A country of demi – gods

It remains, always, the country of Gods or godmen and now, in the present day and age, a country of demi - gods. It’s pathetic how we can always find someone or something else apart from our own consciousness to be the most sacred and a guiding source of light, the only thing that can really give direction to our slow paced and evil footed lives.

Well, I surely have started off with very strong words. Reason, I am amazed at the peculiar way in which our mental clocks tick. We need our parents to nurture us and keep giving us all the comforts, we need our teachers and school mates to help us constantly score good marks (believe me learning and knowledge accumulation is the least of our worries in school), we then, gladly fall prey to the cushion of our girlfriend’s bosom for facing the realities of life (choices to make and people to befriend), also somewhere along the line we have this parallel track of divinity which slowly gets entrenched in our minds through various mediums, like festivals, parents, teachers, schools and in the end by the time we touch that stage of our life when we need to make decisions, so very crucial to our destiny (let me use that word at the cost of sounding burdened by all the tracks) we are left incapacitated to make any move. If nothing else helps and we take the route leading to not so fruitful results we end up cursing the divine, or others who ideally should have given us proper guidance (huh), for whatever happened.

By the time we realize that the choices can not be made in accord with everyone else we end up forming these demi – gods in our mind. An actor from the film industry could be one good example, another could be business man. These creatures, though inspiring in many ways, are definitely not going to help us make crucial decision of our lives. We long to be with them. We burst crackers when their movies are released and celebrate when they win a huge business deal and mourn similarly when they lose a petty battle of their lives. Little do we realize that they are humans and make the same choices that we do and move in their lives pretty much in ways we do.

We are, at the very core of it, thumb suckers, who need constant crouching on others to take even tiny steps in our lives. We are the nation of demi-gods. Each one worshiping one, not being what they themselves can.