“I complained that I had no shoes until I met someone who had no feet.”
Then what? What happens after you meet someone who has no feet? Some of these quotes sound good, even grand, but besides that what purpose do they serve? Are they anywhere close to the real?
This is what I feel:
- If you have feet then you need shoes. The kind you need and want may be different and based on the money you have and are willing to spend, on your likes, on your kinks …
- Isn’t it more important to think about those who have feet but no shoes?
- How is a person who desires shoes responsible for the situation of the one without feet?
I think we must stop getting, and putting people, on this guilt trip. It sounds wonderful, but sympathy is a weapon we often use to make others feel inferior.
We continue to covet shoes, we look up new trends, we are acquisitive…so can we cut it out and use these aphorisms only for their metaphorical value?
Like, yes, I complained about not having a Porsche until I met someone with no sense of direction!
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Cruel reality...give yourself a fair chance to feel for lil happinesses of daily life...
Cruel reality gets U and bites U, ONLY if UR newly rich,pretending to be rich,naive,petty,superficial,fake...
You are a wonderful writer and you’ve got a great blog. I’ve read some of your articles on Chowk. Though a person who desires shoes maynot be responsible for the situation of the one without feet but sometimes he is. Leaving aside metaphors because unlike you I am not of a literary sort, greed is our biggest problem. If you are suffering from a disease you want health. When you get health then you want wealth. And when you become wealthy then you go for power. Now this power can be used both in negative and positive ways. If you are selfish you only care about your own self-interest. But if you are a sympathetic person then you’ll look for the larger interest of humanity.
BTW this Porsche and GT discussion was a bit amusing. This is way out of my league. I am thinking about buying a Suzuki Alto. It works as good as any Porsche and consumes less fuel.
This was my first comment but I like your blog and you’ll see a lot of me in days to come. Have a good day.
Circle:
You can be a Formula One winner and still have to face cruel reality. But you are right...a li'l happiness can go a long way...
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Thank you, Nauman. I am greedy for nightmares...
Indeed, the discussion must have appeared amusing. But can you imagine when i once wrote something against Sachin Tendulkar a reader responded saying I was only jealous of his Ferrari; that's when i wrote back that i was a Porsche person. Now i am told that makes me so...grrr...
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