Monday, November 7, 2011

Life a bewidering saga!

Life is totally bewildering saga in a simple and profound sense, we have been tortured and threatened for almost 30 years ever since we finished graduation. The bright ones went to Harvard and Stanford to become investment bankers and screwed up our lives from the confines of Wall Street, people have lost faith in government, god and leaders.

They pin their hopes on their children, despite recession, unemployment and national debt; we shower all our money on them with designer clothes, I-pods, mobile phones and other expensive stuff. They are our last bright hope to turn dreams into reality, heaven on earth is a concept often invoked, but is difficult to define in these volatile times. Fate has become an unpredictable road and is still - a work in progress, and may degrade our dreams of the future. In the last two decades the chase for luxury goods and materialistic pleasures has increased in an obscene manner, consumerism has reached obsessive levels.
The anguish of the souls comes gushing out like a saga for the whole global community that is in transition. Knowing the truth is different from living it, when the only visitors we have are the milkman, post man and debt collector. Though we try to turn to each other in emotionally detonated moments of catharses, it is difficult to share our inner turmoil and disappointments. I am haunted by a collage of visions and recollections about family and past. The occupy wall street movement is a sort of meditative journey as seen from the perspectives of all men and women , searching for the truth in a deserted world. It is a sort of intense thriller set in a world of financial wars and reveals so much of the depth of its characters; no heroes, villains or leaders, just real people, and many of them hurting as they seek justice which

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