My Inescapable Thought Abyss

Is it a curse to be blessed with the power of making things exist? Or a cure? As the World Book Day is approaching, I’ve been giving a good amount of thought to how fiction affects us. For those of you who do not know, the World Book Day is on 23 rd of April. Fiction is defined as prose that describes imaginary events and people. We can also say that it is something that is invented or untrue. In other words, it is not real. Do you believe that?   I don’t. Fiction is realer to me than reality itself. People often consider fiction as an escape from reality. They forget it could be more than just an escape. I’ll tell you what fiction means to me. The stories we hear, see, read, they all manipulate our reality like a tale of its own. They change the way we see things. They bend our beliefs. And specifically for prose, open our mind to the endless possibilities. (I didn’t mention movies even though they’re fictional because in case of movies our ...

It doesn’t happen frequently but recently I had this conversation with one of my former classmates on how every innovation is meant to fulfil a need, how everything we humans do is to make things easier or better for us, how every action of ours has a reason necessitating it. Like, for example, we ever thought of water conservation because a) our survival was dependent on it and b) there was a slight chance that we might run out of clean water. Why would we ever think of it if there was no threat to us, if we were never going to run out of it? This need necessitated action to be taken. It set our minds thinking about all the possibilities and how to overcome this problem. Now, here, it can definitely be counter questioned that if every action has a reason behind it, essentially necessitating it, then why do we strive to explore beyond the boundaries of human reach?  To say with an example, what was the need to venture space explorations and why did we, the res...

We are strong in our own ways. Ways which we’re able to explain to ourselves, if not others. We know it and we recognise this strength within ourselves because when the need arises, we’re the ones who shall make use of it. But despite all this, we are vulnerable. But when? When we’re overcome with emotions like those of joy or fear, or both? Or when we’re exposed to things that we don’t know about? A world lying beyond our horizon? Beyond what we can think of? I’d say both. You ask why? Well first case scenario, when we’re overcome with emotions (any), we tend to not think before we act. Right? That way, our actions are determined by both the feeling and the level to which it has taken over us. Second case scenario, when we’re exposed to stuff we have no clue about, we are vulnerable because we don’t know how or what will it lead us to. We don’t know what the consequences might turn out to be. Now, until we master it, we will remain vulnerable because the wa...