Jaipur - 14th May, 2008.
Bangalore - 25th July, 2008.
Ahmedabad - 3rd August, 2008.
Delhi - 14th September, 2008.
Bombay -
Sometimes, the banality of statistics can be terrifying. It's cruel but true, and ignorance is a bliss this month.
Bangalore - 25th July, 2008.
Ahmedabad - 3rd August, 2008.
Delhi - 14th September, 2008.
Bombay -
Sometimes, the banality of statistics can be terrifying. It's cruel but true, and ignorance is a bliss this month.
Knowledge of deliberate ignorance is not bliss.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I'm doing this; just because I'm bad-tempered, it doesn't mean I should fuck up everyone else's mood. Even truth-telling should be controlled.
Great, you've got time till october, if the pattern repeats, that is. :)
ReplyDeleteIgnorance IS bliss, IF you would rather live in your own little world, than face reality.
Yes, it is deliberate. I think it's a reaction to what terrorists want - fear. As long as it's deliberate, it isn't ignorance in the typical sense. It's not reality, it's this terrible anticipatory feeling that I'm trying to fight, every day. I want something stronger than fear.
ReplyDeleteI love having my unpopped bubble to lie in. I'm just concerned...where am I going to land when it bursts? Not a poetic place, I'm sure. Maybe floating around in a dream is really the solution...maybe
ReplyDeleteGauri,
ReplyDeleteIt may not be a solution, but it is when you aren't looking for any. What scares me, apart from the obvious, is how I'm reading about hatred seeping in everywhere, the wrong people paying for mismatched sins and humanity not being able to bear the burden of being the last saviour, and how this knowledge creeps onto me and makes my fists tremble with helplessness. What am I left with? Hope is too feeble, denial is too simple. So maybe I can just ignore all of it, for a while, and concentrate on doing things that I can do. Spread smiles, open curtains to the sunlight, hold hands and splash in the waves, breathe freely. There's nothing like living, there's nothing but living.
Would we rather be blissfully ignorant or ignorantly blissful? And, is the presence of hate really a blatant indication of the absence of love?
ReplyDeleteHelplessness reigns supreme. Somehow. Somehow. Somehow. And maybe, just maybe, the answer lies somewhere between hope and denial. But the spot is never to be seen, only to be vaguely discovered. Like a whiff of vanilla, almost there, but not quite...
I don't know where this string is going - maybe I'm blissfully ingorant, or ignorantly bliffsul :D
ReplyDeleteBut I do know this - hair washed with aloevera smells wonderful :)
I'd go for Pecan Pie :D
ReplyDeleteIgnorance will continue to be a bliss, this month too.
ReplyDeleteAmidst all this chaos with the bombs, people commit more and more atrocious acts in the name of religion, (quoting the rape of the nun in orissa) and police officers stand by and let them commit these acts. Sorta like "All hell breaks loose." Sigh
There is one small catch with ignorance though. When that protective screen is broken, it will hurt bad. Real bad. Worse than when you're expecting it.
That's true, that's the thing about ignorance, right?
ReplyDeleteI was wondering.. are you blissfully ignorant if you have expectations of the inevitable happening, but continue to live your life without letting that strangle everything?