Mood Swings

Ever wondered, why do we human beings have so many mood swings? One moment one is ecstatic the next you feel totally out of tune with the happenings of the world. Ever thought how much better we human beings would have been if we were devoid of this mental faculty of joy and sorrow? I guess at some point of time all of us have pondered about this relatively inane question. But most of the times, we would either shrug it off as something not worth bothering, or we go by the old adage that it’s sorrow which makes joy extraordinary.

It is the adrenalin rush on big occasions something that pushes one to stretch more that his or her capabilities, but it is the same adrenalin which can have you on the brink of disaster when you want it the least. So will I trade off my adrenalin to a more measured mechanical lifestyle where everything happens in measured quantities?

Someone said that happiness is what lies within you, but yet we seek for it in all the worldly pleasures, and the more we have them the more redundant our previous possessions become. I remember when I first bought a mobile phone, I thought it was a luxury, today less than one and a half years down the line the same phone appears not only basic but redundant and pre-historic.

It’s not the phone that I am talking about, it is the shortening span for everything, we live in the world of fast foods, fast cars, short attention spans, short product life cycles (had to put this, thanks to my educational background), frequent job switch and a perennial itch to prove to everyone around you, that “I am made of a different mettle”. Yet the more different we strive to be, more similar we become in attitudes. The more educated we get, lesser becomes our tolerance for diversity and adversity.

An educated person always wants to play safe, becomes risk averse to the extent that he would not want to lose his one months salary to explore the potential of earnings which can be multi-fold his present salary. This is where we need to have a re-look at our education system. But then I am digressing from the individual perspective to criticizing the education system.

How in this world where everything is ‘grown’ on shops, does one correlate to the nature? It is not only the existence of nature outside, but also one’s own nature that one is getting estranged with. What should one do, swim against the tide and go back to his roots, or should he flow with the tide to gain momentum. One strengthens the muscles, the other gets the momentum. Unfortunately you can’t have both.

It is decisions like these, which not only shape the future but also defines one’s character. Hope most of us have the wisdom to take the right choice, and more importantly because of right reasons, and not because of the fear of the other.