Sometimes we take others for granted, we are occupied by an inflated sense of self-worth, which reaches the point where no deliberations are held and no opinions are shared. A sense of self-worth which does not allow communication, where enmity breeds disrespect. A situation where you become so exclusive to self that you lose connection with the rest. Such situations abound in friendship where one cannot stoop a little to save it, in relationships where neither of the two is ready to compromise and negotiate, in political discourse where the loyalty for an ideology supersedes wisdom. In those times, I am often reminded of the following poem by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Uchai Uche pahad par, ped nahi lagte Paudhe nahi ugte, na ghaas hi jamti hai. Jamti hai sirf barf, Jo Kafan ki tarah safed Aur maut ki tarah thand hoti hai Khelti, khilkhilati nadi, Jiska roop dharan kar, Apne bhagya par boond-boond roti hai. Aisi uchai, Jiska paras Paani ko patthar kar de, Aisi uchai, Jiska daras heen
Inception is an interesting movie, not because Christopher Nolan directed it but more so because its entire plot is based on the concept of supplanting a dream in a person’s mind without them, at the slightest, realisng it to be implanted. The synopsis when judged on the face value appears not only entertaining but also novel. And it is so, as long as it remains in the realm of fiction and cinema, but it becomes ugly and unfortunate when it turns into a reality and even worse if everyone has been implanted with the same dream. As the child matures from his infancy to his adolescence the dreams start to manifest itself in his ambitions, lifestyle and his choices. He is under the constant illusion of being the original dreamer, when, in reality, the seeds of his dreams were sown already when he was an infant or a toddler by his parents and the immediate society, although subtly yet effectively. His mind was already implanted with the great ideas of becoming a lawyer or a scient