Wednesday, December 01, 2010

An exultation in counterpoint

A single idea can at best be worked into a poem. After all, only in poetry does form and expression take precedence over substance. But prose, or even a song, must ring honest to all the vagaries of life. Oh, the possibilities! The effervescence! Every system tending towards maximizing entropy. The beauty in the chaos! In the dawning that there is nothing that must be done. That man is and always was entirely free. And oh, the new responsibility! To judge and to be judged - but only from within. Unlike the time in school when they put up grade-lists for hostel allocation...

An 'A' for the all-rounders, good at both studies and sports. A 'B' for those good at academics alone. A 'C' for the sport freaks and a 'D' for the pathetic. The idea being to distribute students equally as per their grade, such that no hostel had an advantage over the other. A fair and trusted strategy, so to say. But what of my dear dylanesque friend who was ceremonially labeled an 'A', but later publicly humiliated to a 'D'. He who still vacillates between rebelling and working towards regaining his lost glory? Every closed system closely guards against its irrelevance. Of one's freedom to become. Like the dog who believed she was so attached to her bone that she completely forsook all her meals. Or like the martyr to whom his suffering became an identity. But yet, this is not a poem.

One evaluates one's entire existence on how one feels at a given moment. Therein lies the whole point. The past is always insignificant. All it takes is one fresh unsoiled moment to forgive and be forgiven. Only one moment to attain harmony and retain it. Just like music!

5 comments:

nkshirsa said...

point!

(as a verrrrb)

meraj said...

lovely!
dont get the context but i think thats irrelevant.

Kits said...

Such bootiful points illustrated with your writing. Keep it coming :)

Krishna Reddy said...

Judging and being judged by others or oneself.. spoils freedom and brings bondage, misery.
Oh, Freedom! .. getting closer to one's own Self.

But judgments might come inevitably.. so we (need to) easily let go of them.. so to exult in even more freedom!

Yes! a fresh unsoiled moment.. how nice it is. Letting go of everything, the past, the evaluations/judgments, the compulsive need to judge/be judged/"know more/better about __" ..

Oh Yess! Letting go of everything to soak in bliss.. in a timeless fresh moment.. that is an eternity.

Love it :)

Let go Let go
Let go Let go
Let go Let go
Let go Let go

Relish the magnificence and Significance of an 'insignificant' fresh, beautiful moment of enlightenment!

Krishna Reddy said...

I am posting the email conversation between me and Fuzzy here for the benefit of the readers of this blog..
Faizaan Marolia to me
May 23

lovely comment!
i thought most people wouldn't understand my post.

but for you, this thought comes naturally!

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Krishna Reddy left a new comment on your post "An exultation in counterpoint":

Judging and being judged by others or oneself.. spoils freedom and brings bondage, misery.
Oh, Freedom! .. getting closer to one's own Self.

But judgments might come inevitably.. so we (need to) easily let go of them.. so to exult in even more freedom!

Yes! a fresh unsoiled moment.. how nice it is. Letting go of everything, the past, the evaluations/judgments, the compulsive need to judge/be judged/"know more/better about __" ..

Oh Yess! Letting go of everything to soak in bliss.. in a timeless fresh moment.. that is an eternity.

Love it :)

Let go Let go
Let go Let go
Let go Let go
Let go Let go

Relish the magnificence and Significance of an 'insignificant' fresh, beautiful moment of enlightenment!

Posted by Krishna Reddy to time has told me at May 22, 2011 3:37 AM

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Lovely..
Love you a lot :)
I am blessed to have a friend like you!
Cheers,
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Faizaan Marolia to me

me too fellow.
:-)

Krishna Reddy to Faizaan

Small doubt here.. What do you mean by "A 'single' idea can at best be worked into a poem."
I guess I could only partially understand it :-) Haan, sooo deep!

Faizaan Marolia to me

just that life is so much more than one single idea.. there are so many possibilities - no one clear right and wrong
Krishna Reddy to Faizaan

Not the " 'single' " part of it;
My ununderstanding is about "at best" part of the sentence.

Faizaan Marolia to me

oh that.. hmm.. so in music, especially in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, there is a technique called 'Counterpoint'. what happens in 'Counterpoint' is that there are two (or even more) melodies moving in parallel, often in opposite directions, but still giving rise to the same 'theme'. i was trying to do the same while writing.

one melody was to do with writing poetry and prose. how a single idea is not realistic prose.

another melody was to do with a student who was previously given an A, but later a D.

that way.