Legends Live On

Whether Troy was a Myth or otherwise is immaterial, what matters is that in the Story of Iliad we need not be reminded of its veracity, we know that its true. The Passion the story evokes is a fact and remains indisputable. Myths take us away to possibilities that we may never realise in our average existence. To quote George Lucas "To Succeed we must imagine that we will succeed". But yet the essence of imagination remains enmeshed within psychological mumbo-jumbo that we dont necessarily think about it, and even if we do we give up.

The Simple awe Heroic stories evoke within us motivates, just for an instant, and makes our lives nourished with happiness though for an instant. This nourishment is by far the corner stone of every successful civilization. Take for instance the Chinese puzzles. These contraptions have been developed in the heydays of Chinese Civilizations to develop the intellectual faculty of children. The nourishment the kids had is of the highest order. The Mathematical Study of Topology, relevant even in Quantum Mechanics, has ideas born out of the famous dissection puzzle- The Tangram. Heroics of Arial Sharon in the Yomkippur war galvanised his men to fight audaciously to win over an impossible battle against the Egyptians. The practicality of the situation dictated retreat but Ari had already imagined the impossible- "Victory!"

The very act of heroic is perhaps the only possible act of immortality others than sex. No amount of tapasya invoking the Trinity will get you where an act of Heroic would. Physicists cannot say that the knowledge we have on the forces of nature is complete, Quantum Mechanical phenomenons continue to defy the famed "Common Sense". No amount of persuasion would have me convinced of the contrary.

With dimensions infinite and possibilities immense, I look at the sky and say "Oh! Its a beautiful Night."