‘Hitherto shalt thou come. But no farther’

‘Hitherto shalt thou come. But no farther’

So while studying in a school all of us are taught how to read those maps with lines or boundaries separating those mountains from rivers and countries and states from each other. also there are certain invisible lines drawn marking out the areas we are allowed to go and areas for which we need permission. And then comes the forbidden morality, ‘you have certain duties and responsibilities for your own country, your own family. Visit them all if you have to, but it is your own domesticity that you have to adore’. And than there are those international obligations, the settled ones are allowed to reach anywhere, but those from uncertain births can’t cross these shores.

So one tries to read about them all and explore bit more. But then there are accepted notions and the limits to which world can let you explore. Even the R.T.I;s have certain ways, certain loopholes. Imagine you ask the reason for a specific proceeding. They reply that is the way it happens in reading. So you divert your head to certain other explorations- Those cliffs and valleys in your own country, maybe your own home’s intensities. But then, there are limits too. It is all a cluster of black holes, beyond which you can’t get through. Reason of your life or that unwelcome strife, the way you feel happy at times, the way artificiality glitters – everything simply exists as if it has to be that way. You can’t question it, or deep in prisons of your own confusions – they will make you sit.

Then there is that woman with all her alluring ecstasy, she comes so close to pull you out of your own world, she would even lie in your lap all curled – but naah!! She has her own limits. You can please and tease her, expect no more. She might do a favour or two , but to your eternal wishes – she has no cure. She can’t promise you with her presence forever. She can’t even say that you would always be her better. She has many choices and she likes to explore them all. She has her own limits, her own principals – it is within those notions she explores.

Then there are those fixed rules of your work profiles. You need to reach at a certain time, have to behave in black and white. You can work as much as you want , but be innovative – oh no!!! They need mechanic humans – how dare you say, ‘ lets explore’. Innovation is a word in cinema i guess. But i see almost the same stories on same shores. Same emotional perversities, same stories imposed. Yes, there are few fascinations too – those stoires of some huge loot, or may be an alien or two jumps into the scenario – fulfilling all our selfish wishes before vanishing to its own scenario.

Then there are novels written too – on how to be different from the crew. You have to be happy to be different . gotta believe in something that is attained by few. You have to attain some confidence, but yes for some job or other trivial thing in lieu. And yes, you are not allowed to let yourself loose while in a society, it has to be your inner control, your personal curfew. Why give others a chance to control you. Control yourself before anyone gets a chance to turn you to crew.

And then they say, you are given one life – explore to the fullest – and become someone different from the crew.

 Written by - Mystical Wanderer