Introduction
For many years, I struggled with my desire to write about
life and the multitude of opinions and ideas that have accumulated in my mental
closet over the years. That desire has waxed and waned with the passing of the
seasons but never has it once taken leave of my mind fully. The cynic would
call that a result of a burgeoning ego; the pragmatic would deem it a waste of
precious time and energy. I have never really worried myself with the
definition of the underlying reasons for this tendency. It has always been a
subconscious pull, a dull hum that seems to easily fade into the background yet
which never really goes away.
If there is a need to give a name
to this, I would term it my calling.
The world today is fraught with
complications and complexities. It is progessively growing more violent, more
aggressive. That technology has grown leaps and bounds has not helped in
mitigating the turbulence that is plaguing our planet. Weapons are becoming
more potent by the day. We now see technology manifesting itself as death and
destruction, what with the brilliant minds of a large number of our elite
scientists being channeled to the development of tools and mechanisms meant to
kill, maim and restraint our fellow beings.
By and large, the world has
become desensitised to the devastation that we wreak upon our own kind. We have
become unfeeling to the damage that we unleash on our home planet. In our
self-centred pursuit for pleasure and physical satisfaction, we think little of
excessive consumption of our natural resources of oil, trees, water and land.
Generation after generation, children who grow up into the decision-makers of
our civilisation are educated, both consciously and subconsciously, to
emphasise more on sensual gratification. The extent at which communications is
expanding via the Internet has accelerated the degradation of moral values as
well as the lop-sided shift of the fundamental concept of good and evil, and of
right and wrong.
It was not with a
holier-than-thou mentality that I have written this blog. I am one of the new
generation. I bear the same responsibility towards the world and the universe
as all others of this time period. This set of writings is, if you may so call
it, my contribution to my fellow beings. It is a consolidation of the
perspectives that I have collected over the last thirty years, a compilation
that has been filtered so that the ideas contained within are easily
understood. This blog is not meant to be a monologue. You will have your own
ideas and concepts; all I ask is that you maintain open-mindedness in order to
have an unbiased and unprejudiced read of the writings. That, afterall, is the
whole reason why you are reading this blog in any case.
In the last section of the
writings, the ways in which I can be contacted with regards to this blog (and
any other things in life) are detailed. I would love to hear and learn from
your perspectives on the various issues that have been discussed in this blog.
With this, I wish you a good
read.
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