Friday, January 15, 2010

Blasts of Social interaction


There are few things in life which come in the form of blasts. The first thing that one can think of is obviously the emotions, which come as a blast. Emotional blasts have been well documented and since I have not experienced it personally, I would not be wasting words over it. However the other thing which comes in the form of blast are social interactions. There are three major phases of it which at least I can foresee ,standing at this point of time, there might be more which I would experience as and when I grow older.
The first one and probably a very critical one is when one enters the school premise. Before that a child had interacted with just 5-20 set of humans (the number depends upon your close family size and size of your close neighbourhood). However these people would have always interacted with a child in a way which hardly the child could have deciphered or would have come out with the rational behind such behaviours. Suddenly they enter school and 20-30 similar kind of people (height, weight, build wise) come in front. Suddenly there is an overload of traits which he/she can understand, like-dislike and assign favourites and identify rivals and friends. You are probably mocked for the first time. There are other explosions as well but that could not be documented because by the time one learns how to do it, he would have been too old to remember what feeling he had in the first place.
The second explosion and strategically the most important ones are the one which have when you enter college. The explosion is even bigger if you happen to enter hostel. It is similar to entering the school for the first time. Suddenly you are out of your nest, in open to be tested by everyone who had bought with him different skill, each capable of providing a fatal blow. Some would have skills which would make you question your academic acumen, they'll make you feel ridiculously stupid as far as understanding of course material is concerned. There might be other people who would slaughter you with their sarcasm, day in and day out. They would have perfected their butchery to such an extent that one would hesitate before making their vocal muscles move, when in front of them. There would be another breed who would be mixture of both the mastery mentioned earlier. On seeing them, you completely loose faith that god created everyone with equality. You start absorbing the traits, understand your limitations and come out prepared thinking that I have seen all the possibilities and I am prepared to bang the world and take everyone head on. At this time comes the third explosion.
The third explosion is when you enter the job. If you happen to be from a college which hoards people who had been busy in most part of their school life, working out for some entrance exam and college life towards justifying their school efforts by bagging a success trophy in the form of a job, (the trophy might remain elusive ) this explosion might come as a bigger shock. Suddenly you find people whose experience would make you feel that you have wasted your life as there are people who have done the things which you could have dreamt of in your wildest imagination. Even the 50th ranked adventure story of their's, would be better than your best and by miles. For a moment you think that maybe I would be more successful in life than him but at the second moment, you quickly realise, who is living life and who is wasting it, chasing something which he himself doesn't know. You would realise that adrenaline rush is something which you had never felt. You realise that traveling across 7 states in a year is no big deal but if was done in a month, it is something which could be considered worth mentioning. Spending a night on pavements is something which everyone has done, but spending a night in an unknown village, somewhere in madhya pradesh is courageous. Suddenly your definitions of extreme adventure goes for a toss and you realise that you do not have courage to do what is courageous for the outside people and not for the people in the shell you had lived in.
I am presently in the third explosion phase and as and when I am meeting more people,I am realising that I have not done even a single thing which is worth mentioning in my entire life till date. And the worst part is I am at a point standing at which it is very difficult for one to switch gears..........

7 comments:

rds said...

well, interesting thought process.. and for the third phase of your explosion and maybe for more to come, its you who has to take a decision and do something worth mentioning. But first you need to know what, in your eyes, is "worth mentioning". Problem is it keeps changing. every person you meet, and you suddenly think 'oh! i've done nothing compared to him'.
So, its you who first has to decide and then take an action. But its just people like u and me don't want to come out of easy job life to do what we consider "worth mentioning".

Unknown said...

bhai, how were you slaughtered in your college time ... if that refers to monetary problems thats fine.. else not... second every one have got something adventurous to tell, thing is how good u r at narrating and making,twisting the facts to make it sound more interesting...

Uncommonness said...

nice observation...i fully agree..we are victims of this social blast and struggling to maintain our state of mind...

INFERNO said...

@rds: "worth mentioning" according to me is something, which could be classified as something where you had touched the extremism. Unfortunately I can't even related extemism to a single incidence of my life neither can I think of any thing which I could willingly do and could be classified as extremism.

@Sahil: By slaughtering I meant sarcasm (marna jisse bolte hain).I think you are one of those who were blessed with this skill. Although there is fun in being slaughtered in this way.

@Uncommoness: Victim won't be the right word to use as I believe it is a natural process.

rds said...

i didn't completely understand your point - do you mean "anything that you could think of willingly do is not extremism according to you".
If yes, again I would say make a list of the things that are extremist according to you and then try to fulfill them.
Another point, you should not do these things so that others could appreciate you. It is "you" who should be able to appreciate yourself.

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