My parents brought me up telling me stories about unnecessary rules and going by them, living on them..examining them piece by piece, and following them..there are people who believe in that kind of life.
yes, they've told me it's all rubbish.
it is.
i've heard that and laughed about it, a million times, hardly knowing how it affects each one of us.
as i'm growing up, i can see it everywhere.
the line between code of conduct/code of living and redtapism is anything but THIN.
imagine a law for inhaling. for walking. for eating. that's what the world seems to boil down to, at times !
there's paperwork for the most miniscule of things, a certain way you HAVE TO behave. a certain way you're cut and moulded against all your steadfast protests. a method you must conform to, and pledge to stand by !
and then you become a part of this sordid system. get into it, and grill the rest of the world, with the flow.
most of us don't mind it, though we hate it. and THAT is the attitude that nurtures something as dirty as unnecessary bureaucracy.
well, some of us manage to escape unharmed by that kind of living. Yet at the end of one decade, we can count these "some of us" with just our 10 fingers
Darling, sometimes rules are necessary. so we all don't go mad. so we don't lose track of progress. so that justice lasts.
But that's it.
somewhere along the way, rules lost their very purpose.
there are purposeless purposes.. unreasonable reasons
and anything important, ALWAYS involves redtapism. (my post-intern seniors know it best, right now)
redtapism was born with ego of foolish people who cannot take advantage of anything other than power or position to advance to superiority. Oh no.
sure there are a lot of people around here who are experiencing deja vous..
i'm not going ahead and asking why there are so many red tapes around here, the reason is clear.
modern feudalism at its pinnacle..hah !
it's actually a pretty good world that's making me want to go on, every minute.
i'm learning. So much !
yes, they've told me it's all rubbish.
it is.
i've heard that and laughed about it, a million times, hardly knowing how it affects each one of us.
as i'm growing up, i can see it everywhere.
the line between code of conduct/code of living and redtapism is anything but THIN.
imagine a law for inhaling. for walking. for eating. that's what the world seems to boil down to, at times !
there's paperwork for the most miniscule of things, a certain way you HAVE TO behave. a certain way you're cut and moulded against all your steadfast protests. a method you must conform to, and pledge to stand by !
and then you become a part of this sordid system. get into it, and grill the rest of the world, with the flow.
most of us don't mind it, though we hate it. and THAT is the attitude that nurtures something as dirty as unnecessary bureaucracy.
well, some of us manage to escape unharmed by that kind of living. Yet at the end of one decade, we can count these "some of us" with just our 10 fingers
Darling, sometimes rules are necessary. so we all don't go mad. so we don't lose track of progress. so that justice lasts.
But that's it.
somewhere along the way, rules lost their very purpose.
there are purposeless purposes.. unreasonable reasons
and anything important, ALWAYS involves redtapism. (my post-intern seniors know it best, right now)
redtapism was born with ego of foolish people who cannot take advantage of anything other than power or position to advance to superiority. Oh no.
sure there are a lot of people around here who are experiencing deja vous..
i'm not going ahead and asking why there are so many red tapes around here, the reason is clear.
modern feudalism at its pinnacle..hah !
it's actually a pretty good world that's making me want to go on, every minute.
i'm learning. So much !
2 comments:
Yeah.. I get what you're saying. The way I see it, the only rules that matter are the ones you make for yourself. After trial and error. And after consulting with your conscience. Love the title, btw.
I remember Irani Sir once saying "Rules are only for those who follow them." :P I wrote those words on the front page of my forensic notebook.
I don't agree that the line is thin. Every rule, as I see it, has come either through a foresight of an administration to close a loophole or through a damage control mechanism when something actually went wrong. The latter case is justified.. but the foresight ones might lead to, as you say, purposeless purposes ;).
The best example/justification I can give is having multiple redundant safety mechanisms in an airplane. and yet things go wrong sometimes! I am sure the engineers must be cribbing of why one would even require a certain useless module in the first place!
Human life is so vulnerable.. the best way to protect it is through cushioning and increasing accountability of others dealing with it.
oye, hows u been! writing so less and less!
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