Estranged from Reason

God must have been a great engineer to design such an intricate entity as human beings. One life seems short to understand the behavior of individuals and its takes a lot of effort to realize and create patterns originating from a person’s thought process.

Based on my interactions with people around me, I have come to believe that most of us have a thought process that doesn’t even originate from our mind. The seeds of such thoughts are mostly sown in someone else’s mind as per their will but are reaped in our mind. There seems to be a herd behavior that prominently drives us into drawing a line in the sand, curtailing an introduction of rationality in our own thought process. What follows is the formation of a mass opinion that is not our own and we start considering it our prerogative to broadcast it with such confidence as if, it’s one of our own thought. Thus we, once trapped in other’s opinions, start trapping others resulting in creating a bigger trap called alienated opinion trap (AOT).

We live in a society and it’s impossible for us to be ignorant to others around us. While we do have our own thought process, sometimes when we find ourselves confused in a situation, it becomes easy for us to follow the actions / suggestions of other people around us. While it’s still justified as long as we have rational reason behind following other people’s actions, it becomes disastrous when we accept their opinion without seeking the logic behind it. This, is my sense, is the biggest mistake anyone can make, leading a life of a robot controlled by others.

The biggest irony is that the people entangled in AOT don’t even realize their own irrational state of mind and the way they broadcast it, poses a bigger threat to the society. Soon, this alienated opinion becomes a stereotype, a part of everyone’s life and a semblance of normality for the society.

We, as independent individuals must learn to free ourselves from the shackles we have created around us. We must not allow ourselves to become so vulnerable as to let others exploit our sense of existence. God has given uniqueness to all of us and we must maintain it till the end of our lives.

The only righteous way of living is the one that we decide for ourselves and we must always keep our mind stable and our weapons ready to take on anyone who’s a part of AOT and who tries to impose even a slightest piece of their estrangedness over us.