Divergent Feelings

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Divergent Feelings

Orderly Disorder

 

'Press a bit harder,' said Joe, and I increased the pressure on the

spring. The coiled simplicity rebelled and sprang lose from my grip

hitting the glass bottle kept to lubricate finished contraption. The oil

spilled over and ran into a narrow stream. Drop by drop it started

trickling down on the collar of my coat loosely hanging below. I jumped

to rescue the coat from further spoil when it got entangled in the tiny

nail in the wood. And the precious coat gaped open to reveal its inner

lining and I cursed my luck. Anger started boiling up within, and I

shouted, 'Joe, you fool, why could you not handle the minor job of

adjusting the spring? What a mess! Run and bring something to clean the

oil.'

 

And as Joe started on the errand, abruptly his toe got mixed up with the

loose thready border of his trouser - jeans they call it - and as a

result he stumbled over. As he was about to fall, he caught hold of

Jenny standing nearby 'enjoying' our predicament. The unexpected heavy

jerk caused her to stagger leftward and in the process the bamboo

supporting the tent slipped laterally. And down came the whole structure

crashing down on us. 'You, Joe! What are doing?' I shouted, when my

little daughter entered lifting the thick canvas of the tent, and

innocently said: 'Papa, has the " Tower " crashed?'

 

And, indeed, our lives and this world are full of such diverse feelings.

The totality cannot but express itself in infinite ways, and as the

observers and interpreters are infinite, each is correct from his or her

respective 'position' or 'station' in life. From the rung of

evolutionary ladder the person happens to occupy, he or she sees one

aspect of totality that he or she unwittingly believes to be true! To

call one as 'the only truth' however would bring forth something

different in its juxtaposition. Then, slowly, reluctantly, but surely

the strangeness dawns amidst apparent order; is this world really real?

 

C S Shah

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