It's every mortal's innate desire to loom in people's memory for something he did after he has crossed the bar...but I have neither done anything worth writing; nor written anything worth remembering. In the words of Chandler Muriel Bing (born April 8, 1968), "If I were to die right now, the only way people could know of my existence would be by the ass-print I leave on this chair!"
In a desperate effort to make one's own name the first thing in history, a chinese king once destroyed all the clay-tablets (the means of recording history in those days, quite a few millenia ago) which predated him. I doubt not that my best friend, who happens to be a history geek, would start recalling the entire chapter in an orderly fashion...but the paradox is that I, myself, still don't remember his name; thus for me, His Excellency's entire excercise has proved only too futile!
So in an effort to make my contribution, I hereby call upon to unite the entire world; on the mere fact that we all at some point of time face failures. And then, I divide it once again into two parts. From my wide & rich collection of anecdotes I could deduce a theory (which is not to be taught in class-rooms of course!) about how poeple take the events happening to them.
The happy lot following the theme of "half a glass full" more often than not, keeps thinking about what they didn't get & keeps cursing it; what Aesop's fox did, when it didn't get the grapes.....what is known as SOUR GRAPES SYNDROME!
The unhappy lot, on the contrary, following the "half a glass empty" theme; keeps thinking about how they could have got something better and that they still don't have something good enough. To summerize in one line using the language of a glibberty gibbets, they believe in "The myth of the pastoral foliage being inequitable for the better being consistently induced in the onlooker of the meadow which is made marginally inaccessible by a palisade!". Now rephrasing it for those less well-versed with the lexicon & 'Wren & Martin', these are effectively the people who believe that "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence!".....what I like to call the GREEN GRASS SYNDROME!
Always remember, whatever decision you make, you are constantly falling in either of the two categories, because as of now I don't seem to find any grey areas. And though the world will neither come to know of my theory nor get to the imprints I leave on my chair; it will continuously & consistantly keep justifying my theory, like it has always done so far. Now the reader might dare ask what new I have propounded, but then, did you look things up in this light ever before? There lies my claim to fame & immortality...!
hasmukh :)
2 comments:
cud u plz "SIMPLIFY" or just give me the "CENTRAL IDEA" of ur "Of Grass n Grapes"......... ha ha ha
Well...after deep thinking (not to mention loosing my sleep over it), I have arrived to the conclusion that you have a right to know what the "central idea" is. The post just goes ahead to show how people take their failures; and just like majority of the theories, it doesnt propound anything new, but puts things in perspective. Pardon me, I can't get simpler than this.
P.S.: "So simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple!"
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