A LOOK AT LIFE-40
A LOOK AT LIFE-40 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY Life in chain The society in which I am born, the way i was groomed and socialised to look at the world made me what i am, a machine that confirms to the values of the larger society. All along I am taught and schooled to look at the world, behave, interact and interpret in a way defined by the society to which I belong. With hands and legs, mind and conscience strongly bound, I am to live a life far away from me. Chained emotion, chained love caged smile, caged feeling, patterned behaviour, patterned interaction i am supposed to live with, love and endure. When I first looked at the world through my own eyes, I felt it was not my eyes through which i was looking at but through a pair of glasses, thickly coloured by the norms and values of the society. I never saw the world as it was but the way I was made to look it at. The values I inculcated stood in the way and blurred my vision. Since birth, I am in chains chained in a golden ch