Euphoric Travails
As of now, I am absolutely thrilled about this name.
Pleasure and Pain, according to me are the two facets of a universal coin, from Godse to Gandhi, from India to Africa, everything-every second one experiences are just one or the other of the two facets. There are middle instances also, but for they are not of much significance, as they just reflect stagnancy in this otherwise dynamic world.
We will come back to the topics of "The Middle Way" and "Dynamic World", but as for now we'll deal with the two extremes or the two facets of the coin per se.
Pleasure and Pain, the two faces seeming unrelated share the same umbilical cord, the question that arises here however is, how? And how is it related to my being excited about the name of this blog.
Let us just begin by having a look at the dictionary definitions of the two,
Travail - A work especially of a laborious or painful nature.
Euphoria - A feeling of well-being or elation.
Life, as I see is made of experiences, good or bad depends upon perception and the time. Hence, we might as well say, it’s like traveling on a road where one can see that there is light, but still not enough for you to make sure where you are actually headed. On this road, there will be specks where you will not have even light enough to stick to the road, coming off and coming back on; and there would be specks where you would just be overwhelmed by your luck that you can see miles in advance. Well, that's how I see life.
Now every part of that road is like Travail, even the parts where there is adequate light for you to plan your way ahead because you know this light is ending at the oblivion. And at the parts, where the light is actually low, it’s a feeling of hope that I might be headed towards light, is a feeling of Euphoria.
While reading this, you might feel that it’s actually the opposite; but that is what I am trying to convey here; that after every run, after every storm, that first sigh of relief, that gust of air in your lungs, that's a feeling of well-being and vice-versa. Hence, Pain and Pleasure; Euphoria and Travails are distant cousins, who albeit separated in the eyes of the world, enjoy each others company.
I might as well conclude by saying, I don't mind my life being a set of travails, one after the other, because the feeling of motion, being able to walk on this road is a high, a state of well-being, a euphoria in itself.
As of now, I am absolutely thrilled about this name.
Pleasure and Pain, according to me are the two facets of a universal coin, from Godse to Gandhi, from India to Africa, everything-every second one experiences are just one or the other of the two facets. There are middle instances also, but for they are not of much significance, as they just reflect stagnancy in this otherwise dynamic world.
We will come back to the topics of "The Middle Way" and "Dynamic World", but as for now we'll deal with the two extremes or the two facets of the coin per se.
Pleasure and Pain, the two faces seeming unrelated share the same umbilical cord, the question that arises here however is, how? And how is it related to my being excited about the name of this blog.
Let us just begin by having a look at the dictionary definitions of the two,
Travail - A work especially of a laborious or painful nature.
Euphoria - A feeling of well-being or elation.
Life, as I see is made of experiences, good or bad depends upon perception and the time. Hence, we might as well say, it’s like traveling on a road where one can see that there is light, but still not enough for you to make sure where you are actually headed. On this road, there will be specks where you will not have even light enough to stick to the road, coming off and coming back on; and there would be specks where you would just be overwhelmed by your luck that you can see miles in advance. Well, that's how I see life.
Now every part of that road is like Travail, even the parts where there is adequate light for you to plan your way ahead because you know this light is ending at the oblivion. And at the parts, where the light is actually low, it’s a feeling of hope that I might be headed towards light, is a feeling of Euphoria.
While reading this, you might feel that it’s actually the opposite; but that is what I am trying to convey here; that after every run, after every storm, that first sigh of relief, that gust of air in your lungs, that's a feeling of well-being and vice-versa. Hence, Pain and Pleasure; Euphoria and Travails are distant cousins, who albeit separated in the eyes of the world, enjoy each others company.
I might as well conclude by saying, I don't mind my life being a set of travails, one after the other, because the feeling of motion, being able to walk on this road is a high, a state of well-being, a euphoria in itself.
posted by N at 12:32 pm
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