I heard an idiot on TV comment on something today. No I am not going to give away the name of this idiot. I had this strange preconception that everybody on television are fools. Not fools in the general way we look at concepts, but jsut fools. He commented that life is like a multiple choice question paper.. answer what you know first.. then skip the most difficult ones... and then start guessing on the ones you have a doubt.. I go a small step further.. just leave the difficult ones.
Looking back, I now feel these TV commentators are all not fools., It is so true, that we just leave all the difficult questions in life and go forward. Chances are that we would still pass the 'exam'. But who is this person who tries to get answers to every question he has infront of him. Fool... eccentric, an idiosyncratic jerk. Whatever he is, he is someone we are supposed to jeer at. A buffoon. But guys, is this buffoon wrong in asking questions .. or in trying to get answers to every question he has infront of him. We are comfortable laughing at him, because we ourselves dont have the gall to question a question, and when we see someone challenge a question, we get so unnerved, that we hide behind a veneer of self denial of the whole theory of rationalism. But he is also a fool to stop and wait for an answer to every question.. for the time for the exam is over. Whose purpose does it serve if you finally fail.. waiting for every answer. You need to compromise.. go ahead and skip the ones that you cant answer and pass the exam. Some cannot do that and get branded as buffoons. I am one of them, I need an answer for every question in life, before I go ahead. It is difficult for people around me to accept this.
People want me to move ahead leaving the difficult questions unanswered. I cant do that. Does that mean I am a categorised simian. I was quite aggressive in not giving up till I have every answer and explanation.. but time is taking its toll, and I have started compromising. But I only compromise on others attititude and concepts .. not my own.. Presumably, I would compromise on my own thoughts and actions in due course, when my faculties become weaker than it is now. It would be a sad day.. but I guess this is what is evolution. Some accept it, and some dont. But both leave the world in a coffin, and no body writes over their graves what he was. For me they could write 'here lies the confused one'.
Love to everybody.. John
