Bijesh Nagesh's Blog, page 91

Never...

Most people are untrustworthy. But you can never trust someone who doesn’t like animals.

Culprit of Chaos

The manner in which protests, revolts, riots, dissent, lawlessness, and terrorism unravel anywhere in the world – and the manner in which people behave during such disturbances and unrest – proves that Human Nature, NOT race or religion, is the defining culprit of chaos.

The eye

Our eyes get drunk more than our bellies ever will.

The Game

When someone uses words like “I fought really hard to get this” or “I worked so much to get here”, what they’re really saying is... “You have no frikkin’ clue how many people I had to beg, borrow, and steal from to stand here before you, revealing the one victory in hand while hiding the one hundred failures behind it.”

Nostalgia

“We had it good, but we never knew how good we had it.”

Memories & Feelings

Feelings come and feelings go, but Memories are forever. Funny how the memory reminds you of the feeling. Funnier how the feeling had to be strong enough to create the memory. A 'which-came-first' conundrum unfolds. Whenever you randomly ‘feel’ something, out of the blue, for no rhyme or reason… Are you also ‘recalling’ a memory? From a past life, perhaps? A memory that you cannot connect to anything sensible in this one? ‘Feelings’ are just as vivid, and tangibly so, in the dream state. When we dream, are we ‘remembering’ moments from past lives? Are those feelings any less real than the ones we sense after waking up? If we are making all this up as we go, then what about the Performing Arts, i.e., Acting? The performers pretend to ‘feel’ and ‘remember’ things connected to their character. Through their pretence, audiences and viewers also ‘feel’ and ‘remember’ what the character is going through. Does this imply a ‘collective memory’ inspired over the course of several lifetimes? Does it hint at the possibility of a ‘shared experience’, one that each person might have ‘felt’ and stored in their own soul ‘memory’, and they ‘recall’ and ‘relate to’ it when they see it happening around them, in reality, Art, and dreams. It seems like Science asks impossible questions while Art provides unverifiable answers.

The Finding

The Story seeks the Writer.
The Book finds the Reader.

Mistaken

When Exploitation is mistaken for Intelligence, everyone loses.

The Insanity of Genocide

The more you think about ‘Genocide’, the worse it gets. It entails some people believing that other people shouldn’t live. The fact that Life itself created those people makes no difference to the genocidal mind.
Some types of people whom Life created want other types of people who were also created by Life to stop living. Is there a reason for this madness? Apparently not. Once you’ve ‘chosen’ to hate someone, all the logic in the world won’t wake you up from your pretend-slumber.

The Comedy of Pretense

Some people are so sweet that they give you cavities, and those can be so painful. If you know such a person, and if you happen to have a sweet tooth, don’t hesitate to bite them with it.
Being fake is never in vogue.