The Iconoclast

It is International Women's Day and incidentally (or maybe not) Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar.

It is time that the females of India and other developing countries too to take over the reins from their male counterparts. It would be heartening to see women who are in power and take the county forward and I would like to see it happen soon.

In a country of over a billion people, atleast half a billion women, we hardly have a handful of ladies in power. And this is not a reason for men to be proud of, it is shameful for both sexes that we as Indians who are on the road to (ahem!) development have not more that a few hundred powerful women.

A friend of mine once remarked - Men do not have power, woman empowers man.

If that statement is to be held true, I would like to see not just a few but lots of women climb up the ladder of power and position.

And last but not the least - I would like to wish firstly my mother and sister and secondly all the females on the planet a Happy Women's Day! and lots of success.

This post is attributed to a group of people who now talk about me like this - "he is ruining his life", "he's got so much potential but he doesn't use it", "Oh! What a pity that such things have befallen on him" and much much more.

Now I ask you readers - What drives man?  What inspires him the most?  Is it - greed, money, lust or power? Is it GOD, religion, science or the unknown?

Well these questions have various answers, but here is my point of view...

Love drives me, cause I haven't found it yet.
Knowledge drives me cause I haven't gained it yet.
Compassion drives me cause I haven't shown it yet.
Kindness drives me cause I don't have it yet.
Happiness drives me cause I haven't felt it yet.
Sadness drives me cause I haven't cried out yet.
Peace drives me cause I don't know it yet.
Nirvana drives me cause I haven't attained it yet.

These things which inspire me might look foolish, stupid and out right crazy, but they drive me, inspire me and lead me forward. I don't want power or money. I'm not greedy nor do I desire for anything.

The rat race that mankind is going through right now has broken me. It has made me more of a human being though in the process. Science today is entering its dark ages. It leads mankind more and more into darkness. Its continuous evolving and turmoil breaks anyone who isn't upto its pace and tune.

I like stagnation now. Constant. Steady. No Variables. No changes. Today we are nomads, more like technological wanderers. We move from orkut to facebook to twitter to what not. We shift from one company to another for the want of green government sponsored paper. We shift from one channel to another, where people fight, abuse and kill each other - all cause they too are lost. They are in a void. A void that science has created and religion/spirituality cannot fill.

Are we what science today wants us to be - complete jerks who have nothing better to do but to delve deeper and deeper into the unknowm? Yes, curiousity is good. But stopping at a point till we need more is another thing. Greed is mankind's greatest friend and enemy. It is greed that gave man everything, and is greed that will snatch everything back from him.

All I say is this - Don't be a statistic. Get a LIFE!!

My ennui had overcome my procrastination... That's when I started to blog almost two years ago.

Now, my procrastination overcomes my ennui... that's when everything gets screwed up again.

So presently on hiatus... until better words come to play with me...

Till then bear the silence... or read the other more shitty blogs on fullhyderabad!!

Signing off...

XLNC

I am a synonym for Loneliness, Solitude, Seclusion, Isolation, Separation, Segregation, Detachment and Objectivity.

"I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." – John Galt

I am a rock. I am an island. Isolated and deserted. Alone and peaceful. Happy and profane.

And as my blog title suggests, I am an ICONOCLAST.

Here’s something about me –
1.I am curious. And curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
2.I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child.
3.I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
– Quoting Vladimir Nabokov
4.I am a man of small dreams and big ambitions.
5.I do things for the mere satisfaction of my satisfaction. That really didn’t make sense did it?
6.I rarely make any sense, except for nonsense.I am The Living Joker, no not the one from a pack of cards but THE JOKER from the Batman Series, no not Heath Ledger-esque but Arkham Asylum types!!

I am not famous, but my blog is!!

I have only words to play with, and I am in dire need for friends. And this post is intended to do just that - tell the world what sort of a person I am and if at all any one reading this post is compatible with me just leave me a comment and I’ll get back to you if I find you interesting enough.

Signing off,
XLNC