The most important faculty
of a man is his imaginative faculty. As a child it is at its best but decays as
he grows up. During his formative years the child tends to question the absence
of anything that he can imagine but does not find around him. But, when he grows
up, two vital changes take place- one, his power of imagination takes a back
seat & secondly, he becomes skeptic even about things that he sees around
himself. He questions every new idea that is mooted to solve any old problem
and downplays anything that seems out of the box.
The root cause of all the
trouble is not the man but men- men around him. Man is not a skeptic by birth.
But every time he floats a new idea it is taken as a breach of the pattern
& thus not accepted by people. But he keeps imagining his way into the
unknown. And the world keeps throwing its tantrums, rejecting the idea on one
pretext or another. By and by, he starts thinking that the world is all fine;
he is an aberration. And this is the beginning of the end of his imaginative
prowess.
The all important question
is how some gifted souls manage to counter the onslaught of skeptics and refuse
to get adjusted to the easy way of thinking ‘simple & straight.’ The answer
is that they consider themselves to be gifted & not an ordinary soul &
they remain so till the end.
The early sign of a man
getting into the trap of ‘easy & plain’ thinking is that he moves from ‘why
not’ mode to ‘why’ mode. Initially, he finds it difficult to adjust to the newly-found world
of skeptics but once he gets there he finds it very comforting & snuggles
up to it for whole life to lead a limited existence. So, the secret to a blessed & meaningful life is to question what is not around & enjoy what is present. Then only, we will truly be living in the present & preparing for the future.
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