Is this grass really greener?
Wanted to write about this a long time back but somehow it didnt happen.
Some days back one of the Bangalore's celebrities (lets call him GrassHopper!) was caught red-handed at Dubai for possessing Marijuana. Though the news itself didnt come as much of a shock, the after-reactions/responses certainly were surprising.
"Everybody smokes grass occasionally... there's no crime or shame to it" was the immediate reaction of GrassHopper's wife. And following are some more interesting (n funny) quotes by GrassHopper's kith n kin.
"There's substance abuse in every other industry."
"It's true that a lot of creative people smoke grass, and society is liberal enough to accept them."
"My only reaction is, how can he be such a fool and carry grass (marijuana) on his person knowing fully well that Dubai is extremely strict about drug possession."
"My husband is a responsible man, it's a mistake, not a social stigma on him."
So it is it. No remorse, no guilt. Only wrong they saw in it was that he got caught.
There's no denying that drug-use is quite rampant in upper echelons of the society, but comes as a real shocker to see the outlook of these guys towards it. Isn't something terribly wrong in this? Or am i too behind the times in this sophisticated, modernised society of 'India shining'?
The whole episode reminds me of a story i'm sure you all must have heard from your granny's. There's this hardended thief who's been sentenced to death. He makes a last wish of meeting his mother. Upon meeting her, he says he wants to say something in her ear. And he bites her ear till it gets plucked out. Writhing in pain, momma asks why did he do it to her? And he says, 'When i was a child and when for the first time I showed a classmate's pencil which i'd stolen, you didnt rebuke me by a word. You just listened but never scolded me. This gave me a feeling that whatever i'm doing is right and and i went on for bigger advents. Had you admonished me then, had you stopped me right there, I'd have been saved from the gallows! I bit your ear as a punishment to you.'
Makes sense? May god give the moms or wives of these GrassHoppers of today some brains n foresight.
i remain.
posted by ankydoodle at
3:10 PM
2 Comments:
read ur post few weeks ago .
Wanted to respond earlier itself but somehow could not manage it ...
I cant really figure out on what basis do we consider whether particular stuff is wrong or right , morally ?
Something can be illegal , but we can not say whether it is "right" or "wrong" .
This "right" or "wrong" would change from perspective to perspective , person to person.
If somebody wants to have "Marijuana" , he/She takes it and maintains himself with dignity, whats has the rest of world got to do with it .
The people can be punished if something is against the law , but we certainly cant judge what is OK or NOT OK for an individual. Had that been the case , whole of world would have had the same laws. But that is not the case . There are innumerable such behaviors which are acceptable in one country and "punishable" in another.
It is about not being behind the times , but it is just about accepting the way people want to go on with their lives.
Anyways , the moral reasonability does not only lie with "wife" and "Mom" , it lies with "Husband" and "Dad" as well..
Abhishek
I think theres a tinge of both you lagging a bit in the so called "sophistication" and surely there is something wrong going on there.
I will explain this in a lot detail maybe someplace else and sometime later. Although, i might want to add that it is similar, and i am using the word "similar" in the boradest sense of it, that it is similar to what reaction drinking alcohol might have got before it helds its root in our society. I am not saying here that in say a quarter of century people would have accepted "grass" as such, but that it is being treated with that attitude. More later.. good topic that you came up with, we can certainly get varied comments and discuss.
Till then, keep writing..
Love
~Sush~
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