It is painful to start questioning the most basic truth one has held rigidly for ages. What is more painful is the fact that under scrutiny and investigation this dearly held belief will disintegrate. Then what? Would other similarly held belief crumble if put to the same test? What happens when all we have held as sacred and beyond question just turn out to be myths? What if it turns out to be just one of the many prejudices held by people all over the world? Are we as human and superstitious at that, afraid to find out the truth and set it apart from the fable and myth told only to satisfy the gullible believer?
If all I believe in is to be put to the test, I am sure most of my stereotypic stands would be shattered. I am sure that there is no particular one way about a thing. There are always a different way to look at a thing or a person. The fact that we cannot distinguish distinctively between morally wrong and right says as much. But we don’t want to know this. It is not important as long as our sacred secrets and banal stands are supported by our own fears to go out and discover different.
It saddens because we not only hold onto this stand but most of the times try to recruit others or try and discount their stands on the basis of our own moral high ground. Naively we attest to this fact when most of us are not even on this group. I don’t know what I believe in this world, where what you might think is a good reason to do something turns out later to be a mistake, a mistake that you cannot afford to make.
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