“WHY DRAG ME INTO IT?”

One of the reactions (I have only put it in the form of verses) to my poem ‘Born Free, But Not Born To Be Free’:

Philosophy should be for the great thinkers,
Socrates, Plato, Tagore, Vivekananda and their kind;
We should be content in wearing blinkers,
And not tinker with matters of the mind.

We have perfected our responses on the net,
To ‘Like’, ’emojis’ (depicting emotions) and ‘Comment’;
We can’t be expected to think, fume and fret,
About everything that is, on the net, sent.

Life is as simple as IPL cricket match,
Over which time can be justifiably dissipated.
But, certainly, we can’t open our mind’s hatch,
To the product of a mind that’s constipated.

In any case, who can reason about death and life,
Subjects that are beyond most of us?
If in a lifetime one can understand one’s wife,
That itself would take away most of our fuss.

You should stick to ‘Humour’, Ravi, my dear,
That, we acknowledge, is your core strength.
But, delving in Philosophy, is something, we fear,
Should never be attempted by you at length.

Look at me, how simple I have made my life,
I enjoy my life, to the hilt, as it comes;
No ‘negative thoughts’, no worry, no strife,
I totally leave philosophy to the bums.

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I have done a long stint in the Indian Navy that lasted for nearly thirty seven years; I rose as far as my somewhat rebellious and irreverent nature allowed me to. On retirement, in Feb 2010, the first thing that occurred to me, and those around me, was that I Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (you will find an article with this title in this blog) and hadn't lost all my noodles and hence thought of a blog titled 'This 'n That'. I later realised that every third blog is called 'This 'n That' and changed the name to 'Sunbyanyname'. I detest treading the beaten track. This blog offers me to air 'another way' of looking at things. The idea is not just to entertain but also to bring about a change. Should you feel differently, you are free to leave your comments. You can leave comments even when you agree and want to share your own experience about the topic of the blog post. Impudent or otherwise, I have never been insousciant and I am always concerned about the betterment of community, nation and the world. I hope the visitors of this blog would be able to discern it. View all posts by Sunbyanyname