Freedom..... a word with myriad connotations..... in today's modern world we may be relatively free to move about (unless you are a woman in gurgaon), free to earn (despite the IT and red tapism), freedom of speech (barring the harping of a sycophant lawyer minster), freedom to life (well denied if you are in love in the Khaapland) and are free to read (ahem... excluded if you frequent the libraries in Kolkata). well you must be then wondering what freedom i wish to speak of... so my friends the freedom i sorely miss is the freedom to err, to be wrong, to be deviant, to be imperfect.....
i find it strange, the quest in today's world to be perfect.... well you can't be fat, you can't not speak bad English, be unkempt, badly turned out or for that matter do anything badly..... you just cant be improper without being apologetic about it.... i mean ypu cant even be freckly or pimply without having to listen to people's sermons about how to get rid of them.....
my 14 yr old brother diets... when he's reed thin, coz he does'nt wanna turn fat lest his friends stop speaking to him... asks me if he's looking fairer today..... it makes me cringe from within.... y cant u be fat and ugly and be allowed to live in peace..... not be ostracized for your appearance....
i mean be beautiful if u wish to... but people who do not wish to be so, must be also allowed to co-exist without 70 people rebuking them in a day....
studies also.... young children committing suicide cause they don't pass exams or even worse their parents' expectations..... what is this world coming onto... where we can't take or accept failure....
ohhh more importantly you can't even be improper on the internet, the world where nothing ever goes away, pictures, videos, tweets, post and well blogs.....
it has become increasingly difficult and unacceptable to err on this platform, what with employers, schools, colleges and not to forget the government keeping a tab on your social networking...i mean WHY... why should i not be allowed a moment of weakness or madness or impulsive action or just uttering something i believe in.....
i mean i just read an article where emloyers have decided to ask for an employee's fb password.... like holy crap... what r dey gonna check... if i've had a drunken night, a public spat or have cursed an ex employer or boss?????? and what if i hv... pls bring along somebody who hasn't.....
schools punishing children for writing against a teacher????? Hell!!! wud their feelings change if they hadn't written it... who doesn't crib....
i mean chuck India, i just read spring breaks turning tame in the US because of employers discriminating against student with wild photos and videos... really....
just because i'm drunk and acting mad one day during my college, tells absolutely zilch about me.... it doesn't at all mean that i'll turn up for work all sloshed or anything....
people rush to delete an inappropriate post lest they be brought up in office, dont get clicked on their spring breaks..... i mean WTF.... why live in fear?
just yesterday saw a journalist cringing about an irresponsible piece she wrote in her early twenties, which has found it's way to the internet... in her mid-forties she continues to be questioned of it's merit and all she can ever say was that she was young once....
everybody is young only once and lives only once, they must not be stripped off their right to be imperfect, improper, mad and impulsive just because digitisation can store our moments for posterity....
looking back should be a source of joy nd nt embarrassment...... we must not be asked to give away our joys of irresponsibility....
is this the revenge of the apes???? for i feel no different from a caged animal in a zoo... up for display and being judged 24*7......
i find it strange, the quest in today's world to be perfect.... well you can't be fat, you can't not speak bad English, be unkempt, badly turned out or for that matter do anything badly..... you just cant be improper without being apologetic about it.... i mean ypu cant even be freckly or pimply without having to listen to people's sermons about how to get rid of them.....
my 14 yr old brother diets... when he's reed thin, coz he does'nt wanna turn fat lest his friends stop speaking to him... asks me if he's looking fairer today..... it makes me cringe from within.... y cant u be fat and ugly and be allowed to live in peace..... not be ostracized for your appearance....
i mean be beautiful if u wish to... but people who do not wish to be so, must be also allowed to co-exist without 70 people rebuking them in a day....
studies also.... young children committing suicide cause they don't pass exams or even worse their parents' expectations..... what is this world coming onto... where we can't take or accept failure....
ohhh more importantly you can't even be improper on the internet, the world where nothing ever goes away, pictures, videos, tweets, post and well blogs.....
it has become increasingly difficult and unacceptable to err on this platform, what with employers, schools, colleges and not to forget the government keeping a tab on your social networking...i mean WHY... why should i not be allowed a moment of weakness or madness or impulsive action or just uttering something i believe in.....
i mean i just read an article where emloyers have decided to ask for an employee's fb password.... like holy crap... what r dey gonna check... if i've had a drunken night, a public spat or have cursed an ex employer or boss?????? and what if i hv... pls bring along somebody who hasn't.....
schools punishing children for writing against a teacher????? Hell!!! wud their feelings change if they hadn't written it... who doesn't crib....
i mean chuck India, i just read spring breaks turning tame in the US because of employers discriminating against student with wild photos and videos... really....
just because i'm drunk and acting mad one day during my college, tells absolutely zilch about me.... it doesn't at all mean that i'll turn up for work all sloshed or anything....
people rush to delete an inappropriate post lest they be brought up in office, dont get clicked on their spring breaks..... i mean WTF.... why live in fear?
just yesterday saw a journalist cringing about an irresponsible piece she wrote in her early twenties, which has found it's way to the internet... in her mid-forties she continues to be questioned of it's merit and all she can ever say was that she was young once....
everybody is young only once and lives only once, they must not be stripped off their right to be imperfect, improper, mad and impulsive just because digitisation can store our moments for posterity....
looking back should be a source of joy nd nt embarrassment...... we must not be asked to give away our joys of irresponsibility....
is this the revenge of the apes???? for i feel no different from a caged animal in a zoo... up for display and being judged 24*7......
nice post dear... i m following u... wen's d next one coming..
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