Ridiculous Things Which Are Life Changing, At Little Pause.
By: Ruchi Doctor
Tags: Life, Habit Building, Creativity, Success

God’s world of peace, happiness and contentment.

Ridiculous Things Which Are Life Changing, At Little Pause.

It is a Miltonian thought that they also serve who stand and wait, thus they too have a place in God’s world of peace, happiness and contentment.

Mark Twain, the uncrowned prince of wit had counseled, “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Indeed, there is no need to go with the Johns. You do not have to prove anything by being one with the majority. You might be pawning your identity and with that your right to be happy and contended. It is a great learning to just stand on a busy cross road or on one of the floors of a mall, on a station, in a bank, in a café, or in any play ground or fair, and watch people pass by. Much is learnt sans any effort by just looking at them, with their gait, with their mannerism, with their attire, with their laughter, with their rage and what not. It just reiterates Desmond Morris. Morris, “You feel the people.” Much before Debbi Millaman, the paradigm that imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring….was a rage among successful and happy souls. This leads us to a very pertinent thought that human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains — daisy chains — of interactivity. …

All along the road of their success all great people had their silly traits that made their life fulfilling and at the same time colorful. Einstein was mostly disheveled and was an ace violinist; the great mathematician philosopher of twentieth century Bertrand Russell had penned his masterpiece in ‘Praise of Idleness and had strongly stressed, “All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

When of my friend by mistake wore her vest wrong, my professor commented, “Only intelligent and courageous people could do such ridiculous things.” There are many vagaries indulged by many great people, like Lani Beloso’s ‘Period Piece’ is literally that, a work of art, created from her menstrual flow, Steve Spazuk painted with soot from candle or kerosene lamp. Mozart very much loved to be a cat, Elvis loved sponge bath and DMX literally collected bugs, Beethoven would count his beans to make perfect coffee and insisted to have exactly 60 beans, exactly, while Louis Armstrong loved to gift laxatives to his fans, and to top of all, the notorious B. I. G. was a huge prankster.

The really ridiculous thing which is life-changing is, at little pauses in life, when we need rejuvenation like revisit moments in our past by watching a music video on YouTube. Going back in a memory lane to see old photographs and also eating 95% dark chocolate which has very little sugar and bitterness in taste. Little personal time travel, back in time and a place earlier in our life that is rich in emotion and it’s magically easy to do and it takes almost nothing at all. Paraj, a teen in my apartment goes to school and before getting in her school bus she takes a picture of blossoming flower and posts it on her Instagram wall. When I observe this, I recall a book by C.S.Lewis, “The Great Divorce” in which the character after death sees flowers as blobs of color and his spirit guide tells really looked at them when were alive.