Edits: When i wrote this, I wrote the spelling wrong. But today, when I look back, sacrifise as an heading makes more sense than sacrifice. This article focuses on the ritual killings of the dreams of the younger generation at the behest of ambitious insecured parents, on the ritual killing of a man's freedom on the behest of whimsical wishes of counterparts and other stakeholders.
The old article: It has been long yet again since i've written.. Today was just thinking about sacrifice and its importance in society.. how did the this topic came to my mind?? Just like that had been thinking a lot lately, wats rite, wats wrong, started analysing and here's the analysis.. a lot of us have grown up learning that sacrifices are important, and indeed they are.. We have grown listening to the stories of Rishi Dadhichi and Panna Dhay, both of whom are unparalleled examples of sacrifice in Indian history. Now what troubles me is the interpretation of sacrifice. Just imagine Rishi Dadhichi wud have sacrificed his life because his girlfriend wanted to comb her hair from the comb made from Rishi's bones. Wud the sacrifice have been worth it?? Would you even call it a sacrifice? lemme first put the definiton of sacrifice word to word from dictionary.com, it says "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim. " Now lets start analysing, Rishi dadhichi sacrifising his life fulfills the first part of the definiton, "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable" i.e. his life here. But now lets look at the second part of the difinition, "for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim." Does his girlfriend's desire to comb her hair from his bones qualify for a more pressing claim?? Now may be when in the first I said, we have grown up with the stories of Rishi Dadhichi and Panna Dhay, I was wrong, we have rather grown up with the stories of guy sacrifising his safety and risking his own life to fulfil some fancy whim of his gf. We have grown up with the stories where a guy or a gal sacrifices everything for some wishes of their parents, or gf or ne1. Now when I was young, I heard the story of Shravan Kumar, the great son who took his parents sacrifising everything on a pilgrimage. Now lets analyse that scenario. Shravan sacrificed his happiness, his comfort. First part fulfilled. His parents, both blind and very old and lived in times when pilgrimage meant a lot for every old age couple, got the satisfaction of going to the pilgrim and getting the most sorted after thing by them, Moksha. Also it being their last wish gets completed. So does the second part gets fulfilled, yes it does. Coming to present times, Mother and father wants their kid to be CA(:-), Doctor, Engineer and wat not and the kid sacrifices their own interest for their wishes. Analyse again, First part fulfilled, second, no not at all. You are not achieving something having a greater claim. And our parents wud gladly give the example of how Shravan sacrificed everything and u cant even become an engineer for us. Wat a parallel. The framework of sacrifice has been getting spoiled and it has taken a very crooked shape. This is not what sacrifice meant. Sacrifice is always for a more pressing claim, if it is not it is not a sacrifice rather its a foolishness or if I explain in finance, its a Deadweight loss. Can go on writing about it but have to go and have food. Last I'll just quote a few lines from one of my favourite songs, a lil out of place but cud fit in with a lil more extrapolation on the same topic.
kaha chala aye mere jogi, jeewan se tu bhaag ke
kisi ek dil ke karan, yun sari duniya tyaag ke
chhod de sari duniya kisi ke liye
yeh munaasib nahin aadmi ke liye
pyaar se bhi zaroori kayi kam hain
pyaar sab kuchh nahin zindagi ke liye
chand milta nahin sabko sansaar mein
hai diya hi bahut roshni ke liye
ek duniya ujad hi gayi hai to kya
doosra tum jahan kyun basaate nahin
The old article: It has been long yet again since i've written.. Today was just thinking about sacrifice and its importance in society.. how did the this topic came to my mind?? Just like that had been thinking a lot lately, wats rite, wats wrong, started analysing and here's the analysis.. a lot of us have grown up learning that sacrifices are important, and indeed they are.. We have grown listening to the stories of Rishi Dadhichi and Panna Dhay, both of whom are unparalleled examples of sacrifice in Indian history. Now what troubles me is the interpretation of sacrifice. Just imagine Rishi Dadhichi wud have sacrificed his life because his girlfriend wanted to comb her hair from the comb made from Rishi's bones. Wud the sacrifice have been worth it?? Would you even call it a sacrifice? lemme first put the definiton of sacrifice word to word from dictionary.com, it says "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim. " Now lets start analysing, Rishi dadhichi sacrifising his life fulfills the first part of the definiton, "the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable" i.e. his life here. But now lets look at the second part of the difinition, "for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim." Does his girlfriend's desire to comb her hair from his bones qualify for a more pressing claim?? Now may be when in the first I said, we have grown up with the stories of Rishi Dadhichi and Panna Dhay, I was wrong, we have rather grown up with the stories of guy sacrifising his safety and risking his own life to fulfil some fancy whim of his gf. We have grown up with the stories where a guy or a gal sacrifices everything for some wishes of their parents, or gf or ne1. Now when I was young, I heard the story of Shravan Kumar, the great son who took his parents sacrifising everything on a pilgrimage. Now lets analyse that scenario. Shravan sacrificed his happiness, his comfort. First part fulfilled. His parents, both blind and very old and lived in times when pilgrimage meant a lot for every old age couple, got the satisfaction of going to the pilgrim and getting the most sorted after thing by them, Moksha. Also it being their last wish gets completed. So does the second part gets fulfilled, yes it does. Coming to present times, Mother and father wants their kid to be CA(:-), Doctor, Engineer and wat not and the kid sacrifices their own interest for their wishes. Analyse again, First part fulfilled, second, no not at all. You are not achieving something having a greater claim. And our parents wud gladly give the example of how Shravan sacrificed everything and u cant even become an engineer for us. Wat a parallel. The framework of sacrifice has been getting spoiled and it has taken a very crooked shape. This is not what sacrifice meant. Sacrifice is always for a more pressing claim, if it is not it is not a sacrifice rather its a foolishness or if I explain in finance, its a Deadweight loss. Can go on writing about it but have to go and have food. Last I'll just quote a few lines from one of my favourite songs, a lil out of place but cud fit in with a lil more extrapolation on the same topic.
kaha chala aye mere jogi, jeewan se tu bhaag ke
kisi ek dil ke karan, yun sari duniya tyaag ke
chhod de sari duniya kisi ke liye
yeh munaasib nahin aadmi ke liye
pyaar se bhi zaroori kayi kam hain
pyaar sab kuchh nahin zindagi ke liye
chand milta nahin sabko sansaar mein
hai diya hi bahut roshni ke liye
ek duniya ujad hi gayi hai to kya
doosra tum jahan kyun basaate nahin
