Unagi - Another Rant about Life

If there's something that's always annoying and is always gonna be, it's this little separation of birth moment. People born in a certain timeline, into a specific environment, among a niche of people who would go on to influence their views and opinions about what is it that they actually like or dislike.

But is this Generation Gap really a valid term to be thrown around anytime two people with a vast age difference have an argument? I don't think so. I believe we all have the potential to appreciate anything that came into being at any point of time.

The ability to like and dislike something is affected by factors that are just a big cave full of numbers.

Although when it comes to music it is not much the style but the sheer volume of the music we listen to these days, and our faithful reluctance to turn it down. It's this that the "wiser" detest among us "dumb-asses".

Now I cannot say I agree with that personally, because I do too listen music loud on my earphones. But when it comes to concerts, the need to reach the mass magnitude of people beats the need to be below par of complete obliteration of auditory receptors. We cannot not agree to that either.

But everything else really comes from the constant need to feel under control and dominant of everything.

We humans, we tend to be dominant. It's how we're all brought up.

"Fend for yourself"

"Stand up for yourself"

"Say yes to no one but You"

Now I'm not talking about all those anomalies but we can agree that even the anomalies have an idea of these prevalent pop culture beliefs of being the most important life source in the universe, and how the loop should carry on and how life is just a circle.

Maybe that's how it goes,

You start with "Life is a circle"

And you end with "Life is forced into a circle"

But are we really it?

Are we as far as it gets?

It looks like it. Maybe all this pondering is over nothing, maybe I'm on to something. But how will anyone ever know? What can any one even do about it. It's not like the world is eager to change.

The Game, a splendid Fincher psych thriller, made a perfect point of what the idea of leading a good life is all about, a meaningful life.

"Don't ask what the object of the Game is. Figuring that out IS the object of the Game."

Maybe figuring out where we're all headed to, while blending in of course, in every which way that may suit you, your pretentiousness, is the whole point of leading a full life, but there is no need for that speech, it's been said and done.

Did definitely fall unto deaf ears, because there isn't really much of a difference in their actual life emanating influence that I see, people I know really acknowledge the fact that these ideologies exist but they don't really run by the same virtues, they prefer to mingle with everybody else, and be the right type of person,

Guilt, pleasure, envy, and every other sin aside.

A harmless life?

But does a job constitute that?

Why?

Why am I entitled to contribute to a society that is any more interested in me as another ketchup bottle that went empty the last time they were out at a food joint.

But this doesn't come to parenting, parents are as devoted as anything can ever be, a little too devoted to their offspring at times and not really knowing or having the assurance of doing a good job, and when to just let them figure it out themselves. But guidance actually does help anybody, however guidance past the unknown is really just "taking the path often traveled".

Maybe it is these constraints by the gigantic crowd or cattle that hordes onward along this often traveled path in such large numbers. You actually end up under the fine polished shoe of one that somehow got into that higher niche of life. The luxury, okay like it or not, everything is about the luxury, or reaching that income level to afford to be that luxurious. It also depends on knowledge of the existence of such forms of luxury.

Unagi, the awareness thing.

Or Zanshin.