HOW TO REFORM

Well, there have been words out from centuries about various social reforms and various social movements took place to make this true. The point of talking about social reformation or social reform, in general, is to realize that we always need it. The surroundings and habitats we live in getting turned around in those directions which we wish it shouldn’t have, and we constantly practice to tackle and reform the situation putting things back on track. This might sound bogus but we indeed needed social reform from the beginning and we need social reform now, and by the time passes our need for the reform is increased geometrically from the last time we had had one. Whatever one does, whoever country starts it, it takes a great struggle to ignite the reform and even more blood and sweat to put everything in its place. After some time the reform is visible in the society in patches. Every mentality doesn’t accept the change and stay rigid with their ideals, sometimes these ideals are so rogue and detrimental that it causes major harms in society born out of contradiction.

It is said that “Change is the law of nature.” After witnessing so much modernization, we still have a very tiny amount of knowledge about nature. I make this statement because of our instincts towards nature which is of overpowering it. We like to think that we can control things around us, we could alter what we want and reverse what we have done but that isn’t the wise knowledge about nature. Nature governs us and we are just a phase for it, we will pass but nature will stand till eternity. But with our shooting in the dark about the changing behaviour we got the right thing. Everything changes and everything keeps on changing, this is a proven fact. If you see something still or not changing it is just relative and you don’t have a greater picture yet. Whenever we talk about saving earth or nature that is a total lie, we tell to ourselves. The truth we need to acknowledge is that we need to save ourselves not the earth. Earth has been on its place for billions of years and it will be there in the place for another billion years but what is at stake is human existence, it could get wiped out because that is what we fear and talk about saving the earth. We are not saving the earth; we are saving the liveability of humans on the surface of the earth. Nature always changes and if you won't change and you always point your fingers towards the ecosystem in which you live, that will be a failed analogy to be followed. What you need for a change is to point fingers towards yourselves, to rebuild your thought process. To acknowledge what needs to be altered to bring the desired change and that is the crux of this text. How one could reform socially, and how everything starts with oneself.

When you try to bring change in the social form and wish for social reforms as a tool for betterment one needs to think about how change works and how the change is effective and lasts for long. Let us draw a diagram to understand how change works and how to lay the bricks of change.

 “Be the change you wish to see in the world” The quote by Mahatma Gandhi solves a lot of trouble in explaining the diagram which I wish to draw before you. The quote asks you to become what you wish to see in the world but how simple is that to achieve and how complex is that to perceive, lets clear the air. Consider yourself as the unit of the world or your nation now let’s pick up a change or reform for which we have struggled and brought in the society or think that we have brought. Democracy would be a great example for the “change”, people have struggled and campaigned even lost their lives while fighting for the change but was it worth it? Does the change is prevalent in the current scenarios? To understand democracy and feel and celebrate it we must first bring democracy to ourselves If considering the nation as a whole of the society, the family would be the possible unit of the society. If you wish to establish democracy in your country or society you first need to establish in your home. You should strive for becoming democratic before you wish for a democratic system for your society. If your family has a monarch, if you support the monarchical basis at your home, it is seldom that your nation will ever reform to be democratic. Now If we consider the family as a whole, you are the unit of the family and of course the microunit of your society then there is the grave requirement to look for a change within yourself before looking in the society. What you build within yourself will be the projection of society. What you sow within yourself you will taste the ripening in the society, because you are what builds a society and your intent is the intent of the society. The reform about which we talk much should start from the very zero of ourselves, from the deep within of our hearts, from the chaotic minds we possess, from the serene silence we exhibit, from the love of our mothers, from the grace of our fathers, from where we started from where we will end. That will be what the real In-Quilab will look like, from there you could look into the endless revolutions, from where you could look upon the whole mankind, from where you could breathe for your life, from where you will find your soul. The reform will hold your hands and will flourish with you across the world. You will flow like an ocean of an idea, you won’t be stopped, you won’t be shaken, the reform which is needed will hail around the world.  

PERFECTION

“This is perfect,” she said on seeing the wristwatch I have gifted on her 21^st birthday. I said well that’s not quite something but she was hyped up to happiness in her extremities. It’s her way to take everything on the verge which lies on zenith. Simple emotion conveyed in a pious sense. She always has her way of smiling childishly. Her smile tells me that she would do anything to attain the happiness she has got and force me to believe that this has happened the very first time. Although I am aware of her beautiful expression of her thoughts and tend to be beaming in just a glimpse of it. The watch was nothing special as a gift that could erupt such an explosion of happiness. I have seen people gifting beautiful artwork, expensive dresses, and sometimes creating something with their own hands. But someone calling a gift perfect which has been bought and delivered through an e-commerce store might sound artificial. Well, to be more precise it might sound artificial in the absence of actual visual and audio. Her smile authored the title perfect on the watch as its been perfect since it was made. On seeing the watch and calling it perfect, she established a pure expression of happiness and satisfaction which added weight to the word and provided credibility to it. When I exclaim the word perfect, it isn’t satisfying to anybody including me. The word might make a good review of the situation but do not deliver justice for the word itself. Perfect needs something to be out of the world, which would excite us and catch our nerves. Her childish smile made me have a view of what perfect means.

For sake of understanding let us look to the phrase “Nothing is perfect”. It has gained so much fame that it would take sheer logic to make you all think in the other way. The main reason behind this phrase gaining fame and the word ‘perfect’ losing its essence is the generalization of the word.  Perfect has been extensively used in this trodden world by the people inhabiting who are bent under various conventions and pursuits they wish to carry out or are carrying out. Their eyes sparkle with the mere glimpse of goodness and positivity and they end up labeling them perfect. The degradation of the word resulted in facilitating the escape of its essence. Perfection now stood by the word “Ideal” and cast its effect on it. People then generalized “ideal” with “perfect” and it was about time that the words were used interchangeably. I have objections to befriending idealism with perfection. The thing which stings my eyes is the generalization of the word which has become much frequent that the meaning of “Ideal” and “Perfect” has started to feel the same. But that does not mean that “perfection” has any chance to stand with “ideal” because they just don’t belong to the same league. Words should speak for themselves and their meaning should stand in the ocean of words. I am sure that Perfect and perfection have the capability of safeguarding their existence.

 

The easy way to establish a fact about certain terminology is to first define it. It would help us examine its meaning in true senses. Perfection is considered an extra celestial thing that is out of our reach and to coverup for that we have made its connection to other words to justify its meaning in our world. The worst phase for the word started when people connected the word with its antonym and made them equivalent to each other. By doing this they not only derogated the meaning of “perfect” and its antonym “imperfect” but also the word “antonym” because “Antonym” was the term used to draw out complete antagonism in two words. If I cite an example for this, the phrase “imperfect is perfect” would completely satisfy my cause. In this phrase, imperfect is termed as perfect but why have we united both the words which antagonize each other.  I am aware of things that are conveyed by this phrase but aren’t there are other ways of saying it? Does that not degrade the word “perfect” as its antagonist is succeeding in its place? It's same as a story, which has only a villain who is considered as a hero by the audiences because the emotion and character played by the hero are unachievable by the audiences and they end up considering the hero as false illusion and invest their faith in the villain and make him a hero.

The scarcity of the actual feeling of “perfection” has made us consider that perfection doesn’t exist but that’s not the reality of words. Words are created to define something for the objective of perceiving by human minds. We should acknowledge that the world has so much good to offer and if we open up our hearts and search for perfection, we would surely find it. When we would find perfection, we will utter the word and that day we will realize that that’s real and the hero and the villain stand differently in every story. Spotting perfection in the world around us isn’t so much of a tough job. We are always around perfection; we just need to realize what’s perfect. We don’t need to use the word as euphoria but connect it with real emotions.

The watch which made her happy was not the emotions evoked out of materialism because the watch hasn’t had to offer much, but the bond which it depicted filled her heart with magnificent joy. The girl is always inviolable and she shows me with her light the meaning of perfection, she tells me with her eyes that perfect is real. She forces me to think that the heart of the father pounding with motherhood when he holds his child for the first time is perfect, the soldier in grief in the far of no man's land remembering his love is perfect, the smile of a newborn which isn’t laden with any worldly colors but which is pure as heaven is perfect. The golden soil which feeds us and the joy and life it gives to the reapers is perfect, the thing inside every one of us which is separating us with the inanimate is perfect. The feeling of life filling up our lungs with energy is perfect. Perfect is real and to seek perfection we must first acknowledge that it is already in existence.