Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The guilty generation

  • Punishing yourself for no apparent reason.
  • Living a loser's life by letting go what could be yours if you had focussed and worked towards it,
  • Wanting to have no interest in people, work and the things around you...

In other words,

  • Penance,
  • Sacrifice,
  • Denial of worldly pleasures..

Sometimes we are a confused lot. What should ideally be considered as a psychiatric condition that should be cured is considered as righteousness and spirituality. If a person loses interest in everything around him, inflicts pain on himself, runs away from happiness like its a plague, shouldnt we take him to a doctor and get his head examined? Much worse, what if he starts preaching these things to other people and calls it religion?

Should we acknowledge and agree that we should feel guilty for happiness or should we just tell him to shut up and get lost?

7 comments:

S Siva said...

Embrace the good, the bad ones are non existent

Alin said...

well, thats what we try to do, but sometimes we are forced to acknowledge the bad too!

kris said...

Life goes up and down,even you will find your nature changing from highly introvert to highly extrovert.
'We' todays youth have general problem of time-mismanagement, which is root cause of all the other problems.

You have a nice blog. :)

Alin said...

thanks Abhishek

vvabe said...

If in helping you when you are really in need, I suffer joyfully the little pain that it might cause me, what would you call me?

Alin said...

I re-read the entry now. in this post, i am not against sacrifice in general, if as an individual someone wants to sacrifice his life for nothing, its actually his choice. my complaint is against those who go on preaching and try to scare hapless ppl to feel guilty for no reason in the name of religion, god etc

Alin said...

btw, if you do what you said, i would call u my friend! :D

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