Sadness is not being able to open up even when your insides is full to its brim. Happiness must feel weightless. Tears come when you know you can stop them from flowing but you still let them roll out because if they remain inside, your mind turns acid and your outside becomes sour. Times when sadness is around you, you may have many around you but for you there is no one. Gazing into the empty space with hope that it will break into some warm light and will soak you into the blissfulness. But sadness is like a setting sun, all you've is the drowning feeling. No one to pull you out. It becomes a horror show when sadness give way to disgust. To be disgusted by your own state and disgusted by everything that feels nothing for you. You hate yourself more because of the hate that is harbouring guilt. You are restless because sadness, disgust, hate and guilt is all you're filled with. Hope seems like a fucked up agenda because you know the only way out is to keep dragging on this path, through all this murky, smelling souls.
In light of the philosophy that this video propounds, Indian independence struggle against British imperialism is a testimony of how mass civil disobedience (1930) can make an invincible tyrant kneel down. Nonviolent civil disobedience throughout India was a wake-up call for British raj. It realised that once the conscience of 'enslaved' gets awakened, it cannot be thwarted for long. For today's society, 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley gives a great insight into how when your conscience finds its' voice, solace comes in seeking the answers to the questions that hitherto you were oblivious to. I personally feel that many wouldn't want to awaken their inner-voice, for many 'ignorance is bliss'. It would be cruel to subject an unprepared mind to existential realities, nature has its own ways of doing that. We as mortals should limit ourselves to our own search, not make it a personal agenda to awaken everyone, that would be equivalent to a tyrant/e...
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