from the Crow's Nest ...

“Forward-Thrust: 2012”

Caring a fig about Morality:

"The question of morality stems from the society and culture we are brought up in."

From a metaphorical point-of-view, the same steel-o-glass building will be seen as an architectural marvel by a city-boy. To the small-town girl, it’s claustrophobic, maybe brazenly show-off(ish) !!

Maybe the other way round too …

Thus, while we keep making off-hand comments and gestures about “How could he .. !!” or “Even she too … ??”, we fail to realize the dialectics, the dichotomy and the tight-rope that develops in the meanwhile.

 The same single mother gets a warm welcome in one corner of the city; she gets a cold shoulder or a frown in another part of the city. Interestingly, almost as a corollary, it is to be noticed that the city also grows up in diff. directions and frequencies over time. The south part may not grow up exactly with the same mindset and logical congruencies like the northern belt of the city.

And when we dissect a situation on the altar of morality under the cross of Society, we must keep this same above point in mind, of the same Society growing up in diff. time-frames zones and mentality. What is crime or unusual to a section, can maybe an eye-opener to another group of people.

What we need as collective souls is the need to open up and let more to come in. When we put dark glasses on, it becomes difficult to see the sunnier side of things. We need to walk in the other person’s shoes and gauge the condition prevailing on the other side.

We can have this as our new-year resolution. Maybe as one of the resolutions.