Illusive way
Holding as the status of a citizen, every person apparently seems to enjoy his or her life with a liberty or at least he or she thinks so. But have you ever scrutinized the fact minutely, how much free or independent life you are being granted or permitted to live? Just have a retrospection of your life! It emerges, life is not passing in the way, we suppose we are living. All is an illusion. Conceptually, we live our life under compulsions, and if we deny this element of compulsion, it comes up that we are living a life almost stuffed with some compromises.
In this context, I am citing an example, that is being followed generation after generations. May this paradigm have multiple prototypes. Up to an age limit, we pass our life under the aegis and command of our parents. Since they are our parents and in banal sense purveyor as well who provides us all facilities. This make us surrender happily to that controlling authority named as parents or guardian. But, the another facet of this control we come to realize on attaining the age of sagacity. It sounds to us that as holding the parental status, they too foster some dreams which they wish to come true through us. They had had some personal ambitions in their past life which they desired to attain but could not.
Take this paradigm in this way. Being a student, you have got an inclination to make a carrier in “commerce or economics” side. Here your parents, despite your reluctance for science faculty force you to further your study in science faculty. Still you are green in life and they paint a lucrative picture of your coming future as a doctor, scientist or a profound professor of that field. Basically, you have had no inclination for that subject but you succumbed to this siren call embodied with lucrative prospects. The day comes, you find neither you are a doctor or scientist nor a professor. Now under compulsion running a small grocery shop near your home to earn the bread and butter of your family. And the dismal side of the picture is that your parents too had left this world leaving you behind alone burdened with so many obligations. The harsh reality of life is, your student life under compulsion were forced to make some compromises by your parents.
Social compulsion
The same happens with a man regard his wedding tie. He is in love with some one else, but forced to marry with another girl by posing a scenario of society riddled with caste system before him. Again the day comes when he realizes, had he got wed-locked with his most liked girl, he would have been living a soothing life. But under compulsion he was forced to make compromise on the issue of marriage. Like wise you plan to construct a house in a location that suits you best. But your better half, children force you to give up your choice of the location. Not only this, you had some architectural plan to build the house but your family members again force you to change that. What all this is?
You on every major step of life being subjected to compromises. You ever took your self as a free citizen, free to do whatever you wish, but did you enjoy that status? Further, being a citizen you foster and follow a political ideology with a deep affinity with some political party. But, whole through life you find, never that political party succeeded to win the election with a majority to form the government . Now you are forced to live a life with the ideology of a ruling political party with her own policies and governance you ever opposed. You never had had an option of liking, despite you are bound to live your life as a citizen. It’s a life full of compulsions and compromises. It may happen with any one, in any form.
Here again you are one who proclaims himself as a non-political one, have not aligned to any political party or ideology as such. You are not inclined to get muddled with any political mud slinging. By merely proclaiming yourself as a non-political agent does not help you grant a non-political status. You may be ‘politically not active” only but “passively political” you are and can’t eschew from the political agenda. Politics effects your every aspect of life, your way of living. In the sense, it’s the politics that decides the price control of daily commodities, amenities provided by the State rather so many things essential to live a life. You find your self again under compulsion and forced to make the compromises.
No uninterrupted journey
We live our entire life through such kind of compromises. These compromises and compulsion as a factor work upon even after our demise. After our death, at which place we shall be created or buried, it too is decided by others. After our departure from this banal world, whether we shall be remembered or not, this too counts on the action of other people. Despite of this, if we think that we are a ‘free creature’, then how much? It has got some measuring standards. “You are free partially only.” If you are planning to travel some spot, it’s up to your choice to go through a public transport device or your private vehicle. You can fix that only. Even, when you walk on the road, on which side you will tread on, that, too is already fixed by laws. And this law of walking on the road too has been drafted by others as well.
The mere truth is, living a life of compromises under compulsion is our destiny. We subconsciously become a part and parcel of that ecosystem. In fact we find that comfortable and the same comfortable zone we opt to take as our freedom. Penned by — Vinay Pharasi……
