The Thinking Atom

Just Came across this beautiful poem and thought of keeping it with me for ever and sharing it with all lucky visitors.........


I am a puny part of the great whole.
Yes;but all animals condemned to live,
All sentient things, born by the same stern law,
Suffer like me, and like me also die.
The vulture fastens on his timid prey,
And stabs with bloody beak the quivering limbs;
All's well , it seems, for it. But in a while
An Eagle tears the vulture into shreds;
The eagle is transfixed by the shaft of man;
The man, prone in the dust of battlefields,
Mingling his blood with dying fellow men,
Becomes in turn the food of ravenous birds.
Thus the whole world in every member groans,
All born for torment and for Mutualdeath.
And o'er this ghastly chaos you would say
The ills of each make up the good of all!
What blessedness! and as with quaking voice,
Mortal and pitiful ye cry, "All's well,"
The universe belies you, and your heart
Refutes a hundred times your mind's conceit.......
What is the verdict of the vastest mind?
Silence: the book of fate is closed to us.
Man is a stranger to his own research;
He knows not whence he comes, nor whither goes.
Tormented atoms in a bed of mud,
Devoured by death, a mockery of Fate;
But thinking atoms, whose far-seeing eyes,
Guided by thought, have measured the faint stars.
Our being mingles with the infinite;
Ourselves we never see, or come to know.
This world, this theatre of pride and wrong,
Swarms with sick fools who talk of happiness......

Once did I sing, in less lugubrious tone,
the sunny ways of pleasure's general rule;
The times have changed, and, taught by growing age,
And sharing of frailty of mankind,
Seeking a light amid the deepening gloom,
I can but suffer, and will not repine.

VOLTAIRE..

Fear

Fear is the most tricky of all human emotions. It is the least understood and perhaps the most felt feeling. Yet we know so little about fear. But I guess thats what fear is all about..........being unknown.

Well on closure scrutiny of our little civilisation we will find that how important fear is. Fear is the underlying layer on which our civilisation has been standing and basking in glory. Because without fear there would be no bravery and without bravery their would be no legends, without legends there would be no heroes and without heroes their would be no ideals, and without ideals there would have been no civilasation possible.

See thats how important fear is to us...... yet we somehow haven't seen it.

Being afraid is natural..... in fact it is necessary for survival......... for without fear we would all be reckless species jumping off the cliffs without prior thought. Now that i have spoken of thought....it is merely out of thought process that we find this monster called Fear. Thought leads to calculations....& risk assessments and which finally makes us decide if we are OK in doing a particular thing or not.
So from this logic I can safely say that fear is a direct result of a conscious mind ....... and more capable the mind is the more afraid it shall tend to be.
SO this makes us the most scared species on the face of earth...... doesn't it.
And this is clearly visible in current trends and social behaviour. We are so afraid of what we done to our planet that we are afraid to come to terms with it..... and still arguing over what/who was the cause instead of coming to terms with our mistakes and making amends. This is precisely because we are afraid ....... and we are afraid because we do not know a way out of this mess..... we are uncertain....... and so uncertain that we are hoping that end shall come swiftly.....and it shall be such an end that we are left with nothing but our minds to figure out something for future. This is visible in our modern art..... our movies. Every year at least one movie is being released focusing completely on the upcoming Armageddon....... a complete annhilation of human kind and human ways. But I guess that it is just a wishful thinking. For the end shall not be swift... it shall be slow....... it shall be painful.... and we will have nowhere to go.....but suffer here alone. The question we are facing is not weather earth shall remain hospitable or not......but rather shall we survive such a cleansing process.... for cockroaches shall outlive us for sure...
The makers of Matrix might have imagined this place like a software which can be restarted...... but sadly the architect of this real world hasn't provided restart button...... their is only a shutdown........ and complete darknes.........
Afraid are u?..................... :).......