The Old are dying away. The 21st century is in its first decade, and the weaning of the old from the new has begun. Nature has taken over and the new cycle has begun. Like peeling of the skin is painful at first, it does reveal the new, fresh clean skin underneath. But the process is,nevertheless, painful.
My grandfather told me before his death that the old are unproductive. But I disagree. The old are our moral support. A link. You feel a certain continuity.
There is guidance. There is someone to look up to. Someone to tell you when you are wrong.
Now we have to totter on our own feet and find our way in the darkness.
The gloom made deeper since we never thought that death would so suddenly pull our loved ones, our iconic leaders away so quickly, so suddenly. There is no time to gasp for breath.
This year started with the double deaths of my grandparents. 10 days after each other, they simply left us all alone. Then my ailing aunt passed away suddenly enough. That is on my personal front. The year started with deaths. One after the other.
Steve Jobs died last week on the 6th of October . Now Jagjit Singh died this morning.
Steve Jobs was a great innovator and a great marketeer. He knew that publicity of any kind is good publicity. The superb combination of innovative products and controversy courting publicity made Apple and him the forefront of technological advancement.
Jagjit Singh was a wonderful singer. He brough ghazals to the common man. His heart rending renditions and poetic ethos conveyed itself through his voice and made anyone who listened to his songs go into another plane. Albeit a pretty gloomy and sad one. But there is happiness and sorrow - his tended to be more sorrowful.
One has to give allowance to personal tragedies. Losing ones teenage son to a road accident makes you eligible for such sorrowful songs. Enjoying them is our choice. His songs were more philosophical and tended to convey the message that though sadness comes, we have to trudge the load and move on... life is such.
A beautiful message.
I suppose there is a lot of wealth in this message. We need to move on. We need to make newer icons and learn from our predecessors. In this Aquarian age, where we are lucky enough to be the radicals we want to be. Let us shrug the useless old ways, but take on the meaningful values they left behind and build our future on such ideals that help us make ourselves and our world better.
Like Steve Jobs said, “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
After all, Nature and Change deserve...
Respect!!
