Absolutely True

The words, complete and finished almost always carry the same meaning; but when it comes to refer a marriage, they expose their real faces and arrange in a harmonious chain and appear ‘completely finished’. Words change their meaning and appeal according to time, situation and place. The matter would not have been a serious concern, unless some of them would not have turned harmful. The impressions some words leave on the human psyche sometimes grow into a threat. The best examples are words like over, perfect, done etc. Similar words referring to an end, a break or a stop point should be redefined. Looking closely, we find that nothing is complete, there is no finishing point as such anywhere and everything is imperfect. What is the point in pleading for a recheck? Its’ because I feel that a sense of ‘no more’ if added at any point may mark even the end of human advancement.

Recently, we hear a lot of loud cries from all around, over the plastic waste that is growing into a threat. At nature parks, I have seen hoardings saying that a plastic is the last recycled thing in the universe. I once thought that our only option with plastic is not to produce it. Last week, I happened to read coverage on a few enthusiasts who grew a particular variety of bacteria which could recycle plastic fast. Petrol prices are always on hike; I read about an eighth standard motor mechanic successfully attaching a self designed unit with a four stroke engine and increasing the vehicle’s fuel efficiency by 23%, as officially agreed upon after lab tests. I read about a college girl who introduced a typical car washing glouse, to which a water hose is connected. The glouse has holes in it and using it we need only less water to wash any car. I heard about a village sect who uses a natural glue, secretion from some insects or whatever, used inside their clay cooking utensils to make them non-stick. I also read about a drummer who attached special containers and sticks on the drum stands around him, which allowed him to use different sticks at different tunes, without waste of time. If ever any of them had affirmed that what was found out or in use is always were the perfect and the last, they could not have contributed their share.

This is about physical inventions and social achievements. What that shakes me most is the danger hid behind ‘perfectionists’ in religious realms. The one who thinks that I have understood everything and sticks on to the old beliefs and conclusions belongs to the lost class. They can be easily defined ‘ignorant’. They not only spoil themselves but also the entire humanity. A trip towards truth always is that of distinct and new realizations at every point. No doubt that great nations are due to great people, who believe that the best book is yet to be written. 

Joseph Mattappally