Our Aspirations Goal or Greed?

A crisis makes you realize that you are just a human. When you fail or don’t achieve your goal you feel as if the world has come to an end. You don’t want to listen to anyone’s gyan on being positive, quotations on success, motivation etc. etc. etc. We are only concerned with that failure and even the future looks a failure because of the existing failure. One feels as if the entire world is only concerned about us. Actually we are not afraid of the failure but we are afraid of other’s reaction. We don’t know how we will face others.

450 million people in our country live on less than 1.25$ per day. That’s a meager Rs.57. We spend on an average an amount which is nearly 1300% times more. Still we are not happy. We want to earn more and more.

Goal or Greed?

Consider a terrorist who wants to blow an entire city. For this he works hard meticulously day and night. It’s his ambition, desire, aim, dream etc. “God help those who help themselves”. Then should God help him? All our answers will be in negative. Why? We will say “his intentions are wicked”. But who decides if one’s intentions are good or bad. It’s absolutely subjective. From a terrorist’s point of view his act is justified.

Goal or Greed?

I want to own a farrari and an island.

Goal or Greed?

Even a billionaire business tycoon is not contented. He is worried that his rivals are growing at a faster rate than him.

Goal or Greed?

A student is disappointed that he missed 99% by just one mark.

Goal or Greed?

Actually there is no relationship between money, happiness and goal. Today goal is perspicuously related to money. Majority of goals are based on wealth. It’s a rat race which has no end. In Mumbai if you are travelling from Church gate to Mallad, it doesn’t matter if you own a farrari or a maruti 800. Both will take the same time to reach its destination. Even a billionaire is as tensed as a common man. Then why the rat race? We have actually forgotten the essence of life. First is our health and second is spreading happiness. We don’t realize the importance of health till we fall sick. A person suffering from Cancer doesn’t want 100 million dollars, he just wants to be cared.

Philanthropy is considered to be the work of NGO’s or someone like Mother Terresa. WHY?

We have made our entire lives an Excel sheet which orders us what should we do. The movie 3 Idiots addresses the same problem brilliantly. An MBA aspirant in India is only concerned about pay packages. He may not know the full form of an institute, but will know the highest package being offered. I am not saying that packages are not important but making it the sole motive is a crime.

Today, in reality Goal and Greed have become synonym. According to Oxford dictionary goal is “something that you hope to achieve“. But in my opinion this definition is flawed, atleast in existing world. Our accomplishments should make others happy or atleast majority of the people are happy about our success. There is nothing called personal goal, its just greed.

In my opinion goal and greed can be defined by the simple means given below:

Suppose you achieve your objective and say

H - is the number of people who are happy when you achieve your aim

UH - is the number of people who are unhappy when you achieve your aim

If H > UH , It’s your GOAL

If H < UH It’s just your GREED

So are you following your Goal or your Greed? You are the one to decide.

Our World in desperate need of an AVATAR!!!

The last movie I saw in Chennai was $1200 million Avatar. It’s difficult for most of us to even imagine a cube in 3D. And here is man named “James Cameron” who has created a whole new world, Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system called “Pandora” with imagination so real that even “Earth” would envy “Pandora”.

Pandora is inhabited by the Navi, a ten-foot-tall blue-skinned species who live in harmony with nature. We land on Pandora to mine an extremely precious mineral called “Unobtonium”. For our selfish motives we burn the beautiful and the innocent Pandora to ashes just like a new born is crushed in a grinding machine. The comparison might arouse grotesque images in one’s mind but that’s what human’s have become ugly, callous and brutal creatures. We are walking murderers wearing the veil of suits. The recent attack on “Dr R K Pachauri” and “IPCC” by the advocates of economic development regarding error in their report is outrageous. They are celebrating victory as glaciers will not be melting by 2040 and thus want to continue burning our own Pandora (earth) in the same way as they have been doing in the last 30 yrs. The results of these diabolical activities can be perspicuously seen today. Earth has already started bleeding. The northern hemisphere is witnessing one of its coldest winters ever in its history. Normally in India festivals like “makar sankranti” or “lodhi” marks the arrival of autumn. But the temperature dipped further once these festivals arrived. The recent earthquake in Haiti has pushed the nation 10 years back. Just imagine an earthquake or some other natural disaster in populated cities like Mumbai or Delhi. The point is glaciers will definitely melt be it in 2040 or 2080. And the damages caused will be irrevocable. No amount of economic development can substitute for human life. Countries around the world must stop boosting about their GDP’s and quibbling about who must initiate the steps to stop carbon emission. What will the countries do with GDPs, development and power if these become the very reason for our extinction?

We must remember that our future generations would be cursing us for what we are doing to our own Pandora(earth). In the climax of the movie Avatar the Hero "Jake" and pandoran wildlife saves Pandora. But who will save us??? The answer is "WE". It’ strange that we the villains have to change their roles to we the heroes. We need another Avatar to save our world. I know its late, but then I also know that Hero always tastes victory in the end.