now understand and know much better than I did five hours ago and realize the err of my ways. I have also realized that when a thought is challenged that I should find more easier ways of letting people know that I don't digest everything put to me on a plate and that I actually like straying away for conventional wisdom and rely on my own intuitions, however wrong they may be, before I finally realize that I am either wrong or right. Either way doom is eminent and I have chosen this path for this very reason. No one came up with solutions for a better world by simply listening to the people around them and believing everything they were told. They thought and tried and tested and went back to the drawing board. Don't desert your thought pattern, its the most human thing we really have; yes even more than our emotions.
Music listened to while writing this blog - Two Steps Behind - Def Leppard
Mood while writing this blog - Contemplative
Our education rarely fails us; when we go to stores and we are bargaining for items we have just purchased or making the most difficult of choices while picking out what we wish to eat for the day at a restaurant. However, when we have a belief and a way of thinking, our education truly fails us as it is here that our education truly tests us. When our very education is challenged and our belief systems are at the verge of being changed, we start analyzing everything that is given to us. I truly do not believe that anyone or anything should truly be allowed to propagate the changes that we 'feel' are necessary to make us better people in the environments we are placed in. I think that as educated individuals we need to explore every possible scenario before making a personally informed decision on whether or not we choose to believe what is being told or shown to us. Contrary to my own personal beliefs, there are individuals out there who use 'collective' thinking to make these decisions. I can only guess that their existence is necessary to ensure that my existence is possible.
I wished to actually write more on this and bring further light on the topic but I now understand and know much better than I did five hours ago and realize the err of my ways. I have also realized that when a thought is challenged that I should find more easier ways of letting people know that I don't digest everything put to me on a plate and that I actually like straying away for conventional wisdom and rely on my own intuitions, however wrong they may be, before I finally realize that I am either wrong or right. Either way doom is eminent and I have chosen this path for this very reason. No one came up with solutions for a better world by simply listening to the people around them and believing everything they were told. They thought and tried and tested and went back to the drawing board. Don't desert your thought pattern, its the most human thing we really have; yes even more than our emotions.
Music listened to while writing this blog - Two Steps Behind - Def Leppard
Mood while writing this blog - Contemplative
Friday, January 04, 2008
Achtung
As I write this blog, I am consistently plagued by the question of whether or not I should write it. The beginning of a new year usually starts with some kind of resolution. Perhaps I will give up smoking? Work towards world peace? Get a better job? Live a healthier life? But, the answer to all these silly resolutions is no. It was during the Christmas season that I first experienced what I really wanted to experience for the longest time. That is when I made the first resolute to actually work towards it. We all have a self-driven need within ourselves to be heard. Its what makes us popular as well as unpopular. However, its not the art of being heard that I am going to work towards for 2008 but its exact opposite. Yes ladies and gentlemen, its the art of invisibility and non-attention seeking that I am working towards for the new year. Many of the people reading my blog are then going to start asking the obvious questions, why keep writing the blog? Isn't that some sort of attention seeking? You can't just change like that overnight, can you? And, the answer to these questions will only be answered over the course of the year. I think I am tired of taking the light away from others or making others listen to what I have to say. I have realized its better to listen and acknowledge when you know there really is nothing better to offer. Does this make me a better person than an attention-seeker? Certainly not but I want to try it and see where it takes me.
Offer no solutions, preach no self-beliefs, just simply acknowledge what everyone says. Its going to be one of the hardest if not the most complicated changes I will have to implement but I think 365 days of this will teach me something I cannot learn from books or talks with my friends and when its done I will have gained something that I can finally call my own.
Wish Me Luck
Music Listened to While Writing This Post - U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Mood - F'ed Up
Offer no solutions, preach no self-beliefs, just simply acknowledge what everyone says. Its going to be one of the hardest if not the most complicated changes I will have to implement but I think 365 days of this will teach me something I cannot learn from books or talks with my friends and when its done I will have gained something that I can finally call my own.
Wish Me Luck
Music Listened to While Writing This Post - U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Mood - F'ed Up
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