The election in India reminds me of Jennifer Lawrence mouthing "Sometimes, all you have in life are fucked-up poisonous choices" in American Hustle. Choice. To have the luxury of choices is good, to be bombarded with choices not so good, but to be presented only with terrible choices is surely the worst.
On the surface, we are all 'normal' within the paradigms of livable human society. What makes us interesting lurks beneath the surface of normalcy. Our wants are stretched thin on the surface, our needs just barely visible. If you could peel that outer layer away, you would see a colorful world of contradictions, choices and their effects, eternal struggle between free will and societal expectations, but the most endearing quality of all - a yearning for acceptance in our given (and accepted) form. Some of the most interesting stories have/could be written on aberrant behavior - the boy that lies in school (why?), the girl that laughs too much and too often (what is she hiding?), the chain smoker that gives up his/her addiction after three decades on a moment's whim, the prostitute that donates her time and money to charity, the alcoholic overachieving son of the underachieving pious father, the mother that sells her virtue for her child's material wants....the sheer complexity of human behavior is blinding.
What do your choices say about you?
2 comments:
Oh no! Do I need to answer that question? I am sure you what my choices talk about me!! Do you?? :P
That I am not the smartest in the room, even when I am the only one in it. :p
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