tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29222582.post867762181866840235..comments2024-01-15T17:30:02.361+05:30Comments on Window Pane: The SkylarkAntarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08517201243065925386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29222582.post-58306468697354756922010-06-13T20:34:00.283+05:302010-06-13T20:34:00.283+05:30Thanks Sourav and Riddhi for your well-thought com...Thanks Sourav and Riddhi for your well-thought comments :). Yes Riddhi, this is definitely just a thought experiment, too simplistic to measure happiness, and can be rattled with counter-logics easily. Basically it all depends on the priorities of an individual.. independence vs. security vs. happiness of near and dear ones and so on... Who has ever been able to compute something like 'Resultant Happiness' with a general formula :) ? And then, we ARE ultimately social creatures, and quite happily so.. society will definitely have its demand...<br />Just wanted to convey that the society, at times, grossly underestimates the importance of individual independence and happiness... and it has its own sets of terrihorribly simplistic logics and set notions for doing so... and the worst part is that you may just be tagged as a peculiar non-mainstream creature if you are not to keen on conforming..<br /><br />Open views and and an inclusive attitude is what should help things get a lot more amicable, beautiful and free... say what?Antarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08517201243065925386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29222582.post-58461353599166775352010-04-28T22:02:42.699+05:302010-04-28T22:02:42.699+05:30This is a very good thought experiment. And a very...This is a very good thought experiment. And a very well written article. It’s the thought more than the language which really makes this stand out.<br /><br />This article somehow reminds me of the film 15 Park Avenue. There the protagonist played by Konkona Sen Sharma is a schizophrenic patient. She imagines that she is married to her ex-boyfriend(Rahul Bose) and have 5 children. She also hallucinates about a place with address 15 Park Avenue(which does not exist in reality). The film tries to depict that she is totally content with her imaginary family and is engrossed so much in it that she does not have time to think about anyone else. In the end she finds or imagines finding her residence in 15 Park Avenue. <br />In this scenario we can put <br />Independence : 100%(Although she had to depend a bit on her elder sister and Rahul Bose for finding the place, but this dependence is not contrary to happiness) <br />General social expectations : 0%<br />Expectations of immediate circle : 0%. <br />Resultant happiness : 100%<br />Had she been normal, the traumatic incidents of her life would alone have reduced this happiness by 50%. Also she would not have been free of Social Expectations. Her independence also would have been greatly hampered.<br />As a result, it would have become:<br />Independence : 20%<br />General social expectations : 30%<br />Expectations of immediate circle : 50%<br />Resultant Happiness : 0%<br /><br /><br /><br />We can also take up the scenario of a student who has just completed his school level education and is on the verge of deciding the course of further education. We all can relate to this situation.<br />His parents expect him to take a degree in engineering and secure a good job. He personally prefers taking up Physics honors but it would take him at least 6 to 7 years to get established in this field and the retired parents would not be able to support him economically that long. Also he would himself be frustrated when his engineer friends would become IT professionals and he would still be studying. In this case<br />Independence : 0%<br />General social expectations : 50%<br />Expectations of immediate circle : 50%<br />Resultant Happiness : 0%<br /><br />Having said all this, I must remark that in all these scenarios we are basing the measures of Social Expectations and Independence on a single factor. In reality these would depend on several factors and the calculations would become very tedious. However these assumptions are justified since all experiments have to make certain assumptions and it is definitely more fun this way <br /><br />I must also mention that you really have a flare for writing and I would encourage you keep up the good work. Hoping to see more thought-provoking articles from you soon.Riddhimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29222582.post-83085087654594664592010-02-21T21:57:36.398+05:302010-02-21T21:57:36.398+05:30Yes, the true meaning of independence and the true...Yes, the true meaning of independence and the true meaning of social independence - have always allured me. The freedom of doing something varies in multiple levels nowadays - it always matters which level you are going to chose. But then again, it matters only to you. What happens when, one day I walk out of my room to find that a rain has just stopped but has not completely disappeared and suddenly I decide that I'd spend the rest of the day walking alone anywhere I like? It probably never happens. Our social independence is in many way a limited subset of true independence, but I don't know what it is in its true meaning!Sourav Dattahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03720297286442754163noreply@blogger.com