Over-expensive fuel for life

Perhaps life in this era is impossible without fossil fuels or we deliberately have made it so. Whatever the matter, this scenario is awful. To run the wheel of life, we are forced to consume fuels. We are forced to consume be it Rs. 100 per litter, Rs.
150 per litter or even Rs. 200 per litter. We can cut down our dining table but cannot do away without fuels. How bullshit this is!

The nature has created us as free human beings, but we have got entrapped in the tangled web of our desires—the desires to lead comfortable lives. Are we leading comfortable lives? Not at all. We can never lead even as long as we keep prostrating before
our longings. So what is the use of all what we are doing?

Did the man of Stone Age have vehicles to travel and industries to produce commodities? Of course, he did not have. He had nothing of what we have, but one thing he had in abundance was happiness and tranquillity. We have everything but the peace of mind
is missing. We are worried about getting our vehicle tanks filled with fuel, we are worried about the rising prices of the petroleum products and we suffer a lot while waiting for our turns in long queues outside the filling stations. What is all this? Just
suffering.

Simpler is better. How beautiful this proverb is! We can have profuse leisure and pleasure if we opt to lead simple lives. We can bank on bicycles instead of vehicles, we can eat bread instead of burger, we can write letters instead of phone calls, we can
perform Nikhas instead of grand marriage ceremonies and we can sleep in the shadow of a cool tree instead of air-conditioned rooms. But, believe me, we cannot do all this. Why? Because we have egos, we have self-esteems and we have social statuses. How nonsense
this stuff is!

How silly it seems that we are denying to live for the sake of others. Our egos are dearer to us than our egos. Unless we learn to sacrifice our egos, the fuel prices will keep hiking and we shall keep suffering. There is no other way out.

I am sure that most of the readers of this article will consider me as mad and orthodox. But what I have said is quite a complete reality. It will remain so whether we accept or not.

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Posted by Sharjeel Ahmad on Feb 1 2012. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry