We enter the year of cataclysmic prediction. Prophesies of the end of the world in 2012 have become a popular theme for a number of writings and even cinema scripts. Whether true or not, they portray the kind of cynicism on life that has crept into the human mind. To add to this general air of pessimism, there are events in the financial and political world that show a collapsing old order of life.
Surely things are not right, to say the least. A deep social pathology seems to be surfacing like a miasm that arises from dark deeps to take hold of man and manifest as chronic illness. The remedy too must be radical, going down to the roots, as it were. Mere palliatives, balm and cosmetic surgeries or symptomatic relief will no longer work. Perhaps the pathology is not just a symptom of a deep malaise but an occasion to confront all that lurks unseen in our subconscious roots, a pullulating mass full of greed, lust, selfishness and all the rest. This exercise will give us an occasion also to discover our strengths, the greatest of which is often born out of the greatest adversity. And wisdom comes like a light that opens new horizons after we have weathered the storm.
So let us look beyond the collapse and the swash and dedicate ourselves to the coming light. Growing purer and stronger by the ordeal, let us welcome the coming dawns that the night comes to prepare for us.
