A Joker

A funny creature, as you may discard it as, have you ever thought about its importance? A joker, whom you can debase to the lowest possible value in a deck of cards or as you may please, enthrone it and make it a king as well... or how about an ace? Yeah, the same joker assumes different forms at different instances in time, without complaining, without asking for anything in return, yet without having any value of its own. Sometimes it may amuse you with the notion of immense power you feel in its presence and sometimes you may curse yourself as being ill-fated because of its absence. The fact is, be it a play of cards or be it your own life, every now and then you need jokers.. whom you can treat as you may please without ever expecting any sigh of protest from them. Those are the creatures who are important to you whenever you need and whenever you don't need. Have you ever discarded a joker card as a left over? That is the least possible value a person can have in your life, a left over. Jokers come very handy as left overs. That way no one else can claim them, and you also get to not claim them at the same time, disclaiming them just as an orphan entity. You just choose to discard it while prohibiting others from accepting it. Have you ever thought about what the joker might be thinking? It must be very lonely there.. doing all these good to the humanity, claiming no dignity, no loyalty, no love, no affection, no compassion and no existence at all. Sometimes, I feel a joker is the most spiritual entity in this world. Somehow, it has been able to attain liberty and indifference towards life. However you treat it, it never revolts, never deceives, rather in return it benefits you whenever you need. and I mean, only when you need. It does not give you unnecessary advices, neither does it interfere in your normal life. Although there are very few, as few as you can count them on fingers, I am very fond of such persons, the real jokers. Someday, I wish to be a joker... once and for all.

The pursuit of happ'y'ness

By any standards, I dare say I still see myself in the category of those who keep wondering "what exactly happened?". Somehow the speed of evolution seems to have crossed the limits set by my mind based on my immature beliefs which sometimes allow me to think that "Sab moha maaya hain" and nothing is going to change the way it is changing. Everybody has his/her own task cut out and everybody is doing it with utmost honesty. Be it evil or be it good, they do it and nobody can ever stop them, otherwise someone would have won by now, either evil or good. The best we can do is to take the side of good and do whatever possible and encourage others to join on our side. Its all a mind game. Nothing happens in the outside world. All that happens is inside our minds. The cycle of change is not a real cycle, it is a virtual one. It will stop only with the end of the world. You set something right and something else goes wrong. Rather, it changes, that is why the current processes do not work for that change and that is called "wrong"? Then we change the processes to make it "right", and by then something else gets outdated. If we could stop the time whenever we are happy, we would be happy forever. But, till now there is no technology which has been able to stop time. It keeps on running, and hence the things change. So, the ultimate solution would be to somehow stop time, which is not an easy task. Because the time has got the highest stamina than that of any living cell on this earth. It has been ticking since ages and will keep on doing that for ages. Is that also a mind game? What if we could stop the ticking of time in our mind? What if we stop the ticking of time in our mind at the moment we are happy? Will we stay happy forever after that? But, what is happiness and when is someone supposed to stop time? Are you not happy at present? Why can't you make yourself happy at your own will? Sure you can. If you can stop ticking of time in your mind (which is the hardest task I have ever encountered) why can't you be happy at will? All my such thoughts result in the final solution to all the problems i.e. mind control. By nature, we crave for something we don't have. If we can control our minds then everything will fall in place and we would be happy forever. At least that is what I think.