What May I Hope For?

                       

What May I Hope For?

My heart may not content with this literary note to express how pleasure it has been for me to be a part of Pune KSO members for the last two glamorous years.As I move on to the nick of time,my inner being pokes me to draw down something that constantly thumping my head during my short stay in Pune.However, let me begin the discussion unraveling a brief notion of what neuroscience tells us about our human nature. Recently, neuroscience informs us that the cultural backgrounds and practices influence the mind of the persons so strong that,it even alters their perceptions and worldviews. Precisely it changes the persons by changing their mind. I hope we all have the experience of experiencing cultural relativeness as we constantly shift ourselves to various places for higher learning and to fulfill our social urge by initiating different jobs. In this very short note, I shall attempt to postulate the two different worlds, the world of students and the world of employees, by keeping “A Hope of happiness” as the object of our discussion

What may I hope for as a Student?

In fact I do not deem myself qualify to tell you something on what students ought to do or ought not to do, as we all seek professionally successful person to be our mentors. However, it is not my intention to take you to the step of following certain patterns related to your professional course, but with the virtue of judgement (which we all possessed) I must convey how we should keep our hope alive in the midst of perilous temptation. It is our human nature that we bewildered with certain phenomenon of life, especially when we begin to experience different living reality. Our concept begin to change when our voyage to different world takes us apart from the originality of our own culture, it even sometime quiver our commitments due scorn by others either snuggle with the environment.Soon, we are tame and leisurely deluded with certain attraction and consequently initiate ourselves to work without giving a hyper thought that our single decision today may Topsy-turvy the long cherish hope.

Once Aristotle precisely voiced that, “the ultimate goal of all human being is to attain happiness…” in fact we all seems doing what gives us happiness or what can give us happiness. We strive so hard for education because the ultimate goal of education itself is happiness; apparently, it appears to me that our every act seems to be causally connected to one another especially when we observe it from the vantage point of hope. However, the epistemic gape between happiness and hope is quite notorious to clarify, for we do not really realize that what we choose today for happiness may subsequently end absurd tomorrow. On the other hand,as students,the hope that we have commonly set forth in our preconceive ideas as the gateway to perfect happiness is non-other than acquiring maximum wealth in lifetime. Sadly, a failure to fulfill that hope is considered as unsuccessful persons in our society even if they are more sagacious than wealthy persons. It is bizarre that their advice is not taken into serious account as we are habituated adjudicating the persons from materialistic point of view than intellectual credentiality,who indeed are merited to render a proficiency of long-lasting wealth for society. At this very point,what we should not fail to recognize is sometime wealth comes as a gift to someone or comes by luck to some, but this same story is widely unconnected to unlucky man who put extra efforts to become rich, saving its single penny from his incomes but at the verge of fulfilling his dreams it can happen that this poor man meets unfortunate cruelty, say his mother may be caught up with strange sickness which then coerces him to invest all his wealth for the treatment. But reversely, a lucky man may not invest much time to get rich, a single risk in life, say he hit a lottery or another form of business may make him a wealthy person within short exertion. Therefore we should not wrongly assume wealthy person as wise man, neither identify our hope of happiness with wealth alone as it’s immoderately rampant in our society that even a wealthy persons commit suicide out of stress or mental depression.

Keeping this psychological fluctuation in mind, what I attempt to precisely postulate is that, hope is an endless chase and happiness can be experienced in the course of pursuing hope. Henceforth, one must courage enough to continue to pursue hope as long as he/she exists, but the object of our hope should not infringe the happiness of others, coz a deviation from it may bring anguish. There is a saying, “Prostitutes and scientists are well paid for doing what they want…” though the statement may not be acutely coherent, yet it is applicable in certain levels of our life. I have dimly shown that wealth is not the guarantee of the ultimate happiness of life. Hence, a students should bracket wealth for a time being and subject themselves in studying individually gifted area in order to detach self from boredom and dismal in their long pursuit course like a professional prostitutes and scientists who are never bore with what they do. Sometime most students don’t realize that they are caught in the grip of mechanism from which there is no escape by choosing what they see or what they are told rather than what they really love to do (It is good to stay alert that sometime following the crowd is hazardous to our individual existence). Hence, having a sense of hope that all knowledge essentially and ultimately landed in same ground the students should not stop cherishing himself/herself with passion that the gift in “itself” is sufficient to fulfill his or her hope of happiness.

What may I hope for as an employee’s?

I have briefly shown how the students may persistently strive for a greater hope in the midst of temptation. However, before moving further let me make myself clear that I am not theologizing the term “temptation”, but I am locating it in a social and scientific phase where any young exuberant persons can divert their focus and goal. Similarly, the same amounts tune to employees.

So far I have not had working experience, yet I do read the mind-sets of the employees or business persons and I have personally anticipate their discussion and almost gone through the sense of feelings they have for each other. They commonly frame their mentality with the slogan of“earn more than needs.” They envisage that any persons who are capable to live a luxurious life is simply successful person by failing to do a deeper analyses of their life. As a wealthy person is given all adoration in our social system, let us re-examine whether such a person’s life is worth living or worth following as Russell suggest,For instance,consider a man who has a beautiful wife, lovely children, well infrastructure house, and latest model cars, etc. Now, imagine he wakes up early morning and hurries off to his office while his wife and children were still asleep. It is his duty to display the qualities of a great executive; he cultivates a firm jaw, a decisive manner of speech and an air of sagacious reserve calculated to impress everybody except the office boy. He dictates letters, converse with various important people with whom he is conducting or hoping to conduct a deal. The same sort of thing goes on all afternoon. He arrives home, tired, just in time to dress for dinner. He had numbers of other tired men,pretending to enjoy the company of ladies who have no occasion to feel tired. The working life of this man whom we considered successful person and happy man has the psychology of a hundred-yards race, but as the race upon which he is engaged is one whose only goal is the grave, the concentration, which is appropriate enough for a hundred yards becomes in the end somewhat excessive. What does he know about his children? What does he knows of his wife when he leaves her in the morning, she is asleep. Throughout the evening, he and she are engaged in social duties which prevent intimate conversation. He may not even have friends who are important to him, although he has a number with whom he affects a geniality that he wishes he felt. Books seem to him futile and music highbrow.

In fact I do not deny that the feeling of success makes it easier to enjoy life. A painter let us say who has been obscure throughout his youth, is likely to become happier if his talent wins recognition. Nor do I deny that money, up to a certain point is very capable of increasing happiness; beyond that point I do not think it does so. What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrifice to obtain it. So, the hope that we attempt to achieve does not lie far distance but it is within a person and obviously it needs to be work out or some needs to be realized i.e. how we profess things together and how we handle the problem that occur in life, with colleague, family and friends, etc. Sometimes a married man can have little times together with family which may unfold surmount of happiness that he may never expected before,for instance, father may draw a new inspiration from their growing kids and courageous from his lovely spouse (I learn this lesson from my father). Sometimes I am stagger with wonders why happiness has to be scour traveling miles away from home while happiness could be discover within the fence of our own home, as I have seen many Europeans coming to our country (India), seeking happiness through different means, such as practicing meditation, hoping to find inner peace or some short of religious enlightenment.

Assessment

Finally, I will argue that the hope of our existence should not be shoddily identified with mammon which I presuppose all human beings are commonly doing. As I have mentioned, hope is unending process which one can only approach in accepting the reality of our existence, not obsessing too much to future or remorse over our past life. I have genuinely seen some people who thwart their present life for future shake and some spends their life sordid and vengeance by living past in present. We shall not forget the fact that we human beings are design with a potential to raise hope within and the ability to grasp every single opportunity to be happy. So, happiness is not necessarily to be expected in future event, coz it is so uncertain that tomorrow will continue to dawn, obviously as a Christian, we have a greater hope of happiness beyond our present existence where all human being may experience the equality of happiness in the presence of God. But as for present, it is important that we learn to be happy and enjoy ‘today,’ only than we can attain a blissful hope of future together with peace and gratification.