Ajay Devgan (in a borrowed raincoat 🙂 ) is the poster boy for this post. i have been wanting to write this ever since i saw the movie, and a few days back, when i saw another character like him, i had to write, because i know a lot of guys like these, and i sympathise with them..
– the driver who looks on in anguish as a guy zooms past him, riding on the wrong side, because he is too nice/meek not to do it.
-the guy who stutters at the waiter that the people who came after him have gotten a table as well as their food, and he is still waiting.
-the guy who slogs all day at work and watches a colleague walking away with the accolades because he aggressively presented himself.
-the woman who suffers verbal/physical abuse from her husband.
-the kid who is forever bullied by friends/cousins…………………
there is a feeling that aggression has to be developed if you are to succeed/ get out of the sad predicament/s you are in. but what if you are made that way, when you cannot be forcible enough, when you are too nice to take offense? are you going to be defenceless, are you going to suffer forever, is it only you who can save yourself? but if you are made that way, can you save yourself? or will you forever have to slink away to the bathroom to sit and cry in isolation? because you are too meek to even cry aloud.
and sometimes it is not just about being meek…it is because you have a principle that what goes around will come around, and therefore cannot bring yourself to shout/ proclaim/abuse…..
does this world cater only to people who are willing to fight? do you have to snatch something thats yours by right? do you have to shove your way forward all the time? was life ever meant to be such a big fight??
to correct myself, i dont sympathise, i empathise, because quite a few times i see the character when i look in the mirror.
until next time, ” Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth”.
*sigh* it’s the way of the world i guess manu 🙁 cos u know wot….someone more forcible than u will get the better of u all the time.and u will get the better of someone who is less forcible than u might be. not cos u plotted n planned it that way but cos thats jus the way it is.meek…meeker…meekest??survival of the fittest??
erratica: and i thought first the earth, then heaven 🙂
rapunzel: o-ho!! repairs are over??.. but u think meeker and meekest exist??
I sooooo agree wid Elixir! it ws coming to this city that turned me from the nice meek quiet lil kid to …. Well to me! 😛
N its speaking out that usually lands me into some kind of trubble every other day! :-S
But hey being neutral isnt a blessing… well not theoretically although in practical life i cant dispute its pros! 😛
But if you are neutral to things in life… arent you just passing thru life than living it? 🙁
good post… and interesting comments. I really dont know about the meek inheriting the earth …. because the way I see it – after the others have had their fill, there won’t be much left to inherit.
garfy: and how do we judge whether passing thru is not a better way??
SwB: want some faith? 😉
look at it from the entropic viewpoint- the more aggressive, sooner u run out of steam, thence the meek catch up or rather remain to inherit! kinda the hare and tortoise. ultimately agressive or meek, the world has seen them all and a mosquito can bring about the downfall of a world conqueror! as long as the stammerer and stutterer is happy with his way of life, who cares otherwise? and if the abused and repressed feel bad about their lot, they either change their circumstances or change their attitudes!either ways waiting for a messiah or complaining dont work!