ESSAY: THERE IS MORE PLEASURE IN J BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR THAN ON THE GROUND
BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR |
OUTLINES
1. Introduction.
2. One who knows how to build castles in the air gets the best thrill,
3. Achievements do not give us the joy which is proportionate
to our effort.
3. Fulfillment leads to frustration.
4. Period preceding success is that of tension.
5. Earthly people may hate day dreaming but only dreams give colour and joy to life.
6. Day dreams have super human powers.
7. Conclusion.
Man
is a pleasure loving animal. He wants diversity of enjoyments. His
intelligence has certainly enabled to get a much greater variety of
enjoyment that is open to animals. Music, poetry and science, football
and baseball and alcohol and cigarettes are some from which people of
different temperaments and mental make-up derive pleasure. There are
still others who undertake hazardous journeys on the uncharted ocean-.
Some of foolishly expose themselves to frost-bite and other inclemencies
of weather simply to be called conquerors of snowy peaks but the
thrill-which these practical men get fails to stir their soul. Even if
they simply profess, it transports them to some ethereal pleasure, no
sensible person who experienced the vast range of vicarious pleasures
would believe them. In fact he who knows how to build castles in the air
know what the secret of perennial pleasure is, and which never gives
one a feeling of satiety or frustration
Much has been said in praise
of the warriors who by their barbarian exploits conquered their
so-called invincible enemies. But is it not a fact that these conquerors
could never lead a life free from the fear of being over-run by some
braver and more crafty warrior or soldier. And this imaginary fear drove
them from one inhuman act to another? Did not Aurangzeb subject his
father and brothers to most inhuman treatment simply to become the
unchallenged emperor of India? Also they had cared to know how
unconquerable is the person
who handles sword in his dreamland where
no blood issued and where forces fall as easily a butterflies in a
young boy's net. Had they been contended with such conquests they might
have not got a few pages in history read by bespectacled scholars, they
would have, at least, remained unchallengeable masters of their domains.
After all what does it matter to a person whether people talk well or
had of him after- he is dead Then why expose ourselves to the smoky
hazardous battle-field? Is not our unconquerable tort which is not to be
defended by death dealing weapons better, it is in this world that
intrigues find little head way.
No doubt achievements give us a
sense of fulfillment and a feeling of joy. But this joy is seldom or
never in proportion to our efforts. Naturally all our plans and the
pains taken in executing them head to insignificant pleasure, Not only
that, This pleasure is not lasting. It is bound to result in frustration
if success in one achievement is not followed by another. A part from
that we may think that we have done something remarkable but others
might not This will prick the bubble of our pride and pleasure; the
appreciation is whole hearted it might be only of section of people
whose opinions we value the least, Then the fear of not being up to the
mark also dissipate the pleasure we are likely to get from doing
something concrete. And the period preceding our success is a period of
great tension, in fact what we do by building castles on the earth is
not to please overselves but to please others. We work as salves and not
as masters of our souls. If still some think that there is no pleasure
in idle dreams let them think so, It is a matter of opinion, and if we
claim to be civilize we should not grudge them
the right to entertain
worn ideas. Above all pleasure is completely a personal affair. When it
becomes a community affair, as the pleasure from concrete achievement
is, we may call it anything else, but to call it pleasure would be
misnomer.
Nevertheless they who are earthy are contemptuous of day
dreamers. The who ‘late and soon getting, and spending law waste their
powers and little see in nature that is ours are prone to have such
feelings for those who make plans and entertain hopes that can never be
realised. But is the dreams of such dreams to whom we owe much of colour
and joy in the world. They make our drab world permeate with whose who
make life worth living. They wipe tears off every eye. They are the
angles who do hot fear to tread or even to rush, whatever the attitude
of the down-to-the dearth people may be.
It is a fact that in all
ages such dreamers have been dubbed cranks. Nevertheless, it is the
cranks of one age who dream of a world different from the one in which
they lived that mankind have, though at a slow pace, become different
from what other species are. The discontent of such dreamers with the
present make them to visualise a world where mankind would enjoy the
‘sweetness and light’ they unconsciously had been instruments.
Day
dreamers have super-human power of withdrawing themselves from the
tedium of boring routine. They by virtue of sanguine optimism have the
capacity to neutralize the blind darkness of the realist. The hopes they
entertain never meet with frustration, and they with unheated zeal go
ahead from one pleasure to another. This pleasure is rather unknown to
those who cannot abandon themselves completely. An egoist who is
ambitious to become supreme lord of a cherished domain cannot known this
pleasure. Only the meet enter "this kingdom. Obviously of all sorts of
material gains which yelled nothing but disappointment, with a pipe in
his mouth and a vacant glance in its eyes out dreamer is transported to.
that region where hatred ignoble reclaims give rise to love, humanism,
broad mindedness and internationalism. And the picture of the world that
emerges from such thinking is a thrilling and colourful pictures as are
seen through a kaleidescope by a boy.
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