By Aditya S Krishna
A Rhetoric on Faux pas and Individualities
If you had all the time and resources to do anything by yourself in all of this earth's worldly possibilities; what would you do?
Your options would be endless, but before any of us answer this question, we will think twice about how wise it would be to choose what we would choose. Watch movies or read books? There are only finitely interesting ones, and our attention span would let go. Eat or sleep? These are musts for our existence anyway. What else then? Sing and dance? Hunt? Play a sport? Cook? There are shortcomings to each and every one of these, trespassing beyond our interests and eventually dying on us as activities, although can be a persistent engagement on the human mind.
When given a practical opportunity, each and every one of us will reach the conclusion that we would explore, reflect and document. It is the ultimate truth of humankind, to think and observe and think more and reflect and keep dreaming in the endless spiral of our minds. Writing, painting, capturing as we tread up and down the vast terrains of the physical globe and metaphysical realities. It is towards the end of our life that we realize that all that we have experienced, thought about and physically or mentally documented is all that will remain with us. If at all we as humans have any sort of responsibility entrusted to us while we live, it will be, to live. To live in a way that at the end of which we do not lie and regret any of the moments of our life that flashes by us in dying breaths.
Creative outputs- puke buckets, gathered thoughts, pot-pourri, expression, documentation; however you want to call it, are what keep humanity still in existence. Sure, the practical realities and scientific discourses do keep us grounded, but only in the pursuit of dreamy thoughts and angelic nightmares in our minds.
Our greatest gift would thus be the use and application of this beautiful brain we possess. Use it to see, feel, think and live as both a reality and memory. Movies, art, music and dance, writing are all opportune ways to make life memorable while living and it is these vivid captures that show the true reason for our existence.
As humans, subscribing to structures and order provides some form of comfort that puts us down by bringing uniformity and uni-polarity in all our abilities, thought pattern and potential. Should we really stand on this line and follow something that constricts our minds journey, rob it of experiences and kill this uniqueness that people possess? Subduing the special is diagnosed as an outlier, when in fact we are designed in that way, it is the reason we are all independent of each other's experiences, thoughts and feelings. People are inherently not social because they are born into it, they are social because they choose to be.
Being creatively distinctive is not anyone's fault, but rather a quality to rear and grow. Being creative should not mean falling into place in the world, but rather seeking discomfort and creating disorder while inspiring your mind to be more creative and soul to wander more; exist in a never-ending faux pas while not realizing it.
According to me, a person must always have this creative puke bucket, showing the falseness of society's crumbling order, experiences of free souls, memories left behind, inspiring chaos, pushing boundaries; but most importantly, on a separate journey as an individual.
By Aditya S Krishna
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