I like to observe ordinary strangers through their windows. Peering into some stranger’s window is not only extremely rude and intrusive, it is an uncannily fulfilling exercise.

When I glance into a stranger’s window and see a pretty girl curled up on a couch reading Elliots’s Middlemarch, I try to imagine what kind of a person she is and what her life is like. Is she a purist like Dorothea or an idealist like Tertius — or maybe she is both.

Or when I see an old man, deeply engrossed in his cigarette, I try to imagine what he is thinking about and how old he is and almost instantly — how long he has been smoking (for most smokers or ex-smokers, an old man holding a cigarette instantly evokes their long buried hope that one can continue smoking and live to be old)

A window offers the owner and an observer many insights. To an owner, it offers a view of the world outside and all the hues and depths it has to offer. To an observer, it offers the opportunity to judge — without fear of rebuke.

For an instant, the observer and the subject (through the window) are connected by some invisible karmic bond. The subject is, of course, unaware of this intrusion of privacy while the observer’s mind gleefully soaks in details –  constructs hypothetical structures around the subject. This “spell” is broken, if the observer loses perspective or if the subject realizes that he or she is being observed.

Such “intellectual” eavesdropping is generally different from “recreational” eavesdropping. However, that does not make it any less intrusive. Or rude.

When you reflect on your past, very often, you realize that numerous small, seemingly insignificant events and consequential changes have modified the portrait of your personal reality. Most of these reflections, reveal changes which are small in scale and easily ignored. Some reflections however, shed light on parts of your life which have undergone radical transformation and the result of such unconscious transformation has changed the course of your life.

At such times, you realize that you are no longer the same person you were in some recent memory. If you are sensitive, your mind may react with shock to such conclusion. And you may, if the transformation in question has negative repercussions, start making conscious efforts to reverse the transformation.

Such denial is healthy to a certain extent. Beyond a particular threshold (defined conveniently, by the nature of the situation), such denial can lead to emotional injury. It is important to be wary of such denial and make only controlled and externally aided efforts to negate the change. The most effective external aid is the support of family and friends and such support should be solicited aggressively.

However, a large percentage of the times, the transformation in question is positive and it is important to treat the realization of such transformation with the respect it deserves. Often, celebrating such transformation is important to obtain closure. Closure is the single most important factor in the acceptance of personal change.

What do you say to a fellow who has vowed to destroy his brotherhood? Such violent thoughts. Such vile plans! O the foul aura of his being! O the ungodly spite in his prose! Such a monster ought not to be invested upon. No, never! Such insanity should be cast into the darkest, most evil corners of the underworld.

Why do we permit such evil to exist? Why don’t we just ask the Divine Being to strike such evil down? Why would such monstrosity be allowed to breathe the same air we breathe, live in the same world as we. You and I.

In the increasingly evil, self consumed world that we live in, sometimes, we feel the negative energy drag us down, consume our happiness, destroy our hope, devour our love and infest in us a hardened self sustained source of hatred and materialistic madness.

For a moment, just reflect upon the evil that has plagued our world since the beginning of this new century. We need to wake up to reality. The world is a mess, right now. And we seem to have submitted to the grim stage of evil and destruction it presents today.

Men and women, my fellow citizens of the world, pray for a vocation! A call from the Divine Being Himself. So He may wake us from the deep slumber of ignorance. Escape from the prison of self content and comfort — because these just inspire rest.

Sharpen your blades, O brethren. Let us form an army and restore our world!

Viva Revolution!