In the midst of my RF lecture today, I had a thought...I had just read a book on peepers so this all may be an aftermath of what I had read. I don't know why but I was trying to find out what was going on in the minds of other people. I looked at them, I concentrated on their faces, I tried to read them. But beyond what I already I know about them, and beyond what I have conjured of them from their past actions or behaviour or how they have projected themselves, I knew nothing about any of them. And I realised how totally dependent we were on the expressions of the physical self when it came to knowing others. Why could not I hear besides the "me" thinking hard and the "my"questioning mind, "my friend" sitting just next to me thinking...Is it because right from the day we gain consciousness we all concentrate on the word "me" rather than the word "us". I read somewhere that we actually experience pain when we see others being hurt .. it is some mimic neurons doing the trick or something but our other very inteligent part of the brain tells us that we are yet to sense any pain. Is this the reason why we turn a blind eye to the sorrow of other people, is this the reason why we cheat on others without caring about the hurt that we cause them, is this the reason why we fail to feel the pain of anyone not a part of my self...May be the answer lies beyond our capabilities, may be it is something we shall never be able to find...But then is the answer so important that we, deterred by the fact that we cannot find any answer to this do not even try to look beyond the obvious...that we do not even try to feel what the other person is feeling...


I know it is too much to ask of ourself to put others before ourself...but maybe it is reasonable enough for the shrewdest of us all to atleast think for the rest of the world other than "me" before doing something....