You get the most startling epiphanies when you are absolutely at peace with yourself. The fact that you are at peace with yourself itself is a startling epiphany to begin with. This is more so true if there is a lot of commotion all around you, or at least, if that's how you feel.
So without further ado, I shall Wordify my thoughts for the sake of humanity. By the way, the word "Wordify" is the act of typing text into Microsoft Word. Now, with that technicality sorted, let's move on!
We humans are inquisitive by nature. We also have an incessant need to categorize, label and name things, let alone bring things to closure, just so that we can live in peace. Let us first concentrate on the "inquisitive" side of our behavior. This is the part in us that is AWESOME! Everything we have done so far is because of 5 Ws' and one H. Strangely enough, by the time most of us finish our 'education', we only have one W remaining with us. That is W for Why.
And hence, you hear "Why me?" so often...
Now, about bringing things to a closure. We seek closure. We seek solace in closure. I'll give you a classic example.
How sad/ happy one gets on getting mystical hints that his/her lover loves/doesn't love him/her, respectively... if you know what I mean.
Remember the end of BBC's Sherlock season 2? The scene, as most viewers know, was the modern-day Reichenbach Falls. Sherlock jumps off, is shown to have died, and magically reappears in the graveyard scene, and the viewers are SO happppy!!
I have personally seen fans of the TV series rack their heads over the mystery of how Sherlock Holmes survived the fall. You see, the hero never dies. Irrespective of what things look like. Here, I quote Batman as usual..
Let's look at another more recent event that raised the bar for Indian cinema. LUNCHBOX! Here's a rare instance where the brilliance of what was on display totally empowered our incessant need for a happy ending. The director leaves the end of the movie to our imagination. Another movie that pulled this trick of killing our need for closure is Inception. Remember the spinning totem in the end?And what did we, the viewers do to such movies? We marveled at them. Not just because these movies are bluntly brilliant, but because they did not provide a highly resolved finishing move.
And if you carefully notice, what I have been doing in the last paragraph is exactly the second nature of humans I mentioned above, i.e trying to explain why things are the way they are. Despite feeling like a complete hypocrite, I still live by the fact that few things should just be left to be. No conflict, no conflict resolution. Their novelty rests in their inexplicableness.
As a closing example... let's hit something for a home-run
Does god exist? Who knows? If you do, how do you know?
Does god not exist? Again, who knows?If not, how do you know he/she/it does not?
Just because a rock, the shape of a face rose someplace in the middle of nowhere, don't go and build a temple around it. And just because the existence of something "looks", "feels" improbable, don't shun it.
There are somethings we can buy. For everything else,
And thank you, Mastercard!
So without further ado, I shall Wordify my thoughts for the sake of humanity. By the way, the word "Wordify" is the act of typing text into Microsoft Word. Now, with that technicality sorted, let's move on!
We humans are inquisitive by nature. We also have an incessant need to categorize, label and name things, let alone bring things to closure, just so that we can live in peace. Let us first concentrate on the "inquisitive" side of our behavior. This is the part in us that is AWESOME! Everything we have done so far is because of 5 Ws' and one H. Strangely enough, by the time most of us finish our 'education', we only have one W remaining with us. That is W for Why.
And hence, you hear "Why me?" so often...
Now, about bringing things to a closure. We seek closure. We seek solace in closure. I'll give you a classic example.
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| He/She loves me.... He/She loves me not... |
How sad/ happy one gets on getting mystical hints that his/her lover loves/doesn't love him/her, respectively... if you know what I mean.
Remember the end of BBC's Sherlock season 2? The scene, as most viewers know, was the modern-day Reichenbach Falls. Sherlock jumps off, is shown to have died, and magically reappears in the graveyard scene, and the viewers are SO happppy!!
I have personally seen fans of the TV series rack their heads over the mystery of how Sherlock Holmes survived the fall. You see, the hero never dies. Irrespective of what things look like. Here, I quote Batman as usual..
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself turn into a villain.And besides, after The Final Problem, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had to reboot Sherlock Holmes purely because of pressure from fans.
Let's look at another more recent event that raised the bar for Indian cinema. LUNCHBOX! Here's a rare instance where the brilliance of what was on display totally empowered our incessant need for a happy ending. The director leaves the end of the movie to our imagination. Another movie that pulled this trick of killing our need for closure is Inception. Remember the spinning totem in the end?And what did we, the viewers do to such movies? We marveled at them. Not just because these movies are bluntly brilliant, but because they did not provide a highly resolved finishing move.
And if you carefully notice, what I have been doing in the last paragraph is exactly the second nature of humans I mentioned above, i.e trying to explain why things are the way they are. Despite feeling like a complete hypocrite, I still live by the fact that few things should just be left to be. No conflict, no conflict resolution. Their novelty rests in their inexplicableness.
As a closing example... let's hit something for a home-run
Does god exist? Who knows? If you do, how do you know?
Does god not exist? Again, who knows?If not, how do you know he/she/it does not?
Just because a rock, the shape of a face rose someplace in the middle of nowhere, don't go and build a temple around it. And just because the existence of something "looks", "feels" improbable, don't shun it.
There are somethings we can buy. For everything else,
And thank you, Mastercard!
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