Dont let the wine get warm!

Hola,

Bet you are wondering why I put the subject as it is. Well, frankly to admit that its something that set me thinking today about the societal influences on behaviour, and especially on what we call being cultured or sophisticated. The people closest to this complication of civilized society are those who adopt it and those who shun it. The latter group comprises of those rebels, who just want to go against what is socially accepted as a higher level of living, or just being well off in material terms.

Let me explain the metaphor of the wine. You know that the proper way of holding wine glasses is to hold it by their bottom base between your thumb and palm. Never mind if you didnt know, I got to know it at 24 years of life and it didnt make huge difference to my happiness or popularity. Hmm. . so a wine connoiseur friend of mine was explaining to another senior person how it kept the wine from getting warm. My mind went ballistic at the point. People were dying of hunger around the world, did it really matter if your wine was 1.5 degrees warmer than what it should be. Probably am being a little harsh, but the point I wanted make was that, there are some things that we think are so fine and refined that we forget that they remain small in the larger scheme of things. As long as we can treat things with the attention they deserve at a point in time, and know how significant they are for the lives of the 6.5 billion people in the world, I think we have been fair. All this, assuming that we as passionate human beings want to be fair.

Hmm. . guess I am feeling philanthropic today. So am donating some of my mindspace and throughts to the less privileged. But frankly, I just thought how funny it would be to suddenly lose one of the many things we took for being granted to us. Sight, sound, speech, physical well-being etc. etc. Sadly enough, even the dramatism of this extreme thought doesn'tm motivate me to do the things I ought to. Because the the rationality of the human mind if overwhlemed by two things. One - Convenience and two - passion. Probably one is the anti-thesis of the other, or plainly put, they are mutually incompatible.

Guess will leave the thought at that. I need to think more on this as well.

for now,
adios,
satish