The Flight of the Albatross

The liberation of self is hardly the thing that people feel free to indulge in. It is quite surprising to notice that a majority of humanity still looks into artificial resources like money as criteria when they set out to achieve something in their tenure as human beings on earth. It is a material world. Matter presides over spirit in such a way that the spirit is just fading into the background gradually declining to a state of absolute nothingness. It is so much easier to find a person who does not do what he wants to do rather than to find a person who does what he wants to do. In other words, there is an essential trait in the social structure by which a majority of the population is polarized to a certain kind of career. A career which is popular and socially acceptable but which is not the kind that would redeem the inner self.

The core issue here is the lack of ability of an individual to understand himself and come to a decision on what he likes most. Owing to the general difficulty in arriving at a conclusion on such an esoteric issue, the general solution is to avoid thinking on the topic. Since, something has to be done ultimately the idea then is to follow what the mob does. Do something that everybody does and try and be successful generally assuming that what is good for the mob is good for the self, too.

It is the wish of every human being to move into a higher socio-economic stage once he has been at a certain position for a certain time. So, the vast majority just push in their next generations into fields which guarantee an elevation in this socio-economic structure. However, in this brouhaha of material improvement, the world probably loses out on a happy human being. In order to achieve this much touted about socio-economic development, one loses a chance to develop the human psyche, the individual human spirit. So, what can be done? How do we reach the apex and make ourselves happy, thereby making this world a better place to live in?

The answer to all these conundrums of life lies in the smooth flight of the albatross. The albatross flies because it has to fly. The albatross flies because it was born to fly. There is not a shade of doubt as one looks at the flying creature up above the world so high, that flying is the only thing for it to do. A flying albatross gets closest to perfection than anything ever shall. It is a very well known adage that no human being is perfect. There are so many congenital factors which just do not make it possible for a homo-sapien to reach that kind of a stage of perfection. However, one just has to agree that we need to get as close to this perfection as we possibly can which can be done by trying to do what one is essentially good at. It is this strength that one needs to tap within oneself to reach that stage of utopian perfection.

There are hurdles on this road as there are on any road that leads to the destination. An albatross is perfect because it is born to fly. There is nothing that an albatross can do which would displace it from its state of perfection. That is just not the case with us, human beings. We are nothing but people who are influenced enormously by anything ranging from the winds that blow around us to the infinite other people we talk and associate with. There are a million choices open to an individual to choose from. Where does one choose from? Which apple from what tree would be sweeter? One just does not know the answer.

The solution to this extremely tough question probably lies in trying out as many feasible solutions as possible. We should just try. The magnificent albatross never learnt to fly the first time it tried. No human being has ever found divine gratification the first time his sincere soul tried. The legendary Albert Einstein failed to clear many a paper himself before he made whatever history that we associate with him. The crux of the problem however does not exist in the inability to find a solution. The crux lies in the disinclination of the masses to move towards the dream of utopia. There is always a situation where one sits back and ponders on what he has to do in life. There is always a thinking stage in the life cycle of the sane human. At this juncture, the biggest threat of all is the mob and the influence it so successfully exudes on the innocent. The individual therefore needs to be wary of the mob because the mob robs him of the champion in himself. The champion has always to be found. One has to be the albatross. One has to find nirvana on earth.

A dream is a truth which is sans reality,Where the karma is the only actuality, Confidence to see clearly is what we need,To be one of the self satisfied creed.