My first post since I've landed here. I've all settled down here pretty fine. I've begun understanding the frowns, recognizing the smirks, realizing the hints. My whole view of things has undergone a major upheaval. My english is screwed up big time majorly coz leisurely reading has taken a back seat right now. My cooking skills have improved from burnt-food to too-much-salt. My fashion sense has dipped to an all time low. And i'd rather skip the topic of personal hygiene. I never really cared about money and that still remains the same. I pay a very heavy price for it at times (well technically my dad does) but i simply refuse to learn. I refuse to give any importance to a few green notes in my life. I need them for some basic stuff.. but thats where i draw the line. I don't want to be the proud owner of a safe overflowing with bundles of them. Yeah I'd love to have a huge bungalow overlooking a river and i'd love to own a lamborghini. But no big deal even if i din't. Ambition has never really been my most defining trait and i aint doin anythin about it.
A major part of my life here is spent looking a things from the right or wrong perspective. From all that i've seen here, most people tend to lose that sense in their desperation to achieve and succeed. I understand people have problems. Loans to clear, families to feed, houses to pay for. But these are hardly reason to justify a wrong as right. In fact i can hardly think of a reason that justifies a wrong as right.
The whole concept of right and wrong is relative. Each one defines it in his own way. And somehow this point has been highlighted over and over out here. I don't claim to be the most righteous person around. I have chosen that easier route over whats right so many times. I am trying to change that now. for that i need to set the boundaries for each. And that is where i am faced with my biggest issue. I have always believed that a majority of the worlds problems are because everyone "does" what he thinks is right. People blow up places coz they think it is right. People attack countries coz they think it is right. People pollute the environment coz they think it is right. Maybe the leaders of all these movements know the reality. But not the ones below them. They truly believe that their goals are what would change the world for better and they are prepared to give up their lives for it. Thier enthusiasm, though admirable, is somehow misdirected or rather mis-righted. They believe in working themselves to change the world. In doing things themselves. And it is this whole feeling of "doing" what is right that scares me a little. After all your opinion of right might not be right after all.
Just having different opinions of right and wrong won't harm anyone. But enforcing your right onto the world would. Maybe this is why religion was invented. To have a universal code of rights. As of now the only right i've have decided on to support whole heartedly is to do things without hurting others involved. I try to do it. It gets tough at times. but maybe overtime id start getting better at my judgement.

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