It's 2030 and we are fighting Zombies whilst craving Freedom
Gas Masks have become the new N95 masks!
Thursday, April 01, 2021
Imagine its December 2030, the Sun is playing hide & seek, water coming out of the taps is almost freezing and you realise that you are running out of eggs for breakfast. In order to go out and buy some eggs, you pull out one of your old jackets from the closet and find a N95 mask in the front right pocket and say to yourself “What a year that was”, and you smile. Then you put on your gas mask because the air is proliferating with pollutants, load your shotgun and you go kill some zombies on the way to get some eggs from the grocery store.
Yes it’s 2030, the so called aliens in the form of zombies have already invaded Earth! Shotguns, Armours, Gas masks have become a part of clothing as the FREEDOM you enjoy today IS NOT FREE in the year 2030.
“Freedom isn’t free” - This brings me to today’s topic for discussion.
We all are well versed with the above mentioned adage and each one of you reading this might have a different view on it. Let me put my observations onto the table to support my argument and I believe almost everyone reading this would relate it to the core.
Okay so lets Time Travel to the past …. (Any Marvel fans here? *_*)
Take yourself to the times when you were in grade II, III , IV or at max grade V. Remember, How we used to had seating rotations? On Monday sitting on the front bench with all the seriousness and concentration in this world, mugging up whatever the teacher said and then suddenly on Friday sitting at the last bench, doing all kinds of mischiefs, with your soul and mind somewhere else but your heavenly body in the classroom and then again on the front bench but in a different row the very next day! Some of us actually hated that. Didn’t we? We craved for the freedom which we have today! Sitting wherever we like, with whoever we like. NO BOUNDATIONS! Moving forward in time, what happened when such BOUNDATIONS were lifted and you got the freedom you craved for? Let me help you if you have the memory of Sanjay Singhania from the movie Ghajini!
Freedom which you considered as FREEDOM (hyped) actually constrained you.
Close your eyes and recall all the benches you have sat on and attended the lectures from in the class in the last 3 months(pre COVID). Here is what it looks like in my case —
Red dots indicate how well I have enjoyed my FREEDOM. And I guess similar is the case with you. Surprisingly, you too will have a similar chart and will find yourself sitting at the same or maybe around one particular desk. And you know why? Because we have comforted ourselves to that place. And Who doesn’t like the Comfort and that too with an added advantage of as some say FREEDOM!
Still this is a random distribution, let’s move a step ahead…
You get a good paying job, a cubicle of your own with all the privacy and stuff. But again, you go to the office and find yourself sitting at the same place throughout the day. MIND YOU, ONE PLACE THROUGHOUT THE DAY FOR YEARS!!
Does it even a matter?
While in your school, you got to sit everywhere, near the window, with the birds singing, the bees humming, the trees swaying, near the door, listening the pin drop silence of the corridor, at the last bench, with all kinds of funny sounds, mid-class lunch break, at the first bench, with all the geeky nerds impressing the teacher. In short - an all rounder.
Now, we enjoy the powerful silence of the corridor so much that we never want to experience the melodious sound of the birds and vice versa. I remember an incident from last summer when a lecturer admonished us saying - “if we continue to misbehave she would make us do the rotation thing.” And we all actually laughed at the very thought of it (including the lecturer).
The FREEDOM which we have been craving for since childhood turned out not to be free. It costed us our ability to think from a different perspective, to have a different view. This is actually CONFINEDOM (Yes it’s not a word my dear grammar nazis) and not FREEDOM!
As we grow old, we are confined to our spaces, which actually hinders our growth and creativity in some way or the other!
Some things that you may find interesting-
Article I am reading: “31 Ways to Ensure You Never Say the Words — ‘I Don’t Know What to Write About!’” by Michael Thompson
Thought I am pondering upon: We are rich with feeds that distract. Can we construct feeds that enrich?
Song I am listening to: Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo
Quote I am enjoying: “Be brave enough to suck at something new”.
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