Xcuse Me...... I Beg To Differ!!

"An idle mind is a devil's workshop !"......

This is an oft- repeated quote that I've been hearing ever since my lower classes when I'd a lil' chapter on it in my moral science textbook..... well, i really think the time's now come to think out of the box and ponder over the quote......

I beg to differ !!.....

The human mind isn't a mean machine ; it too needs a break from the cut-throat competition around it. Darwin may have coined the term ' survival of the fittest', but what we fail to understand from this, is that we humans are engaged in an eternal struggle among ourselves for space both knowingly and unknowingly . Instead we are a race of people that portrays ourselves as the champions of the wild and subject innumerable mice, monkeys, guinea pigs and what-nots to series of goddamn experiments .... what these seek out to achieve in the name of science and humanity is utterly debatable and suspicious but let's drive out this whole lot of conspiracy theories from our minds.

We slug it out in a world where personal space is the least cared-for commodity.
We are driven by our needs that mulitply exponentially with every passing second of our existence......c'mon where's the place for a lil' peace , or rather a lil' break from the mad rat race that occupies every moment of our lives ? Where's the happiness , where're the smiles , where've all the good Samaritans gone ? Aren't we living in a glasshouse.....aren't we living out a puppet-show? ..... Others' opinions matter a lot to us... but where has all the individuality gone? Why is it that our first and foremost priority is what others think about us ?

Our lives are indeed driven by farcical plots... We are a busy race , constantly chugging it along..... But hasn't all the monotony reached a crescendo ?...... The world's always been partial to the go-getters and the doors of opportunity are always shut for the "idlers" and romantics..... I suspect a bit of nepotism involved here as the go-getters've always tried to encourage more of their ilk ...all this happening while the idlers are left to sulk further...!

What charm is left in this world if it's teeming with these 'busybees' ?........ The world needs a break.....it needs to slow down...... lets not brandish swords at the 'idlers' and call them servants of the Temptor.... Keats, Shelley,Coleridge,Tennyson,Wordsworth and even the great Bard himself, all have been 'idlers'...... If these towering colossus of literature hadn't been romantics , what beauty would have been there in this great language ?

Agreed, the world may need it's workaholics, but it needs a fair share of idlers as well!
So, folks, let's not deride these magnificent and often enigmatic breed of people in terms of the work they put in , but laud them for the sheer essence and vigour that they infuse into the world around them..... And, the first step towards creating such an evenly balanced world lies not in moral refinement but rather in scrapping that lil' chapter in the aforementioned moral science textbook ! Old habits die hard.....so atleast let the generation-Y wake up to the truth !

Way to go, all ye "idlers" out there........

(errrr....well, almost quite so....... !! )