SCHIZOPHRENIC

            
        It is great to watch great movies time and again especially when there not much good movies around made in the current times. So I watched the movie “A Beautiful Mind”, the biographic film made on the life of the famous Nobel Laureate John Nash ( a schizophrenic), again. Surprisingly it gave me a new perspective, a new thought.

Schizophrenia, as defined by the Encarta dictionary is “psychiatric disorder with symptoms of withdrawal into self: a severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into the self”. Does this ring a bell? It rang for me!”           Does not the meaning sound vaguely similar to that of INDIFFERENCE? Every day we read the newspapers filled with stories of horrors. Statistics reveal rising levels of violence, poverty, rape, and all sorts of criminal activity. In our everyday lives we see undisciplined people violate rules framed for public good, we break rules and build excuses for it. To all this what do we do? Remain silent spectators? No, we have become blind to all this. We don’t care for anyone else. They are not our priorities. Some service minded people will take care of it!           Wow!!! SERVICE what a word!! What a beautifully disguised excuse! We have given up on our human feelings and hid ourselves in our own tiny worlds and ensure every day that by no means our comforts are degrading, and that is all we care about. A Gandhi, a Mother Teresa or people like them will do whatever necessary to alleviate the problems of the world. They are the ones born for service; we are born for pleasures or pressures of our daily lives.          Our definitions of reality and the reality as such do not coincide a lot of times. A lot of what we believe are what we desperately want to believe, not facts. As long as our realities remain highly flavoured by our fantasies there is no big hope for a great future. Until we take good care of TODAY, there is no reason why TOMORROW should be better.           We share a common planet and it is our common responsibility. And this responsibility demands that we all get ourselves cured of our insensitive approach to the problems around and participate in making the world better in small ways and big so that we have a good today and a better tomorrow.