Gowramma

What strikes your mind when you hear Gowramma from far behind? Someone who is naïve and primitive? Someone who cannot catch up with social demands? Someone who is lacks worldly knowledge and shrewdness? Well! It could be cumulus of all or none of these.

The very perception is steadily escalating sense of premonition. Whilst name seldom heeds to attentivenesses, we grow under the shadow or assumption or what is perceived under favourable notes.

I was intrigued to think and write on the matter when I visited a restaurant last evening and observed a family with strange behaviour. Being definitely ordinary is usual but what spills out is slightly odd or weird. The family consisted of two couples, kids and an old man who could probably be the father or head of the family. The father or the old man looked mostly naïve and remained unaffected by the hissing noise of the children and boos expressed by his daughter-in-laws. The two look-alike sons remained silent throughout their stay at the restaurant and never got a chance to speak, or remained quiet for good.

I was often distracted by the Germany-Italy football match on the large screen but I tried not to fall asleep by not looking at this family. The wives or daughter-in-laws kept scrolling through the menu, commenting on the dishes whilst the waiter continued to wait.

One of the daughter-in-law made the bold move by asking the waiter to explain the ingredients of a dish, justify the pricing and so on. The entire act looked like a supernatural act and the weird sister-in-laws thoroughly deserved a diadem for it.

On the contrary of it all, the uncanny sister-in-laws looked very primitive and sounded utterly foolhardy. I took my eyes of the football game to watch the proceeding on this family. One of the weird sister-in-laws finally ordered Koithio (or mie goring) with much hesitation and when the dish arrived, I could sense her shabbier approach in serving. She stabbed the fork to the Omelet and the beaten egg was just about to be dropped off the bowl.

Conditionally, this made think of my younger days when these girls grow up in conservative families with restrictive surroundings. To makes things worse, the bridegrooms these families get too arrive from similar background thus making them master of puppets. Beyond engineering, medicine, sound bank-balance, two legs, hands, eyes et.al, father of the bride is mostly fine.

The circus starts when these newly-wed couples travel to their most desired destination, United States. Even their short visit across the Pacific makes them perfectly placed jokers in the circus. They start planning much ahead of time such that their kids grow into age and they forget how they lived in their yesteryear. Such couple change their dressing, food habits and approach to life so differently that someone like Dwight Eisenhower and the likes would think they are actually native Americans. 

Their accent suddenly changes and I wonder if this makes William Shakespeare forget his own.

The stupidity is yet to come. Their first visit back home completes the circus. Everything back home is compared to their newly adapted township. Cleanliness becomes paramount all of a sudden. Every act is questioned for rationale and so on and forth.

Adding more agony to the train of consequences, they go on endlessly appreciating their newly adapted township and market their appeal. Initially, friends and foes ignore the blast as excitement before someone recommends them to visit the nearest mental asylum. Perhaps, this does not change them either.

The character ‘Gowramma’ makes more sense introducing here at this point. This also added more juice to the goulash. Once the Gowramma is now a United States return and now knows it all. The autonomous structure of our society sadly upholds such Gowrammas effectively making a sad system.

Mother Earth has been bearing such nuisance for a long time and adding more vacant dreams to all of us. Years roll by, times do change and truth around us are harder in disguise as we face tomorrow. These Gowrammas are increasingly becoming common as I continue to wonder how a trip to the town across the Pacific can change one’s life so much.

I continue to wonder anyway.

Unsurmountable Imagination

For those who believe imagination has no age understands the world as a canvas to the imagination. Reality often leaves a lot to the imagination. Just like our doyens say; imagination and fiction makes up more than quarter of our lives. I have a vivid imagination that reality of the people is of those who lack imagination. Will imagination and dream ever be the same? Probably not. Fantasy mirrors desire and imagination reshapes it. We grow by exercise and contrary to that is the common belief. Surely, power of imagination makes it infinite and unsurmountable.

How subtle is the difference between dream, imagination and assumption? We imagine two notes to synchronise. Does it happen? In reality, it overlaps. In an overture, we play the second note when the first one is half done. We imagine it. Imagination is a virtual state of mind whereas dream creates mental images and emotions ideally occurring during sleep. Assumption is the hypothesis often taken for granted. However vivid or lucid your dream is, it often has the grotesque side of it.

Once again, the series of mental images or emotions could be the resultant of imaginative thoughts. Did you get how imagination and dream could be? Yes, it is. Albeit distinctive from its own nature, both imagination and dream are quite lucid. Yet they generate lifelike images circling you back to where you were before. It could quite be your mental representation of thoughts or confusion of impressions.

To a certain nature, impressions get along quite well with imagination. Both deal with vague ideas in which confidence is placed. The resultant could be an outward appearance or could be a favourable mental image.

When you look at subtle difference between illusion and fallacy, illusions deals with erroneous mental representation whilst fallacy deals with misconception and incorrect reasoning. They are all different in nature. Do we represent them correctly when we connote them in separate scenarios? Maybe not. Finer distinctions are often misread.

When imagination is unrestricted or unsurmountable, it becomes fantasy. When your optimism and imagination is more, you are often less biased. This objective consideration helps in being fair and prevents preconception. Often times, we use our freewill and discretion to form opinions. Ideally, this should not be the case. Our opinions should be undistorted by emotion or personal bias.

There was this time when I started to think how imagination and beliefs have overlaid our lives. Do we sense it? Are they the realm of sense or occult? I do not know. Beliefs are the psychological result of perception, learning and reasoning. Not necessarily true in all sense. Religion for instance deals with belief of supernatural power that control human destiny. Religion believes in divine power whilst science believes on experiments and observation. A lot of illogical imagination or perception may occur without the intervention of science. Religion and morality are not one and the same. Morality is based on ideas of right and wrong, good and evil. Religion cannot ascertain faith without ethics thus giving room for imagination and perception.

In moral philosophy, we have moral values and rules. These rules in principle are regarded as normative but in my opinion, they are conventional. In the end, we live in the world of fantasy. We live in the world of deceit. We dissimulate our identity in many cases and live in disguise.

We camouflage, conceal, imagine, believe and misrepresent ourselves with an outward semblance. Ultimately, we all live in our own mental representation and our egocentric behaviour does not permit our perceptions to fall through. We call this mother wit. Be it or not.

Culture or state of perfection?

We are often intrigued with question whether culture plays any role in enhancing our knowledge in art and manners or is it an everyday refinement? I do not know yet.

We keep hearing from all sides that each one of us possess rich culture and therefore deserve to have higher values shared by the society. Some people are engaged in social groups that are claimed to have rich taste in history, art and manners will therefore allow them to mingle with those selected sects. Is that what we call culture? I do not know yet, but I will soon find out.

Who enriches patience and tolerance? Or is culture reserved to those who acquire superior intellectual or social or economic status? Or does culture restricts you to certain religion, caste and embodiment? Does culture takes shape on concrete representation of benevolent behaviour? Or is benevolence being confused with sympathy, generosity and freeheartedness? Will any of this piece represent culture? In fairness, none of these.

Largely, cultural practices are still confined to religious sacraments, faith in supernatural power and unseen morality. This is truly the state of mind amongst masses. Having said that, the intensity of belief differs from social upbringing. In my view, culture is an ornamental sovereignty. Masses believe it, a smaller bunch question it and rest cares less.

A girl grown in my neighourhood thinks quite differently. Every word spoken by her parents is a conformance to reality irrespective of what you see, feel or perceive. The atmosphere in which she is growing makes her think that way. For her; caste, religion and belief plays utmost role in her life. She is reluctant in accepting what is proven by science or confirms to principles or methods used in science. This sort of adherence to culture, caste and religion forbids someone from experimenting with truth or reality. Culture is vaguely and distinctly dissimilar to what is perceived. In the name of culture, some use it to develop state of perfection, some use it to develop social groups. This girl seeks blessing from God to come out good in examination instead of working hard. The culture in itself is torn into pieces.

The moral value in which culture operates is quite high. There are symbolic connotations to every culture which is presiding in various social groups. You are often booed by such social groups when you deflect from such thoughts or practice. I call this exodus.

Most of these social groups or cultural groups are marred by those with obvious intentions. People with different traits often fail in such gathering. To certain extent, or in certain sect or culture, money ciphers your position, belief and knowledge to some degree.

Obeisance is not just reverence but also a sign of submission or shame. These are not just benevolent boons but also capitulation. These are often mistaken to resplendence or glory. People rehearse to be near-perfect and stay on top of such social groups. There is no state of perfection to culture or socialization. Culture in other words are for those people with similar mindset in certain social groups or practise what seems perfect.

Race to perfection has no finish line.

Nuclear families in the modern society

Philosophy often leads to rational investigation of questions about its existence, knowledge and ethics. I do not mean philosophy can go beyond personal belief or the compound of doctrines. What we perceive, wish to hear or feel mostly becomes our philosophy. These type of practices need not necessarily be constituted to old school of thought. One such philosophies developed in the modern times are nuclear families.

It is not very surprising to see conjugal families paving way to nuclear families with the emergence of industrialisation and capitalism. Some adrift without direction and rest are totally aimless. Larger families have undergone substantial social reform so to speak that they no longer exist. I have seen people sighting difference in opinions and claim they require higher vetoing power in order to sustain this paradigm shift. Extended and larger families no longer exists in its true sense.

Some say that they have moved on from the traditional practices sighting pragmatism. I am somewhat convinced I have moved away from typical family traditions for the sake of convenience, luxury or lavishness. This is often sighted as sumptuousness. I quite agree to it.

As we drift into practical matters, I started questioning the very existence of tradition and rationale behind it. The fundamental reasons or logic behind these traditions are hard to explain. Just how we relate lucrativeness to sizeable profits, moneymaking and remuneration; we tend to cripple traditions due to absence of social ideas or system.

During my formative years, I hung onto a coniferous tree just because my forefathers planted it. Neither I was pragmatic nor had to courage to question by forefathers about the practice that I was asked to follow. Something does not feel quite right. As I grew older, I grew into oblivion. It is difficult to explain your compeers about your social patterns, likes and dislikes. You are often disregarded or forgotten. Albeit it means very little in this context, you still linger to find out what is happening on the other side of the divide. This curiosity often kills the cat.

Whilst we hover around, leave slowly and hesitantly; someone else is making unfavourable criticism or find faults of your shortcomings. Traditionists are sometimes stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded. Being prudent does not mean you circumspect the situation with discreet. This is precisely what happens to those who swim against the tide. Then you moan in despair and dismay. Somewhere you reach a state in which all hopes are lost or assume they are absent.

I am often confronted by traditionists, often facing hostile opposition for the same reason and I think otherwise on their practices. The most hilarious thing is when they drag science into it and fail to exhibit the relation between the two. Science examines the questions posed by scientific theories and hypotheses whereas tradition is an inherited pattern adhering to traditional views. I see no science in it unless science proves it otherwise.

You have been living here so long undisturbed, dream of the time when you were free and undisturbed and suddenly you are encompassed into these traditional practices. You no longer pick those pieces, put they away. Several nuclear families today are formed as an oppression to these traditional views and illogical relations to the practical matter. With the retrospection on how families lived, none of them went any further to question the society in which they lived. For sure, this is an ordeal of the past if not trial by fire.

These are hell's perpetual fires for the years and decades to come. I am more profoundly concerned about the changes we live in. Lot of modern day nuclear families are more dynamic, affluent and well planned. However, this does not mean they are sound in their judgements. The older generation continue to claim they are the realm of the occult but that may not be the case in all true sense. If you look at the sizeable combination of both conjugal and nuclear families, there is an element of truth on both sides. Practical living is often mistaken to being correct or appropriate. You need to ratify in order to ascertain the truth or the fact behind it. The tales are twisted to the need of the individual and thus nothing ascertains the practical examination of the fact.

We all agree as far as we can see. It is just the way of the world. Nothing comes out as surprise than blatant ignorance. The formation of nuclear families not just lies with difference in opinion or compatibility. It is far beyond driven. In some cases, they are strong and a sudden outburst. Someone who can make clear distinctions and find the subtle difference between one another will know for sure that system has failed.

In the years to come, there will be more nuclear families rising from East to West, North to South and beyond the horizons. People will be grossly blasphemous towards what is held to be sacred, religious and what is cited as traditional boundaries. This in turn becomes exodus and the new pattern may follow.

With the course of every sunrise and sunset, there arises a person questioning the rationale behind the traditions, religions and practices we followed. Life goes on!

Convulsion of thoughts

The very idea of putting convulsion of thoughts is not to slip by with my ideas and opinions. These are by far and large practical to what we undergo in my daily lives. Subjectiveness is often opposed to objectiveness. These thoughts are culmination of both objective and subjective and I do not intend to dwell into the appropriateness of the subject any longer.

Grass is Greener on the other side – A war broke years ago and each side of the divide feels the other better. None went any further thinking we are ought to fight and die anyway. If the other side have better equipment, you are bound to die sooner rather than later. Sometimes, your position is well equipped with certainly and intention

Inspiration – Today, we have more people to inspire than to follow or perform. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Those who ought to like you for whatever you are will continue to do so. There is no paradigm of perfection or concise. We life by our intuitions and that is the most appropriate thing to do

Motivation – I do not see this being very different from Inspiration. A lot of people have taken to motivate/ inspire people without fully or not knowing the very intend of life. It is so difficult to explain someone what your goals are why you wish to do it differently. When someone cannot motivate oneself, how do you expect such a genius to motivate you? The very rationale of life is to be what you are and be proud to do right things at the right time

Compare – Another form of frustration. The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. Someone who does not know your journey compares you to those who are completely different to you and bogs your down. Your intellectual ability is not a direct proportion on number of inventions or doing things differently. A good smelling fruit need not be tasty. You have your goals, ambitions and desire. Make your own road

Education versus knowledge – Dwelling on this matter makes me more objective and nothing else. To quote Albert Einstein in this regard, I learnt that knowledge is more important than education. Not necessarily vice versa. This may not apply to government retired people, corporate people and few intellects around the world

Analogy – Not very different from assumptions. We do not see what we believe and believe what we do not see. Intuitions, perceptions, interpretations, assumptions and guess work are probably the reason for all of these. When you set your mind, you will neither change, nor wish to let go your ego. Sometimes, you know a bit and assume the rest. This completes the analogy

Effectiveness – The most effective work invented in twentieth century. Very physiological in nature. No one knows what it actually means and intends to remove abrasiveness in your sentence. Expecting or concluding someone’s effectiveness is only your perceptions, not the real matter. At that time, our opinions matter the most and acts are prelude to the ongoing assassination

Sane – Often refers to mental health. Those who are sane never show up and those who do are never sane. You cannot do the same thing again and again and expect different results. Sound judgments are always reasonable. Philosophy starts only after logic ends, not the otherwise

Manners – Your social deportment does not represent your true stature. Getting off the road, playing in the slush and few mischievous activities does not make you mannerless. Those who are in five-piece-suit always gets buried in their best suit. If all of these is for money, a race driver earns more than a corporate executive, Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates were dropouts and ended up as billionaires. All of these folks did what they liked. There is no definition to manners

Law of the land - You need not act as a roman in Rome if you paying a short visit. I do not think any of us intend to spend all of lives in the office and so to adjust our attitude, character and habits. A good life is important, you define it

Marked by rarity and stupid intelligence

I have been blogging for over half a decade now and I have not found a topic that is close to my heart. But I could somehow convince my heart to choose another subject and move on. I may not find what I am looking for or something of that sort but that will not leave me in disarray. The ordeal, I go by primitive method of determining absolute guilt or dissatisfaction. A severe or trying experience

In most cases, or by unanimity; consensus reflects differences in theoretical positions or those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus. A time for letting go. Bring prudent or excessively concerned sometimes leaves you in jittery and edgy. A place often reserved for girlfriends and parents. We often write them in our yearbooks

We continue to assume, world is falling on our shoulders and put ourselves in overstrung positions. A character often culpable of sheer negligence and over prudence. Having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand is always pertinent. Striking appropriateness and pertinence leaves you evocative verbal images. A resonance you yonder for years. I call this morbid curiosity

During my interactions with a friend of mine, I often hear and experience his garbled and distorted ideas. I somehow get warped to his thoughts. But back when I realise, I know his thoughts are perverted and lacks general conscious awareness. The only difference between good and bad sense is practical judgment. Something, not easily sold or available in market

Someone who is false or overly optimistic is hard to change. This is erroneous mental representation and illusory ideas are hard to examine even by naïve observers. Something very conjuring

Some of those conversations are cabalistic and cryptic. There is a meaning hidden somewhere I perhaps. Something you fail to comprehend or encompass with your thoughts. Our anticipation often ends in dread or anxiety. I could never find out the reason. Just hold on. Life goes on

The regression or the abnormal state of representation often shows us up as infantile. We are very abysmal you see! We are unsurmountable. We have stupid intelligence to prove our half-certified wits and mark them with rarity. What else, we mark them with grandeur and proclaim its worth

Probably sanity is what remains in the end. After reading so many authors over the years, I could somehow relate somewhere to their mental representation of their symbolic connotation. Few writers stand out for me regardless of their expertise in the matter. Fiction, motivation and self-help writers always looked less attractive than ever. It also meant I stayed away from people writing business stories and their success stories. For once, we do not realise each other’s journey is different. How can you teach a baby, the nuclear physics?

The world never fell on your shoulders. Neither will it anytime. Again, time for letting it go. Learn to believe in. Life goes on

The time elapsed often talks of the past times. This is cognitive psychology. It connects, emphasises and deals with internal memory. Something, I relish when I have no work or less work. I call it scenes from the memory. Every episode is a story of its own

During my formative years, we learn and perceive what was taught rather than what was correct. Based on our perceptions, we build reasons to convince ourselves. This is painful than ever. We thereby deceive ourselves to the highest degree. Who are we here to prove? Who are we here to convince? What are we here to do? Are we base lining our reasoning based on analytical inferences? This system of reasoning is often dealt with inferior thought process

It took me half my life to understand the difference between education and knowledge. Something, Dr. Einstein was well versed and subjective. Time after time, we continue to realise the relative aspect of various instances that have surpassed the bygone era. The memory of sorrow is often long sighted than the momentary lapse of reason. Each one of us only wish to hear, speak and feel what looks/ feels good to us. Thus, we limit our vision, imagination, foresightedness and above all; ambition

Every individual thinks he can win a coherent argument, aesthetically consistent and expressing oneself in the most lucid way possible. When opinions goes unyielding, the burrs start to look obvious. Even the subtle differences become fine distinctions. But remember! There is nothing right or wrong. Being judgmental is not always faultfinding based on personal opinions. They can be the result of unprecedented criticism or just calling attention to faults. It is the way we look at it

There is no perfect conformity to fact or truth. Most of the decision, opinions, impressions, feelings and notions are developed based on vague idea of some sort of confidence. An odd and fanciful idea perhaps

Someone who is devoid of morale is often discontented with formal change. This quench of inductive behaviour is often dangerous and farce. It is grotesque and scary at times. We do not know what to call it. We thereby go 

by assumptions

We would have heard the stories of kings and queens, rulers and dictators, fascists and so on. Have you ever thought what fascinated you and why?  Probably, nothing came closer to grab your attention. You know why? Nothing ever meant to you as long as it happened to you. The fact is closer to worse. History is always repeated when you are condemned to do it, to remember it

Rulers, presidents, dictators, kings, queens and fascists were made over a period of time. Rome was not built in a day. There will be ground-breaking rationale behind every occurrence. This may be true to whose you keep close to your heart as well. Inference or discrimination are more-or-less the same capacity for rational thought. They arrive to a same sort of phenomenon

There is nothing called distinguishing good from evil. If you remember, these are rousing your emotions. A single jolt to disturb your composure and abrupt your spasmodic movement is enough to reshuffle your thoughts. This will suffice me to believe we are made of single line memories. We often/ only take what sounds good to our ears and nothing beyond. Nothing beyond the astral skies

God is calling..... (Volume Work - 02)

• God is absurd
• God is a derivative of almighty
• God does go by caste, creed and colour. You may laugh reading this
• God pays no second thoughts
• God believes in unpredictable phenomenon. Else, how can he blame his fortune?
• God does believe in bird of passage. Else, he cannot laugh at other’s misfortune
• God is uninformed about other’s good deeds. He is misinformed about other’s destinies
• God’s folks are third world losers
• God is unsurmountable, but his words are devastating
• A former devotee of God once said; I was great when I was with you, now I am exemplary
• God pays dividends in the form of curse
• God is marked by defiant disregard, devoid of good sense and judgment
• God’s team is shattered, but his almighty continues to bless
• God has three musketeers; disbelief, distrust and dishonest
• God pays no homage; he lacks the understanding of respectful deference
• God’s regression is the retroflection of his own foul deeds
• God’s articulatory gesture is not made of discomfort, but of absolute insecurity
• There is no second God