Friday, March 30, 2007

Dispensability ...

Well we are all special… a lot of thought goes into being ourselves … what we say , what we do, what we wear…our attitudes, our thinking, our values, our aspirations, our reactions … our job, our relationships ..

But are we that important???Or are we dispensable, easily dispensable …

Say tomorrow morning you, while still in bed, you decide you should quit your job. If you do, what happen… someone else will be hired do the work assigned to you. Your employers/clients will find someone … sooner or later … not as good or as good or better but by no means will any work be left undone. And this dispensability is both ways, tomorrow if you are asked to discontinue your job, it will be a change … but then you will move on. You are capable to doing the same job for someone else or some other job.

Same goes for personal life… if you think you are the centre point of someone’s life and he/she will directionless or devastated without you … try to move away … you will be surprised how … nobody is confounded …but they are enlightened that you are superfluous… this replaceability is again both ways …

Life is a like surface of a water body ...if a bucket full is scooped out …the rest of the water will come and fill… there is never a crater left on the surface

This perception is both humbling and relieving … and insightful … how we attach too much unnecessary importance to ourselves …

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good one...part of this feeling of self-importance is due to the ego stuff that everyone develops as a tool for survival...

Cheers
Vara.

Anonymous said...

Is it unrealistic to assume, in an existentialist sense, that the statement:
"If I dont feel your existence, if your existence doesn't affect mine, then your existence is a piece of statistics: just as much a figment of my imagination from my point of view as it is reality from yours. "
is logically followed by
"you exist only because I want you to: only because I choose that you do" ?

This is slightly off-topic but I believe it might be relevant at a meta-level.