Adaptation and Living

One of the most beautiful things to realise in this life that flowers don't stop having fragrance if someone plucks and crushes them. Though there is also the realisation that probably they might in the later time, like you see the adaptations of different plants, cactus having thorns, venus flytrap trapping live pray. Ultimately it's about adaptation, and how you adapt. Probably adapt like a rose? Have thorns and yet have the beauty and fragrance? It's about channelizing too, channelize your negative emotions in a positive way, find out the origin of your negative emotions and beliefs. If you have hatred for something, find out the reason for it, assess it under a standard moral and ethical framework and scientific and empirical evidences. That's how you evolve without losing the beauty in you. You remain in this country for long and you realise that a quite large number of people in this country are corrupt and hypocritical idiots whose one and only goal is self-preservation which is not wrong until you realise that it is self-preservation at the expense of others. Some people, like me, are blessed with a good family and community, a large number of good, helpless and innocent people in this country are not and they have to adapt to the ugliness of this country, and in a quite ugly way. These, what can be call as maladaptations if compared with standard moral and ethical frameworks, could have been prevented by education, information and ability to handle social pressure and injustices, but then access to these things too are controlled and so we see perfectly good people turning into ugly monsters. If not for the widespread delusions and hypocrisy this country, as I have seen in my lifetime, is quite an ugly one. The government, religious, political and media propaganda only lasts until one becomes capable to think on one's own and becomes able to make sense of the things that he sees around him. At the highest level, as I have seen in the past decade, this country, or if not this country then at least the region I hail from functions on revenge for slights to ego, real or imaginary, and I find it quite funny for a region and country which is so underdeveloped and lacking in basic civic sense, but whatever floats the boat of individuals who control the population. The best approach is to adapt and not maladapt and making efforts to strengthen yourself as much as it is possible in all domains. My personal approach is to adapt in such a way that it doesn't affect or harms others as much as possible. You can be like a rose, beautiful, fragrant and yet have thorns, you can be like a lotus, retaining your beauty in the muck, or you can be like a venus flytrap, catching live prey, choice is yours.