Illusion:(Noun)
1.An erroneous mental representation
2.the action of deceiving
3.the state or fact of being intellectually deceived or misled
4.something that deceives or misleads intellectually
5.perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature
Well well well.. illusion seems to be something bad and evil and a must-avoid-thingy.
infact the pejorative nature of the word seems intuitively perceivable.
NO.
My purpose here in this post is to consecrate that word.
Lets start.shall we?
(w)(h)ole
The fact that the blog is basically "read" and not heard, has incapacitated me from fully perpetuating the confusion i actually wanted to cause.
Please imagine that u actually heard the word.(am sorry if u r unable to imagine..but i suggest u take a break from watever job or study that you are doing , go for a vacation with your family and read some comics)so now that you have imagined hearing the word, I expect you to get confused regarding what you just heard..was it "hole" or was it "whole" (am sorry again if you are unable to get confused..but i suggest you read a book or two from the shelves of "self improvement" or "philosophy" category from a book store)
so now that u have sufficiently imagined and confused, i shall take a chance and come to my point.
The first thing i want to stress is the point of confusion. Not just in this word.Lets put aside for a moment, that among the two ways of interpreting (again putting aside the 3rd way and the other ways of increasing orders) one way seems optimistic and the other pessimistic. Oh this is just to purposefully coincide with the cliched and well known concept of duality, of yin and yang, of black and white. As long we dont have "the" confusion, we are pretty much clear on what we perceive, which pretty much solves our side of the issue, for being on the yin or yang side of it is just actually the interpretation of it, the post mortem, and not the cause or root or reason.
The problem is with the confusion.
Where are we actually if we get a doubt regarding what we just saw or heard or experienced?
are we black or white when we get a doubt whether it was hole or whole?
We are in effect preventing ourselves from placing us.
No.thats not what we are doing. We do place ourselves but then do the postmortem ourselves and then we go back on our stance, claiming confusion.
The reasons of this can be multifarious and multipronged.(constipation might be one
too..we never know...what with chaos and butterfly effect and all..)
But the main point i want to make is, we are indeed aware of that fact,that we sumtimes hide things from ourselves. And the not-so-main point here is that we do that probably only when what we experienced clashes with our in built-stubborn-framework that combines our idea of the world at large and our idea about ourselves(ok..that was boring...my apologies...note here that i am not contrite about it..am merely being diplomatic)
So when we vehemently denounce illusions and uphold accepting the elusive "reality", we are, ahem, being hypocrites.
infact, we NEED illusions.
Everytime i take my bike out through the gates,
I have an illusion that accidents happen to others and not to me.
I have an illusion that as long as i drive carefully, i am safe.
I have an illusion that people(girls) dont really expect(like) all young guys to drive fast and sexy.
I have an illusion that they way i drive is not really a factor by which i can impress somebody.
I have an illusion that driving is a matter of ethics and self discipline and other related stuff
I have an illusion that all the drivers acknowledge the fact that any of their stunts, that can lead to a succesful suicide can also lead to a successful murder.
Just a simple act of driving a bike carries behind it so many illusions.
Infact i am sure that if we start counting the number of illusions that we have..
oh..ok..sorry for the generalisation...
Infact i am sure that if I start counting the number of illusions that I have it would need another illusion to hide that.
just so this post doesnt become too cliched i am not going to enumerate the examples of illusions that we(..oh..sorry again...)i have in almost every aspect of living the 21st century life ranging from career to relationships to cell phone battery life.
Infact we get sad or morose or lachrymose or disappointed (or snappy or sarcastic or reticent too) when we get "dis-illusioned"....i think a more technical word would be "cognitive dissonance"
and i have a suspicion that the time we take to come back is actually the time we take to either rebuild the same illusion again or conjure a new illusion.
am sure the dogs and pups, wen talking among themselves would hv so much fun talking and wondering about us...
In a nutshell, illusions are our shield, our immune system.
illusions? yeah..bring them on..i love them.
Illusions help us in retaining our sanity, paradoxically, by allowing a little insanity.
1.An erroneous mental representation
2.the action of deceiving
3.the state or fact of being intellectually deceived or misled
4.something that deceives or misleads intellectually
5.perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature
Well well well.. illusion seems to be something bad and evil and a must-avoid-thingy.
infact the pejorative nature of the word seems intuitively perceivable.
NO.
My purpose here in this post is to consecrate that word.
Lets start.shall we?
(w)(h)ole
The fact that the blog is basically "read" and not heard, has incapacitated me from fully perpetuating the confusion i actually wanted to cause.
Please imagine that u actually heard the word.(am sorry if u r unable to imagine..but i suggest u take a break from watever job or study that you are doing , go for a vacation with your family and read some comics)so now that you have imagined hearing the word, I expect you to get confused regarding what you just heard..was it "hole" or was it "whole" (am sorry again if you are unable to get confused..but i suggest you read a book or two from the shelves of "self improvement" or "philosophy" category from a book store)
so now that u have sufficiently imagined and confused, i shall take a chance and come to my point.
The first thing i want to stress is the point of confusion. Not just in this word.Lets put aside for a moment, that among the two ways of interpreting (again putting aside the 3rd way and the other ways of increasing orders) one way seems optimistic and the other pessimistic. Oh this is just to purposefully coincide with the cliched and well known concept of duality, of yin and yang, of black and white. As long we dont have "the" confusion, we are pretty much clear on what we perceive, which pretty much solves our side of the issue, for being on the yin or yang side of it is just actually the interpretation of it, the post mortem, and not the cause or root or reason.
The problem is with the confusion.
Where are we actually if we get a doubt regarding what we just saw or heard or experienced?
are we black or white when we get a doubt whether it was hole or whole?
We are in effect preventing ourselves from placing us.
No.thats not what we are doing. We do place ourselves but then do the postmortem ourselves and then we go back on our stance, claiming confusion.
The reasons of this can be multifarious and multipronged.(constipation might be one
too..we never know...what with chaos and butterfly effect and all..)
But the main point i want to make is, we are indeed aware of that fact,that we sumtimes hide things from ourselves. And the not-so-main point here is that we do that probably only when what we experienced clashes with our in built-stubborn-framework that combines our idea of the world at large and our idea about ourselves(ok..that was boring...my apologies...note here that i am not contrite about it..am merely being diplomatic)
So when we vehemently denounce illusions and uphold accepting the elusive "reality", we are, ahem, being hypocrites.
infact, we NEED illusions.
Everytime i take my bike out through the gates,
I have an illusion that accidents happen to others and not to me.
I have an illusion that as long as i drive carefully, i am safe.
I have an illusion that people(girls) dont really expect(like) all young guys to drive fast and sexy.
I have an illusion that they way i drive is not really a factor by which i can impress somebody.
I have an illusion that driving is a matter of ethics and self discipline and other related stuff
I have an illusion that all the drivers acknowledge the fact that any of their stunts, that can lead to a succesful suicide can also lead to a successful murder.
Just a simple act of driving a bike carries behind it so many illusions.
Infact i am sure that if we start counting the number of illusions that we have..
oh..ok..sorry for the generalisation...
Infact i am sure that if I start counting the number of illusions that I have it would need another illusion to hide that.
just so this post doesnt become too cliched i am not going to enumerate the examples of illusions that we(..oh..sorry again...)i have in almost every aspect of living the 21st century life ranging from career to relationships to cell phone battery life.
Infact we get sad or morose or lachrymose or disappointed (or snappy or sarcastic or reticent too) when we get "dis-illusioned"....i think a more technical word would be "cognitive dissonance"
and i have a suspicion that the time we take to come back is actually the time we take to either rebuild the same illusion again or conjure a new illusion.
am sure the dogs and pups, wen talking among themselves would hv so much fun talking and wondering about us...
In a nutshell, illusions are our shield, our immune system.
illusions? yeah..bring them on..i love them.
Illusions help us in retaining our sanity, paradoxically, by allowing a little insanity.
6 comments:
hmm..makes sense...!! and ur way of driving definitely shows or rather proves ethics that u follow.
gud one this is...!
Illustrated Illusion!! :)
Good one.. Keep blog'n
hey da...first time reading ur blog...when I was reading this blog the first person I remembered was our very old DJ thatha.. :)...nice one da..really makes a lot of sense....
Hey Sankar!
Late aa vandittinglaa? Aaana Latest aa eldittingle ;-)
Hehehe...I had to scroll up to confirm that the post was not about Confusion and indeed about illusion...In short...to speak your speak, I was under the temporary illusion that your post was actually about confusion...Simultaneously I was in a state of confusion reading about illusion ;-)
Too good dude! "Simply" awesome actually!
is this to justify your driving skills or rather lack of it hehe? let me blow a few things up - on the road fast sexy drivers make a lot of brownie points :D
Machan, you neeed to play Grand Theft Auto... Then all those illusions about driving will fly away into the sky...
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