Reflections

Plenty of bad news around these days. The 'credit crunch', the earthquake, the cyclone, global warming, teenagers wielding knives, political upheaval, lack of respect for elders, incurable illnesses. Of course one could add many more woes.
Is this situation unique? Perhaps not. History has witnessed much worse. So do we not need to despair? Will a solution emerge? Or should we hope that when the time is ripe, a figurehead will be born and rid the world of its evils. There will probably be an incarnation of Shree Krishna who will be the saviour of the righteousness.

It has been a dark ,windy and wet afternoon. The garden looks gloomy and there is a sense of depression in the air. People have been used to this kind of soul destroying climate for centuries here in the west. Yet every year when the air turns cold and the sunlight hours disappear fast, people remark that the weather is horrible. They long to go away to far away places in the sun and the warmth. Why hasn't the human body adapted to these changing seasons? Why do we still describe the temperatures as 'freezing'? Are we meant to be creatures of warm places. If that were so, why did human population settle in these cold countries?

Things ain't what they used to be!! We all say this from time to time and we expect others to agree with us. Perhaps they do!

But why should things be what they used to be. Everything changes every moment. We are one second older than we were a second ago! One second ago is history. One second from now will be future. The earth has moved many miles since you started reading this. So, if change is inevitable, why do we complain? Why do we expect things to be as they were?

It is true that everything changes and it is also true that we resent change.