What determines the choices we make? One might say it is affected by family, friends, colleagues, the environment and so on. But essentially it boils down to two factors, your heart and mind. Quite often we do a lot of things which may not make much sense and even though you are fully aware of the nonsensicality of it, you still end up doing it. This is where the heart comes into play, you do it because you want to do it and feel like doing it. Full Stop.
I can spend hours looking at and admiring planes as they fly over your head, ships as they sleath solitarily in the middle of the ocean, trains as they puff their way over the bridges, and a sleek dark couloured car making its way through the mounatins. I can also spend hours looking at and admiring the birds and animals and fishes as they do the work nature has assigned. Both fill me with a sense of contenment and serenity.
So how does one react when your mind tells you that these mordern modes of transporation are killing nature, little by little, when you also fully aware that growth and development might not have been possible without tchnological advancement. Therin lies the tradeoff. The need to strike a balance.
Striking a balance...easier said than done, especially when the point of balnce is very personal and may even be quite inane. It is hard to look at life black and white, when all you see around you are the greys.
So life is basically not for making choices. It is just to live. When you reach that point where your heart and mind merge and you are in perfect equilibrium, then you know you have lived your life.
I want to buy a car. Lack of purchasing power and a certain thing called drivers license prevents me from doing so. But when I can, I wonder whether i will buy a Honda Civic or a Toyota Prius... or the Honda Civic Hybrid.
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2 comments:
So, I have the honour of posting the first comment I see. It is an interesting post. Got me thinking about whether I make my decisions with my heart or my head. I though I would like to believe that it is with the latter, I resort to the former most often I guess. I thought you sounded rather fatalistic or more precisely in lines with what my Karma theory would say. But at some level I thought you sounded like an existentialist. Like what krishna, said to Arjuna - Life is your duty, live and perform that duty and not question the consequences. I am not sure whether we can make such decisions which are non-consequential in terms of consideration. Amartya sen critiques this argument by Krishna and bases his philosophical standpoint to approaching a lot of questions to life, including poverty. (Read the first chapter in Argumentative Indian, or i can give u original reference if u want). Since you have been using economic terms- like equilibrium, trade off etc, I would like to reason it the same way. It is like externality. There me instances like staring at planes, which doesn't involve more people. Then it makes no big difference. But often choices are motivated by what could be externalities if they are not accounted for. May be it is a curse of being a social animal. But thats the way we reason.
Keep writing. I enjoyed it!
What i got out of your comment is that the outcome of an action will determine what choices you make.I guess you really cant make any choice without a care for the consequences, more so if they affect other people like you mention.
Glad you liked it and yes, will keep writing. I think reading and writing are the only things that
keep me sane.
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