Tum jo hasti ho, saara mausam, muskuraatha hain,
Kailyan khilthi hain, saara aalam, gungunaatha hain.
Thum jo hasti ho, har sitara, jhilmilaatha hain,
Tere dil ka sheher khushi se jagmagaatha hain.
Dekho kabhi, rona nahin, mujh ko rulaao naaa..
Me? Whats me?
I was listening to the song "arabu nade" (film: Thottal Poo Malarum). One of the lines in the song goes like: "Konjam kozhuppu, konjam thimiru, enakkum irukku anbu thozhi". These words set off a chain of thoughts, and hence this post.
If someone is haughty and self-obsessed, will he/she be able to observe this fact about themselves? In other words, is an impartial objective assessment of oneself ever possible? This is one of those questions, amongst others, which have made me think a lot, with no satisfactory answers.
If its indeed possible, whats the validity of the observations? At any given point of time, one is just the sum total of his/her own set of thoughts-ideas-conceptions-emotions. And what appears ok to someone might not seem ok to someone else. And this degree of inclination need to vary just binarily - it should rather be considered a spectrum (its not discrete, but continuous). So, first of all, is absolute objectivity ever possible at all?
Coming back to the theme, one's objective assessment of oneself: I think its possible, because, I think i can see myself objectively. A few things that i do, have done, i know they are stupid/bad/wrong etc. And there is one more important lesson that i've learnt: never to trust myself. Something which appears good to me now, might appear bad tomorrow and vice versa. This has happened not once or twice but numerous times in the past and has led to very grave disconcerts. I'm always wrong.
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