Can one define Idealism?
I always believed idealism is achieved on a relative measure, meaning we role model ourselves against someone and aim at achieving idealism benchmarking ourselves against him. That Him most often than not happens to be someone in our close ambit. And in most probabilities our dad. He has, on a revisit defined his idealism from someone else. But although we egoistically defend our thoughts and opinions derived out of our so called idealism this idealism actually is a selfishness that flows in our brain, that we have to defend someone we trusted so much and made him our idol, forgetting to question our self on the act we performed. And on delving more into it we have actually thrusted our views which are more self centered to our outlook on so many around us.
This is a paradox… we start to believe in our definition of idealism but when we get doubts of whether our definition is right we egoistically defend our thoughts and stick to our definition irrespective of the guilt and differences in our mind. Have we achieved idealism here?
Idealism is something that is always unreachable. We fail to understand that we lack the maturity to realize so many things which are complicated. We form a conception and satiate our self that we have achieved perfection. Some feel to be simple and modest is being ideal but in some other person’s purview he thinks I am not ideal when I don’t spend and live to what I earn. But rarely are people seen in the bridge. Either people are on this side of the bank or the other side. So it’s the fight between the conservative principle of living and the opulent way of living that will give a definitive definition to idealism.
Let us now explore both conservatism and opulence…
Opulence to me is inflation. It might be ideal to you on a short term or long term. Short term if your income will not be steady and reliable and long term if you have a very reliable hoarding of wealth which will last until your death. But if you continually spend you rise your living style almost everyday and it slowly inflates in multiples. If you spent 100 rupees today to live an opulent life then when 100 days from now you need 1000 rupees a day to enrich your opulent living. But remember anything that goes up has to come down. Inflation as an economic term affects on a long term. You have your Son coming who will not have even 10 rupees a day to spend.
Here you definitely were ideal (in your own definition) until your death but if the son of an opulent raja begs for his day’s living…. Have we achieved idealism here?
The other way of living in Conservative living. Conservative is a word in itself which is very ambiguous. It is a word which is confining the individual of desires. Irrespective of the measure of money an individual possesses if he believes he should live by his principles he is conservative. Conservative people are the ones who are most ridiculed and mocked at. For the Son father seems a conservative if he saves beyond his requirements. But he is guilty of his past opinions about his father when his father hands over a cheque of 5 lakhs when the son is on a dire need. He starts to think what effort it would have taken of me to have saved 5 lakhs in spite of having earned so much every month. His allen solly shirts and levis jeans which he loved more than his dad add to his guilt. Have he achieved idealism here? Or did his father ? . I believe neither did his father achieve because unless he effected to change the lifestyle of his son his 5 lakhs will be forgotten in a span of months.
That’s why I said Idealism flows. Both in the negative and positive way……
I always believed idealism is achieved on a relative measure, meaning we role model ourselves against someone and aim at achieving idealism benchmarking ourselves against him. That Him most often than not happens to be someone in our close ambit. And in most probabilities our dad. He has, on a revisit defined his idealism from someone else. But although we egoistically defend our thoughts and opinions derived out of our so called idealism this idealism actually is a selfishness that flows in our brain, that we have to defend someone we trusted so much and made him our idol, forgetting to question our self on the act we performed. And on delving more into it we have actually thrusted our views which are more self centered to our outlook on so many around us.
This is a paradox… we start to believe in our definition of idealism but when we get doubts of whether our definition is right we egoistically defend our thoughts and stick to our definition irrespective of the guilt and differences in our mind. Have we achieved idealism here?
Idealism is something that is always unreachable. We fail to understand that we lack the maturity to realize so many things which are complicated. We form a conception and satiate our self that we have achieved perfection. Some feel to be simple and modest is being ideal but in some other person’s purview he thinks I am not ideal when I don’t spend and live to what I earn. But rarely are people seen in the bridge. Either people are on this side of the bank or the other side. So it’s the fight between the conservative principle of living and the opulent way of living that will give a definitive definition to idealism.
Let us now explore both conservatism and opulence…
Opulence to me is inflation. It might be ideal to you on a short term or long term. Short term if your income will not be steady and reliable and long term if you have a very reliable hoarding of wealth which will last until your death. But if you continually spend you rise your living style almost everyday and it slowly inflates in multiples. If you spent 100 rupees today to live an opulent life then when 100 days from now you need 1000 rupees a day to enrich your opulent living. But remember anything that goes up has to come down. Inflation as an economic term affects on a long term. You have your Son coming who will not have even 10 rupees a day to spend.
Here you definitely were ideal (in your own definition) until your death but if the son of an opulent raja begs for his day’s living…. Have we achieved idealism here?
The other way of living in Conservative living. Conservative is a word in itself which is very ambiguous. It is a word which is confining the individual of desires. Irrespective of the measure of money an individual possesses if he believes he should live by his principles he is conservative. Conservative people are the ones who are most ridiculed and mocked at. For the Son father seems a conservative if he saves beyond his requirements. But he is guilty of his past opinions about his father when his father hands over a cheque of 5 lakhs when the son is on a dire need. He starts to think what effort it would have taken of me to have saved 5 lakhs in spite of having earned so much every month. His allen solly shirts and levis jeans which he loved more than his dad add to his guilt. Have he achieved idealism here? Or did his father ? . I believe neither did his father achieve because unless he effected to change the lifestyle of his son his 5 lakhs will be forgotten in a span of months.
That’s why I said Idealism flows. Both in the negative and positive way……
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