Defiance is BliSs.....

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am!!


I just want you to know who i am!


Do you ever feel pulled between the societal barriers & self? Do you often have to face a conflict with yourself to do a particular thing even if you know you are right?


I don't think i can wear this and go out!! (simplest & insensible??) to I think India shd legalize Gay marriages.. (on a more serious)..
We pass through a host of such thoughts in our minds & hesitate to speak up most of them for fear of being rubbished by friends, society makers & people in general! We all want to loved & accepted at the same time!


Discussion down these lines with a friend led to him tell me this:
Quote: "There has always been a conflict between organization/societal/institutional structure and free will. An organization or a society is a collection of 'low-risk-low-return' people who herd themselves together for mutual benefit. People who (for various reasons) are not in that category are the obvious 'rebels' ... but they don't last too long. They either go mad (good), die (worse) or become 'low-risk-low-return' (worst) ... all equally inconsequential.


In my opinion (and this is just that ... 'my opinion') some people carve out a place where they can be at peace with both these worlds. And it is every person's own struggle ... to find this world within one's self." Unquote


I partially agree & disagree with him! Somehow i feel that everybody who rebels for their own cause may not always end up in deep shit ... I guess in order to discover your world and carve a place for yourself here, it is necessary to put up that fight.. Aint it?? Tell me...If i dont fight for my cause [whatever the cause maybe] who will?? If i dont get what i want who will? Most of these low risk & low return ppl often gang up together for mutual benefit because thats what they feel most comfortable with.


They probably cant face the nothingness inside them. They are all probably scared of the darkness that they might have to face.. Scared they might one day discover that they have chosen to write off their very purpose of existence on this planet... These guys also often conspire against the rebels because these are the people who make them believe that they [rebels] are not cowards like herd category and choose to take a different path...


Often these rebels can be categorized into 3 kinds...


1. The Follow me's:
The ones who love to control the herd [The bossy ones] These rebels are the ones that the herd is usually disquieted with. For eg: The Raj Thackerys or the ram senas... those types.. :D or the likes... [Did you see mumbai the day Thackery striked?? They were all inside their homes.. so early... The highway was goddamned empty at 7 in the evening.. I was so surprised/amused... :)] The Follow mes just have a little more than needed confidence, a little more than needed monetary power & a little more than needed contacts which makes it enough to misuse the power.. They love bossing over the herd.... and all they are concerned about is their personal benefit! But actually they are the biggest cowards.. A comman man. [low risk - low
return] types is probably aware of his negligible powers and that he is leading a life which does not make much sense.. but the follow mes have a motto - so let me either follow them - so i have a cause to look forward to - (though worthless) - or else even worse - criticize them behind their backs & silently run home for safety when terror strikes!
A lot of these low risk- return who aspire to be the wannabe Follow mes are ready to do almost anything for their masters in order to taste success! The follow mes are encased by a completely different energy.. deriving pleasure at the cost of the herd, frequently massaging their ego with the aspiring wannabes... !!


2. The pink chaddi campaign types...


The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose, and Forward Women have unleashed the Pink Chaddi campaign against the Sri Ram Sena.


Who rebel a rebel... These people are actually the people who belong to the 3rd category of rebels but often accept their existence as being a part of the herd. Its just sometimes that the third category rebel strikes within them & gives birth to a pink chaddi campaign... It was an interesting idea but according to me it did no good...Just pangs.. They come.. they inflate matters.. become renowned.. and then they are gone...back to the herd.. back to acceptance.


3. The Lonely travelers:


The rebels who prefer to live on their own ideologies - These are the ones who are not affected by the opinion of the herd and neither do the raj thackreys deter them.. Tell me, why shd the third category meet the same fate? These guys are probably the Oshos, The ayn rands..or the like or the types... i don't mean all philosophers but ya, different.. ones not scared.. not the part of the herd & still a part of life & society...
Ones who can talk abt sex, women rights, male chauvinism, gay rights, child prostitution & get away with it...
Even if they are initially accepted by the herd eventually they problems do pop up in one form or another... problems due to non acceptance with the travelers... They do not like the path travelers have chosen..
Apparently because they wish they were also lonely & happy to be traveling that way!
The travelers are very few in no.. [so the herd is of the opinion that they can probably be crushed over] and most of the times quite accessible unlike the Follow mes or the Pink chaddis... The herd do not deter their thoughts simply because they are apathetic to their actions/reactions & also because is nothing that is small minded about them..They either be written off as weird, eccentric, irritating... usually the titles which make them happy or their behavior is eventually accepted by the so called herd as a change in the being which then again becomes a norm..
And then there is a re - birth of another rebel... ;)


So, which category do you belong to??? .... ;)


Cheers,
Sne!