Dilate Your Pupils

Well let hope your pupils did dilate reading the title and your mind raced at the speed of light to assume some “exciting” things 😉

 

Well sorry folks, nothing naughty here, but yes, I am talking about wonder. We need to let go of ourselves in general and try and explore and think and wonder. I have realised that the more I wonder or the more I keep my mind open, the more life teaches me. Nature is an excellent teacher, once you start observing things and wonder why, you discover more not only about the world or universe at large but also about yourself. It is extremely interesting to have a conversation with oneself and keep on wondering. Like one great man had once said, stay hungry, stay foolish… ummm who was he?😉

Over the last few months, I have been interacting a lot with the new generation (Gen Z I mean) and I have realised that they have never been stressed as much as my parents had or even we had. My generation had it a little bit easier than my parents and my kid’s generation has it so easy that I sometimes wonder whether it will render their muscles useless. Maybe they will all just be reduced to a bundle of Appendices. I have worked with freshers in the industry and found that they haven’t taken much efforts during their graduation as well. The concept of struggle seems to have been eliminated. While its always better to adopt an easier path but we need to realise that the struggle is what makes us we. That is what shapes us. Maybe we need to let our kids fall and scrape and bleed for a while before rushing to them with bandage, tourniquets, the freaking hospital cart. We need to also remove the helmets during a cycle ride or the knee pads and the elbow pads. I don’t remember a day when my elbows and knees weren’t scratched, and they are still rough today. I wish my kid grows up with a lot of scrapes and marks, to commemorate his life. Let our kids dilate, let them wander and get scraped and hurt and bruised.

The third layer of the story is more related to a physical observation. We have no doubt discovered a lot of ways to save the environment, but I think that we have taken the story a bit far in our zest. I think that along with saving energy with LED lights, we have increased the light pollution, yes Light pollution. There was a time not far away when I could read perfectly well in a yellow or a dim, soot covered, white fluorescent light, but now I find it very difficult. The laptop screens, the phone screens, the white bright light everywhere, which are out to blind me if I stare straight into them, are all contributing to this phenomenon. The LED's are driving us nuts. They are too bright and too focused, kind of like Sheldon, maybe (from the Big Bang Theory), and they are equally annoying. Let’s get the old lights back and vow to use them judiciously, rather than blind ourselves.

With the kind of lives that we live, I wonder when was the last time that my pupils had truly dilated, whether in pure awe or just because the LED's were off…. Time to turn off the screen now 😄