I Object!

Great people have been giving thoughts, expressing their ideas and telling the world about their opinion of things around them. Opinions of a world as they see it to be, or as they would want it to be. Have we ever asked ourselves for our opinion. Is it always the case that they are right and we are, I won't say wrong, but not correct? I don't think so. We all have our own ideologies and thoughts. Thoughts that define who we are. They may be wrong, they may be right but they are a result of your understanding of things around you. Maybe leaving behind wrong ones is good, but compromising on right ones for no reason and conforming to the pre-existing ones is losing your identity. This is where most people fear to say "I Object!".

People have always been giving reasons for bending rules. Reasons to vindicate their being/doing wrong. They all overlook a plain simple truth. What is right, is right. What is wrong, is wrong. There's no way you can justify the wrong you see in being right and there are no grounds on which you can justify what's right in being wrong. The world consists of two types of people. One who knows what is right and wrong. The other who also knows what is right and wrong. The difference is that one of them stands up for what they believe is right while the other don't. And doing that does not require Herculean strength. The important thing in life is not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong. Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.

There's a huge difference between you thinking that you are right and in you actually being right. And how to know what is right? Well, its a really really complex thing to do. As long as I am right and you are wrong, "I Object"...

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What do you see?

We all have at some point in our life, tossed a coin to make a decision and observed the end result, heads or tails. But how many of us paid attention to the flight? The struggle of one side of the coin with the another....We often see through our eyes ignoring the less prominent aspect, merely realizing the presence and importance of the flip side.

Pick up a pencil and a paper, and draw a circle. What do you see? A circle or a line chasing itself? The tiny space enclosed within the boundary or the infinite space the boundary couldn't contain. Consider the classic example: Given a glass half full of water what do you see? You look at it from a brighter perspective and a broader horizon, to say that it is half full...or from a negative point of view to say that it is half empty. You look it from a deeper perspective and ask yourself what's the difference, or be totally ridiculed and ask how should that make a difference to you? Take another drawing exercise. Plot r(θ)=2sin4(θ). What do you see? Just another polar curve looking like a flower, or a rose instead, if you colour it? "Simple". What do you see? Is it as simple as it looks or you see as (S)+i(mple) to realize that though it is simple, it has a'mple' of ingrained complexity! (Recall: Complex numbers = a+ib)

You see sand castles on the shoreline, or footsteps in the sand. What do you see? You ask yourself who made these or you ask yourself how long will it be before they are gone? Huge walls. What do you see? The impenetrable boundaries or the reason for their existence. What is it they are safeguarding? Take a glass bowl, fill it with water, put some weeds and buy a goldfish to keep in the bowl. What do you see? You look at the setup and admire yourself for creating an aquarium and feel happy, or feel the pain of lonely life you chose for the fish, away from other fishes, away from its natural habitat?

Sometimes life puts you in situations you might need to think differently and see both sides of the coin. What to choose and what not to choose, what to do and what not to do, what is right and what is wrong, depends on only one thing....What do you see...


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What is music?

A thought comes to my mind...or I should say a question. What is music? Is it the sound of random vibrations coming out of a person or object? If yes, then what about the chirping of birds and thunderstorms? Is it the smooth flow of miscellaneous tones? Then what about the soothing sound of a flowing river? Is it the progressions on Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian or Locrian? Then what about the soulful voice of a singer? Is it something you like? Something that soothes your mind? Then what about thrash? Ain't that music? Is it something that just enters your heart through your ears? What about wishes, criticisms and random talks? Its not good. Its not bad. Its definitely not something you like. Not something that you hate. Not something you appreciate. Not something you despise. So what is music?

Music, is a companion for your mood. Its not just noises coming out of a body or object. Its the phenomenon perceived by your senses. A long silence is sometimes more melodic than a musical note. Raindrops are more "in harmony" than a choir. The rustling of leaves and the shriek of the wind is more mysterious, maybe terrifying, than a dark passage of music. The sound of waves lashing the shore is more soothing than a soulful song. Even the most random noises can be more like music to someone. It all depends on the mood. Thoughts are a free-flowing river. Music can either be the land on the side that directs the flow or the land in between that perturbs it. Depends on you.

Music is not just chords, progressions coming out of instruments that sounds in tune, based on a fixed theory of scales, following a beat pattern, complimented by a voice. Its something deeper than that. Something more abstract. And that something is hard to describe.... A purely subjective experience! "Music, is a visible thing. Close your eyes. Then you will see." Discover it for yourself.

To the reader: All objections pertain to the question "What is NOT music" and not "What is music?". I hope you'll understand the difference.

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The beginning.

Finally there comes a time in my life when I decide to create a blog, and mark my presence in the virtual world, which I always despised, still do, and will always stick to that. There's no point in creating an identity that is imperceptible. I'd rather prefer to exist in the real world, which no doubt is far more beautiful than this fleeting and illusory existence.

So yes, there won't be any posts like "I woke up today and found that I missed the class", but instead there would be ones like "I woke up today and realized I had been sleeping for years". And no doubt its gonna be weird! Eternal writings, which I had written earlier or will write will be posted, in a way that's natural for me, free from all the repulsive literary ornamentation. This is an attempt to measure unfathomable depths of thoughts. An attempt to express the darkest of winters, see the mildness of spring, feel the cool autumn breeze and touch the inevitable summer. An attempt to live the change of seasons....

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