Thursday, 19 November 2015

Do not wish to grow up: A letter to a Boy


Do not wish to grow up, you are happy and content in your own cocoon, you can lay flank by your mother listening to a story she narrates which in fact gives you a peaceful sleep and nourish your longing soul. But if you grow up the first dirty politics you will learn from people is, you will be asked which school you had attended rather than what knowledge you acquired from school precisely, that is from where all your words and action will be arbitrated. The world won’t matter how brilliant you are and what you can become, if you are a son of peasant you will be derided and ill-treated. The second dirty political theory you will acquire from school is your principal will show no interest in your potential but he will focus more on your parent’s income. Later you will be judged even by the church not upon your merits or intellect but by the background from where you came, from where you acquired knowledge. All this unwise questions will push you to the extreme that your brain will learn to correspond the needs and equipped you to gambol with words but if you fail to equipped yourself you will be engulfed by a credulous structure which is monotonously created by a mortal being, however in any case you will lost a sense of freedom.
Do not wish to grow up, today you have one God who is simple, loving and caring and you have one church to worship Him from where you draw an immense pleasure, you enjoy the company of your friends in Sunday schools from where you got all the answers you seek, you enjoy singing, dancing, acting and listening to stories etc. But if you grow up you will be confused by people about faiths, dogmas, doctrines etc. The God whom you think you knew will be so complexly presented that your mind will be propelled to alienate self from Him and the alienation will generate chaos in your heart and will deliberately wipe your faith, in other words you will doubt His existence, doubt His providence, doubt his omnipotence, doubt His benevolence etc. but you still have to live with a fear to expose those doubts as sharing those questions such “why and how?” may designate you with all the indignity titles such as, heresy, fool, dumb, idiots etc, no one will be there to see deep inside of you, reason with you, provide you a light to find your way back home. Each moment in secret you will be tortured by many unanswered questions, those unanswered questions will continue to raid your sleep unless you learn to experience the other side of life.
Do not wish to grow up, today your heart beats only for your parents, neighbors and friends, but if you grow old there are peoples who are already unhesitant to break your emotion. You often will be bruised and ruined in such a way that you felt no strength left in you to restore and rebuilt yourself, you will have no one to understand how you felt. However you will have an excellent people who are skillful in agglomerating destructive jargons upon your fortune, who are hypocrite by nature. They would love to see you from distance but none will step forward to share in your brokenness, in the presence of many you will find yourself alone. In frustration sometimes you will accuse yourself and sometime you will accuse the world, you will be judged and deceived in the name of love, concern, and wellbeing. However, you have to convince yourself to belief in the notion that “it is how people run the world,” you will continue to experience this turmoil unless you fall into eternal slumber.  
Do not wish to grow up, now when the morning comes you can breathe in the fresh air, you can hunt the birds with your catapult, and enjoy seasonal fruits in the forest, when you are thirsty you drink untainted water from the rivers that smells quite natural and real. But if you grow up you will no longer have this privilege, all the trees will be chopped down and all the rivers will be polluted, your senses will no longer recognized the color of natural water, nor you will feel a natural scent. It will all be destroyed by selfish idiots just to support their luxurious living after which out of coercion your genes may learn to adapt new environment, adapting to adjust with polluted airs. However all the benefit will go to doctors who will make a good business of you, they will provide you opium in a way that you will always long to visit them.
Do not wish to grow up you are now living in a place where you can understand yourself and others, the others understood you too, it is because a complex and idiotic idea do not define you yet, albeit you are a boy you can understand how people live in your cocoon. But if you grow up your existence will suffer in the face of Identity, the charlatans will try to define you by relating your identity with the language you speak, with the antique you treasured, with all the practices you learned from your fore parents. Some among them will be so extreme to belief in their own invented fix and dogmatic ideas that they will show no mercy upon your inconsistency in believing their propagandas, at some point they may even take a risk to slice you. May be perhaps they failed to contemplate on the “nature of human persons,” that says humans are endowed with the nature to create and invent things by himself/herself if necessity dictates them. They will invent a language, a culture and tradition even if one took away from them. Therefore human can’t be tamed neither can be prisoned to one fix idea. The most bogus part is albeit they claimed that they know how to resolve social problems they themselves are so confused with their own idea that they confuse others too, they will confuse others to that extreme when one stood before the mirror they will have a tendency to question self, is the real me? Or am I hallucinating? However in contrary, prudence does not confuse others but illuminate the darkness that exists within oneself.
Do not wish to grow up, you are happy and content in your own cocoon.

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