‘Unconventional’
seems to be upbeat… the ‘in’ thing, as we like to call it. What’s so catchy
about all this ‘Being Offbeat’ fad?
Sounds cool, or rebelling,
or renders that ‘a step ahead’ feel… or are we getting it all wrong.
What’s the big
deal in being a candid photographer or a designer than an engineer or a doctor,
an entrepreneur to an employee? At the end of the day, everybody is busy
slogging, minting money.
The difference I
believe lies in the motivation, the intent. The desire to earn, even if it be
money, isn’t wrong. Highly defied by the philanthropists, this desire for money
is pretty justified if that’s what takes to satiate your soul. But ultimately
it is the ‘want for contentment’
that drives it all, and if your means fulfil the purpose, so be it.
Why an artist is unconventional and an
engineer not?
We tend to
depict unconventional-ism in artists because there’s where the motive of
pleasure and happiness seems more elevated. It looks as a stride for the
attainment of pleasure and is hence justified.
I’m not talking to
defend the corded engineering multitude of our generation, but if that work
renders them the sense of satisfaction… justified it stands. Although more
often than not, we have taken up this trend to find the easy way out. And hence
with all the effort we employ to enter that ‘breed of graduates’, its driven
more by the route to accomplish the mundane essentials. Consequence to it
being, a ridiculous inversion of paradigm. Rather than seeking pleasure we now attempt to find pleasure in the things we’ve earned, rather hoarded.
Scaling it to
self, I seek to ponder, what makes me gaze that LV bag or that timepiece from
Longines with utmost stupefied-ness, slogging day and night to save for it…
when that glitter of eyes is rendered by the serenity of solace amidst the
woods of Kumaon.
Looks like a
whole lot of introspection…
I might have
missed a lot in articulation, given the corruption an adult mind is subjected
to, for all these years… who other than a kid can do it better…
