Perspectives.....

Its raining in Saiha, someone would say it happens everyday almost for last 6 months, so suddenly why I am noticing it. I would say, today I am with myself thats why I am listening what is happening in my surrounding. The reason why I am with myself is I am down with cold and a little bit sensation in the forehead which in common parlance we call headache, so obviously whatever never mattered to me started mattering.

I was talking about rains. This simple instance of rain can have so many meanings for different persons that will be difficult to imagine. Lets see...

For me at this stage it means as if someone is hitting my brain with a hammer when the GCI sheet which provides cover to me and my family against the vagaries of nature start making sound.... I remember few days back the same sound on rain over tin roof made me feel to dissolve like tiny drops in the eyes of the loved.

Same tiny drops today i saw hanging on the spider net...another wonderful creation.

This same raindrops on similar kind of tin sheets must be making the life of the house-owner miserable if it start making holes in the roof or if the earth below the house start moving down in the process of land/mud slides.

These rains in Delhi means trouble for the Commonwealth games, and a question of life or death for those living on the banks of yamuna fearing flood.

For a young madly in love these rains will become inspiration and for the doomed it becomes inspiration for the end.

Same for a farmer it becomes a source of great happiness and hope if it is before sowing season, and a source of doom if it comes at the wrong time.

This same event of rain in a similar area can have so many meanings and relevance for different persons. This is what we call "PERSPECTIVE".

I feel a whole book on psychology, philosophy etc can be written on this topic. I am not going to deal with its philosophical meaning but its simple understanding in day to day life.

I have myself recently experienced how a simple action from one's point of view can become quite complicated from someone else's point of view. IF the perspectives are different then differences and misunderstanding creeps in. 

Our lives are nothing but a combination or net of simple and slanted lines.... and these are defined by perspectives. We can not make our actions look favorable and acceptable from all perspectives but definitely interpersonal understanding of each others' perspective will make life more enjoyable and meaningful both at the individual level and at the societal level and it applies to nations, communities..... everyone.

(Based on my Random Thoughts)