It's better to be dumb...

It's better to be dumb and fortunate,

rather than being intelligent and unfortunate

I had resisted writing these lines for quite some time now. A few recent events brought it out again.

One sees people around oneself who are incompetent, unwilling or simply a pain in the a** and still getting away with it all. 

There is no more cruel a joke than someone being granted smarts enough to think and all that he\she gets to think about is why do I think so much and why don’t the others think a bit.

One who knows, one who can think has to do good. Who else would?

Guess one has to go through life and face whatever it has to offer. It’s not a bollywood pot-boiler where the good guy gets the girl and the bad guys get thrashed.

I remember attending a Marathi drama ‘Yada Kadachit’. It can be called as a spoof on the Mahabharata. In the last scene, someone, probably Krishna says that ‘finally’ the truth prevails. Duryodhana, one of the villains Indians love to hate, has a ready backlash, why finally?

Again guess it’s not the end till the good guys win!

A Sanskrit verse goes like this:

It's better not translated and felt in the original but still.. 

Take me from the untruth to the truth, take me from the dark to the light, take me from the death to immortality (or in a more heartfelt way, take me from this fragile, cruel and what-not world to the eternal feeling of blissfulness.)

I sometimes use these lines to joke around. I like to say that these lead me to three girls, 'Satya', 'Jyoti' and 'Amruta' (Agree that ‘Satya’ doesn’t exactly sound like a girl’s name, especially after the movie of the same name)

However, I sometimes think about these lines as I did while writing this. There is a more profound meaning somewhere there.


PS: Blogspot didn't save my original version. Possibly has a problem with the image pasted. This is what I could recollect after pouring my heart out the first time. Hope I could do it justice the second time around.