KAUN HAI YE LOG? KAHAN SE AATE HAI YE?


  

“Some say the world will end in fire;

some say in ice.”

Robert Frost


Can we, humans, ever be free from forming opinions about people and events around us - about anything and everything, whether they are happening right next to us or oceans afar, or whether they are about living or dead beings?

I don’t think, we are that evolved to be free from such a temptation… It seems, we get instinctively tuned into it. Yes, an opinion is something the human mind instinctively forms… Maybe, it must’ve come in us due to the ‘original sin’…

So, blame it on Adam and his wife, Eve… It’s all because of the sin they committed, the original sin – that irresistible temptation…

Sounds nice… We are born with this temptation called ‘opinions’…

But, then, I wonder: Despite a thousand opinions popping up inside our heads, can we be discreet when it comes to voicing them out – yes, loud in the open?

Mercifully, we can… We are bestowed with that freedom of choice… That, we needn’t be like wild animals when it comes to airing out – loudly, wildly, shamelessly – what we think are our valid opinions…



Just pick up a random post on social media… and go through the comments by random people… Feel the intensity, the love and the hate… feel the fire and the ice – just stand aside and read, without taking any sides... and you will be reminded of Arshad Warsi’s famous courtroom comment, which has become a popular meme:

“Kaun hai  ye log? Kahan se aate hai ye?”

So, the next time you come across a random social-media post, get in touch with the temptation within…

And comment… to become a part of ‘Kaun hai ye log? world’…  the ‘bheed’… the mindless mob… the greatest pastime of an empty mind…

Or, leave the random social-media post alone…

You and I need not participate in this Maha Kumb, you see…



“Opinions are the cheapest commodities in this world.” Well, I had heard it long before I saw this kumb-size dip – by a random crowd – in a random river…

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

Pic’s: Pixabay

Video: Gaur Gopal Das

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