hEn oR eGg Posted by VNb , Monday, March 22, 2010 at 3/22/2010 11:08:00 PM, in

"Empathy doesn't necessarily guarantee sympathy to one in need"

Candidly I have had an over doze of phrases like-"Success isn't important but significance is","Just work hard and success will follow"  and so on..Even the great motivational gurus like Robin Sharma have laid emphasis on phrases like "success is important but significance is even better".

But as a perspective of a layman,practical is what,that works more often than not and the real time
examples that are set in the recent past are the most effective ways of setting one's belief in such seemingly vague concepts.

I am not an advocate of success neither do i perceive significance behind success superficial in any belittling way.
To come bluntly, as an Indian I have seen enough quandaries,turmoils all around and pandemonium and even more significantly the ever accruing poor rather extremely wretched poor in explosive numbers.

Well till the time an Indian layman remains in picture(rather lingers!!), the story always revolves around these two magical words-'Success' & 'Significance'.Always creating a catch22 alike the "Hen and Egg" story, where it's still a myth whether which one of the two existed earlier than the other.
It would always be an anachronistic anecdote and a fairly colorful one most of the times.

But the 'White and Black' cinema starts kicking off when a poor living and dwelling in slums and filthy spheres of this planet(yeppi that same planet whose considerable part is occupied in opulence) comes into picture. And now the play-the play on those two magical words, suddenly shifts and crosses those sinuous and tortuous paths,depleting a player and crushing it to non-existence.It's a plain game of a plain Jane, who doesn't seem to understand what significance mean.


Now i ask those so called 'wow' phrases - what would success mean to somebody who can't even perceive significance or may be how would significance be defined,where success by and large is undefined in their ever waning lives,where pestilences have been taking care of the physicals and pittances ruining the mentalities,where ruptures don't spread vibes and celebrations where are a mere shift of honed worries.


         'I urge you to give it a serious thought'