On paid vacation, doing time, behind the bars , familiar expressions right ??. Expressions used to bring out the fact that some one is locked and is deprived of his freedom as he misused it, posed a threat to our Civilized, Politicized society. An expression that brings in images of tall men, with scars all over their face, images of unclean toilets, dark pathways, images of fights over food served in barely clean vessels. Disgusting, disturbing images aren’t they. I get to see these at times, though in a different context, images with well dressed men chained to laptops, to their loan accounts and to the commitments they took up expecting those to make life better.
Not a pleasant seen, I know, never a pleasant scene.Being locked up is no big deal, the only point being the fact that your life conditions deteriorate entirely. Instead of the fluffy silk bed, you’d find a torn mat with rats licking your legs. Breakfast at McDonald's will be replaced by Mr. Donald’s, who is tenured on chopping up women after raping them !!!!!. Hey, hey , hey what’s the point, Let’s get to the point.
Technically how many of us are free. Being Jailed or locked up in a prison, isn’t it just a physical representation of the state we are in. Let’s answer a set of simple Questions : How many of us could actually spend their entire months salary on ourselves,Just for a month. Yes I am talking about the salary day, how many of us would dare to move ahead of a Pizza hut or a night club. Let’s say at work, how many of us could actually change things around, being in the most renowned acceptable, employee friendly work setup’s how many of us could dare to ask a Why ???.
Aren’t we working for the Banks that lend us money for at least 15 days a month. Then another 10 days for the school fee, food and a negligible two to three days for the stuff that we call life. Do we have Jailers around us, physically no, but emotionally hundreds of them, Jailers who push Ideas on us, who trample our Ideas, worst scenarios who borrow our’s and do the dance. Manager’s this is nothing against you, though endangered there is a genre of angels amongst you, we acknowledge. Let’s check out the fights in our corporate jungle, don’t we fight because of much sillier reasons than in an actual Jail, for reasons as simple as “he did not smile at me”, “how dare could he talk to me like that” etc. Have we turned out to be a gunny bag of ego’s being punched around just to get more swollen.
Now do we have a parole system, where in we get breaks??. Yes we all do, we rush to a favorite spot and feel insecure about the advances @ work. At the pinnacle of an intense romantic act, we dial a colleagues number and ask “What’s up”, when the conversation ends, your turned on partner is not just "turned off", to a certain extend pissed off. We keep track of meager things and that keeps us chained, Jailed in a frame of mind. A frame that’s as big as a laptop screen or the default size of a Microsoft Exchange mailbox or to the max the size of a cubicle or for the Exceptionally ambitious and arrogant a Cabin with a rocking chair, with a dashing secretary.
You would have watched news channels reporting Jail break’s, with pictures of men who barely are humane in their appearance. Have you ever seen or heard of someone, who broke the kind of prison we are in, ever. No one would dare to attempt to break this vicious cycle. I think, “ Think”, yeah this is the least ever thing a human does on a daily basis, we are not allowed to, even if we are, we are like a cow tied to a tree, our thoughts would circle around topics planted into us, by our parents, friends and our very own society. Why is that you are asked to buy a home early in your life, why marry in the mid twenties, Kids in the early, late twenties, then get into jobs which are safe with bigger safer players, why, why, why. If you look at it from an angle that could be accused of being weird, being selfish and against the existing philosophies, these are unwritten rules that get’s you a life sentence without doing a crime. Say let’s take a Jewish kid born in Manhattan, what’s his sentence going to be, he is in a Jail the day he is born.
The exerts from his sentence would say the following “ Would go to a good public school, is supposed to love Math and Physics, will graduate in either Economics or Engineering or Finance, Will either be a lawyer, trader, banker or to the max a scientist. See the point here is not that the poor chap is not leading a good life, he definitely is, but then is it a life of his choice, well no one cares. It’s not the feet that’s chained us up, it’s the freaking mind, it’s much more tougher when the fight is within, guns bombs and force wouldn’t do much help. Will we ever break the chains ??? “ A million dollar question” and “ I am trying”.
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