ok, so i haven't posted here in a while now. guilty as charged. so, here goes, a piece of drunk writing i did in my final year of college, preserved and reproduced as under:
Inertia versus Action
‘Change’, as they say, is inevitable. An ability to change what one can and live with what one cannot would lead to Happiness. Happiness, over here, does not mean those momentary material pleasures that one experiences but something more lasting and enduring.
One can either accept change or try to resist it. Either reaction to change is an attempt to reach the same end, Happiness. Happiness must not be seen as an end. It is the path that one traverses on the way to the goal. To see matters from this perspective is a difficult task. So, if we accept that the process is superior to the goal, then we might as well accept the change and move on.
Sometimes, we embark upon tasks that are seemingly impossible. Why do we do this? It is Hope that drives us on. It answers the ever-present question of ‘what if…?’ by making us actually do what we are passionate about.
Thus, the original dilemma remains: ‘Whether to accept change or to resist’. To accept change would be to derive pleasure in the journey whereas to resist it would be to strive to reach the goal nevertheless. None of these alternatives seem rather appealing for the time, and so I resign to Hope that tomorrow will be a better day, irrespective of my actions today.
