After completing my graduation, I took the risk to leave the safe nest of my home town and took the flight in the open sky of uncertainties in the unknown land of Mumbai. I have acknowledged it in the past posts that the risk I took was not out of courage but out of innocence. Still, why gamble in the first place? Why so many like me who leave their homes and go to explore the unknown taking risks?
Do you know what is the first thing an offspring of snake does when it is born? It does nothing. It lies as if it's dead. It has learned from evolutionary biology to take the risk to not move - even if it is outside and unsafe. If it moves, the mother mistakes it for prey and eats it. Human babies take the risk to move and to cry loudly. This risk-taking is not out of courage, but rather its inability to manage its food, clothing and shelter. Thus, taking such a risk of inviting strangers is also a survival instinct. Belongingness for we humans is, therefore, less of a virtue and more of a necessity. Even today, isolation is the harshest punishment for any criminal.
One such creative risk which is handled only by human beings and not by any other animal is the creation of God.
Throughout human history, man has taken several risks to explore new lands, fight large battles, discover new places. Even the advent of tools, techniques and technology comes with trade-offs of its ill-effects, but human beings have taken the risk. Same goes in the domains of community formation, social structures and cultural creations. One such creative risk which is handled only by human beings and not by any other animal is the creation of God. Of course, this too is with its side-effects.
Cover Image:
Guppy James | Plucking the Rose (2009) | Acrylic on Linen | Painting - 45cms X 45cms
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