Politics, too, is an arena that has engulfed us and miniaturized us into labels that brook no deviation. Once we embrace a label, we are trapped in it and perform our duties as mandated. We must slant our views on all sensitive subjects, shut out evidence to the contrary, celebrate victories on our side with disproportionate glee, and spin our defeats expertly. It is our solemn duty to fight against a contrary opinion and to seek refuge in the banality of like-mindedness. We are convinced we are right, and that can be an exacting burden to carry.
From article : An Ode to Indifference by Santhosh Desai
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Fun, Defined
Found above interesting quote from one of the blog posts of famous author Mark manson.
Since the revolution of social media, it has become a trend among all generations to mandatorily have fun or at least express that they are having fun.
People of our age have suddenly become wanderlusts.
WhatsApp has brought out many naive singers and dancers out of 60+aged parents.
Dancing and performance at a family event has become a ritual.
Doesn’t matter if they know how to dance, you shouldn’t judge them because they are having ‘fun’. They are ‘living their life to the fullest’.
If you are shy and introvert, you are ‘missing’ too much of life.
It is sad how measures of ‘having fun’ is being defined by social networking and agenda driven, commercial embedded cheap media contents.
Sitting on a rock bench, and quietly observe the leaves rustling, listening to a random tune from a bird hidden inside some invisible nest, calmly hearing all the chaos out there in the world can also be fun.
Spending the whole day doing nothing but lying on a couch, reading a few pages of a book, can also be fun in its own way.
Things we do on any typical day need not be labelled as ‘fun’ ‘boring’ ‘mundane’. They are just the way they are.