Fuzzy Reflections

Albert Einstein once said: “Everybody’s a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”. So may I present to you the modern education system; a system which is unique in its kind, peculiar, judgmental yet adopted. Now this system not only rates the fish by its climbing skills but it also makes the fish climb down and do a 10 mile run. It labels the fish with this rating which is least related to the skills it actually processes and leaves this fish to survive at mercy of society for rest of its life. This process of rating an individual is known as ‘Examination’. Whenever we hear words like examination or grades an idea spontaneously sparks to our minds that this will be related to level of intelligence or rating of intellect of a specific individual. These sudden thoughts have been imparted to our minds by the generic response of our societies where we grew up. However the realities lie ...

Life is series of choices. The one you made became your past; the one you are making indicates your present and the ones yet to be made will define your future. In this process emotions act as catalyst which evaluates the true essence of man’s nature. Intrinsically, man always chooses comfort. He thinks that comfort brings happiness and while comforting his life to maximum, man evolved something unique, technology. Now, technology made him feel superior, special and in a sense god-powered. Humanity was spoiled. Huge skyscrapers, machines, satellites, Nuclear technology, he began thinking that he could control everything from atomic to cosmic level. Then came a reminder from nature, this time in name of ‘Corona’, a tiny particle which was capable of eradicating the enormous economy of china within days and reminding the true worth of man. So begins the game of life, everyone for himself. The social animal became less social physically. Since the virus spread by physical con...