article: Life is a sailing boat
An Indian Baul singer from West-Bengali compared life to the ocean. Sometimes it is calm and your boat is floating peacefully into the sun. But then a storm is coming up and you have to take all the ropes of your boat in one hand, so it won’t sink. Even your mind is a huge ocean, which may go wild into all directions. Also here you may have to take the ropes together, so you don’t go down under.
In 2008 the financial and economic crisis took many boats down under the sea, which will never come up again. This is partly a result of the last 20 years of economic and political policy. It’s a crisis where we didn’t want to see and/or didn’t want to change. Nobody wanted to take the ropes to drive the boats over the ocean, nobody had seriously an interest to take the ropes. Moreover institutions got too big to take decisions.
Furthermore the attacks in Mumbai in December 2008 took us down into a further separation of Christians against Muslims against Hindus against whoever…, which is senseless, because we are human beings, independently of any Gods. As a Baul singer continues to sing, your body is a temple. It is a garden of beautiful flowers. Your heart is pure of gold and more beautiful than any gold in the world. But you can easily get lost in the huge ocean, only looking to the outside things of this world, being distracted by money, career, glamour or whatever this world may offer to you, to make life comfortable. And often we prefer to be blind, because this gives us pleasure and happiness. But does it lead somewhere? I have no answer. Still we could try to be truthful to our hearts, to our friends and family, to people we love.
A miraculous and extraordinary human being and actor got lost in the wide ocean of 2008. But he will stay alive in all his films, in memory of Heath Ledger.
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