(The following lines were inspired by a teacher of mine who, while explaining some experimental observations, told us in class “There need not be a reason for everything”)
“Why is it so?” you ask
To your father, and then to your tutor
To your high school teacher
To the professor, and his research associate
And to the guest lecturer from Harvard
Finally, convinced that
The question has not been answered
You ask the molecule itself
Through your own innovative mind
And sincere, hard work.
Have you found your answer, scientist?
Or have you lost them all?
You have asked so many people
And would keep doing so
But have if you ever asked yourself?
Maybe you have? Maybe unknowingly?
Maybe you answered already?
Maybe your equations feel betrayed?
Maybe your apparatus scorn at you?
“Everything need not have a reason”!
Welcome scientist! Welcome to the world
Where lightning strikes because it does
Where sky is blue because it looks beautiful
Where lovers kiss even before realizing
Where people die in excellent health
Where you read this junk, because you want to…..
4 comments:
Nature (or a scientist's primary question) can be beautiful and awe-inspiring even if we ask why...teasing out the molecules from a flower doesn't make it less beautiful or intriguing...
and i think everything does have a reason to be, just that we might not be in a position to understand it...with time we might :)
thought provoking piece, keep it up!
Yeah, definitely!!! I never said asking questions about something makes it less beautiful. But what I am trying to say is, we need to re-consider the phrase "everything has a reason". If you see, at some fundamental level it becomes "fundamental assumption", or "intuitively, we understand that..."
ok i am not eligible enough to enter into a scientific debate here as to whether there is a reason for everything!!
but from a poetic point of view i can say that chitrak what i found interesting in the poem here is that the molecule almost seems human, a living object.as if you are caring for its emotions and what it thinks.just wanted to let you know that...a good one!
i just came back to this post of urs after a long time...
today possibly i wud humbly accept ur point of view...yes things might happen just so... the reasons often become irrelevant...
and yes the fundamental assumption is our human folly, fundamental assumptions will possibly with time be proven, (with other fundamental assuptions of course)...and we'll ultimately reach the most ultimate assumption of god :P then the reasons again become irrelevant...
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