A Nudge Is All It Takes

A few days ago I came across a video titled “A nudge is all it takes” in DC++, a P2P of our LAN. It was a nice compilation of good direction, good camera movements and captures and a little animation. More than that what attracted me the most was the theme of the video (of course meant to be). For those who haven’t watched it I have put the URL of that video hoisted on Google videos. Even then I have actually seen some friends around me unable to go through it either because of their lack of interest or because of lack of plangency with themselves. Anyways, the story is based on a man who thinks beyond what others seldom take interest in. He questions all aspects of physical existence of everything that comes across him. He gets in to the iteration of making things simple, straight and perfect. He finds himself jugged up with in his own perceptions. He decisively questions his abilities and discerning traits/habits/nature. He then hits the point where many philosophers, saints, thinkers and scientists had been gun pointed before to lose all hopes, aspirations, incentive to live or rather exist. The question that has bugged humanity for ever knocks at his doors. Does it matter what happens to him or his nearby living and nonliving things in the entire Universe which is supposed to consist of/contain billions of galaxies which if laid as touchstone we are no big than the minutest? In short we are nothing in this universe. He finds that he is nothing. For a moment he wonders and thinks of what if he had the control of whole of earth – our planet. He dreams of making this planet beautiful, peaceful and perfect and succeeds in at least his dreams. But soon he zooms out of our planet and sees it from cosmological point of view. Earth is still nothing. Even if there is a little earth, it hasn’t been changed. So, did it matter? Did making the perfect world matter in this universe? NO. As always he too failed to calm himself off the misery which we all humans have been endowed upon. He decides to jump from a tall building’s balcony if a flickering lamp in front of him stops flickering in 10 seconds. But there was no scene of suicide. Well I guess it wouldn’t have mattered to anybody from his perspective.

A nudge is all it takes. Surely it does. My interest in this video was everything I ever wanted to say since I was in class 8 when I read about universe, big bang, and time and space matrix etcetera. In fact it doesn’t matter as such if I write this or not, and it doesn’t matter if you read this or not. But still the question remains unanswered. But I always try to go past this and have tried in past. Well certainly we can’t find any answer to our existence in this vast universe. But we can manipulate our ways of definitions. We have birth rights of having opinions and to argue. We are able to do many things because of this meaningless existence of ours. We are humans – at the top of all living creatures. We feel and enjoy and express and hid. We are also able to raise this question of our own existence. Is not that for a purpose? Why? Why are we here? Is not it obvious to make the difference? Is not this for the little nudge that we can force? I believe so. Forget questioning existence. After all these miraculous and mysterious cosmological happenings we are here. That does have some meaning. And it is our duty to find the meaning. We are here for the NUDGE. Let us make the little difference wherever possible and however matter less it may be for the whole of cosmos. We can’t stop its increasing entropy which by the way doesn’t matter to me or us. A nudge is all it takes to settle our life and the same it takes to disturb our harmony. If we can make a little difference in somebody else’s life or to this earth that’s the nudge we are giving to our own life. Is it matter less? Yes, it may be. But what difference does that make to us. As a human being I know every one of us looks for happiness and satisfaction as the non living things try to be in the lowest potential energy state. That’s our goal and that’s our purpose. Ways are different. We are here on earth for that only. It doesn’t matter if we harm someone in our life and I think we have the rights to do whatever we want to do on this earth. This planet is as much as mine as it is yours. But it does matter when we do the opposite to someone else. Pleasure is additive.

Feel it or not but A NUDGE IS ALL IT TAKES to create the difference in your life.