So, while having a conversation
with A about life, messy life and our messier head, I wondered if the concept
of life is over-hyped.
It was just day before yesterday
when I was out with D, and after a great lunch and coffee afterwards, we were
passing by a magazine stand where she got a business one, and I a political one
which was having a free health issue with it. Back home, true to my nature, I skipped
the political issue and turned the pages of the health one. The theme of it was
“Happiness.” Different people talked about different sources of happiness. But by
the time I was halfway through it, I was already bored.
So, it seems that even the topic
of “How to be Happy” can’t get my attention for long enough!
Anyway, coming to the
conversation with A, she says she’s all messed up in her head. And it just
randomly occurred to me that may be we give too much importance to life. To
being sincere, honest, responsible, punctual, and all that. Being a teacher, I shouldn’t
be saying this stuff. But somehow, it has always occurred to me that being too
serious only brings more problems.
But the mind-blowing idea that
came to me while talking to A was that of “Recreational Death”. Well, the
nomenclature credit goes to her, for I could only describe the phenomenon, and
she came up with the very advertise-y name!
If I was bored with living, the
daily inhale-exhale process, then I should have the option of choosing a way
out, temporarily! Like people take sabbaticals from job. Of course, at first
people should try all the various types of activities and live their life and
not think about boredom. But what if one gets bored in spite of everything, or
rather, because of everything? Where is the option of taking-a-break?
So, there should be a machine or
something, which could give us the opportunity to ditch the breathe-in-breathe-out
for a few days, but keeping the body alive nonetheless, for when the soul comes
back. And then we could carry on, all happy after the soul-vacation!
And in reply, A opined, “Tor
matha ta puro geche!”
