There's only so much you can stretch a string before it breaks. After a point you have got to say enough is enough, or the string will break and the recoil will hurt you bad, real bad. But it's hard, isn't it, to know when.
I mean look at cricket, IPL was a good exciting thing when it started, but it got bigger than first cut calculations and suddenly someone thinks it is an infinite money-making machine. Ad plug-ins in between balls and in every sentence of the commentary, way too much noise and crackers, way too many matches coming up, too much blatant, vulgar money - IPL3 is already an overkill I've little interest left in, and it's bound to get worse. It feels like a bubble, much like sub-prime, waiting to burst, IMHO.
It's just greed, isn't it? This desire to milk a good thing for more and more until it dies in the hope of well..more. Blinding disillusioning greed.
Greed that makes corporate bosses push their people to work harder and longer in less and less time for less and less money, screwing their lives to increase their margins until it starts hitting the breaking point and the brave among the good people begin to leave their jobs. (Sounds familiar?)
It is also greed of some kind that makes us hang on to relationships that aren't working - eternal hope or just desire to get more. I don't know really. It does feel like greed if you don't do anything about a problem just because you know that the other person is somehow living with it, even if with enough difficulty. The string will snap at some point, won't it. Wouldn't/ shouldn't at some point, you hear - enough is enough.
What's the right thing to do - I'm confused (and incoherent, sorry!)
I mean look at cricket, IPL was a good exciting thing when it started, but it got bigger than first cut calculations and suddenly someone thinks it is an infinite money-making machine. Ad plug-ins in between balls and in every sentence of the commentary, way too much noise and crackers, way too many matches coming up, too much blatant, vulgar money - IPL3 is already an overkill I've little interest left in, and it's bound to get worse. It feels like a bubble, much like sub-prime, waiting to burst, IMHO.
It's just greed, isn't it? This desire to milk a good thing for more and more until it dies in the hope of well..more. Blinding disillusioning greed.
Greed that makes corporate bosses push their people to work harder and longer in less and less time for less and less money, screwing their lives to increase their margins until it starts hitting the breaking point and the brave among the good people begin to leave their jobs. (Sounds familiar?)
It is also greed of some kind that makes us hang on to relationships that aren't working - eternal hope or just desire to get more. I don't know really. It does feel like greed if you don't do anything about a problem just because you know that the other person is somehow living with it, even if with enough difficulty. The string will snap at some point, won't it. Wouldn't/ shouldn't at some point, you hear - enough is enough.
What's the right thing to do - I'm confused (and incoherent, sorry!)
11 comments:
You sound like a TU leader
Good question -- when to quit hoping and face the truth. I have been pondering over it for a while myself, though for very different reasons.
As for IPL, I can still bear it as of now (except that Akshya Kumar add for Gamolution). What will happen next year with supposedly 94 games remains to be seen.
And now for the 'greed' part, I guess like all the good qualities, greed too makes us human. May be it was greed with led the invention of fire and wheel and it was greed which helped us come where we are at present!!
Without sounding philosophical, I guess, greed is always here to stay. We should just see ahead that where it is leading us and then act accordingly.
kuch jyada funda ho gaya..sorry!!
That's why the famous 'time will tell' phrase...
@ Kunnu
You're comment has added another aspect to Taru's line of thought. There is a difference between hunger and greed, a fact that many humans tend to forget.
I agree. But yes, how many of us take time to see which is which..isnt it?
Or may be..there is no such thing as hunger and greed. If the effort pays, we say he was hungry and if it results in disaster, we say, it was greed. A fine line it is...if there is a line!!
You, somehow, tend to not put a question mark at the end of a sentence like this one, don't you.
I, somehow, have happened to like that..
Btw, how's Kiddo doing? :)
@Vik
You are extremely careful with the details, I must say :-)
Ah! Very well put.
And, I guess, confusion is the right answer!
[ted]
Umm.. if you say.
[anurag]
You see...there needs to be a bell that should go off some where..."STOP pushing it!"
[Kunnu]
Greed isn't one of the original sins for nothing. There has to be a difference between not being comfortably satisfied with status quo and between wanting more and more. It's a thin line that takes a lot of self control to tread.
On one hand there is the the beautiful truth : when you push at limits, the limits themselves shift. On the other is the need to stop before breaking point.
[novacaine]
A little less helplessness, maybe? :)
[deep tanned shoe]
Quite agree. There;s enough out there for your need, but not greed
[vik]
Very observant of you. Actually I have this sudden dislike for too many question marks (skip half of them in my slides too :P) They sorta bring in your face that there are too many unanswered questions out there that I have no clue about.
Kiddo's all right. Hanging around.
[divesh]
And there lies the devil!
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