Forward

I first thought to name this blog as My Space, but it sounded much heard and boring for me. It’s to everyone’s commonsense that everything that exists in the universe occupies a physical space and one over internet a virtual space. I wanted to name it something meaningful, something that would reflect my outlook and my perception to what I would be blogging here. So thought for a while and decided to name it Length and Breadth.


We generally relate ‘length and breadth’ with measurement, something that spans two-dimension on a plane. Anyone understands that one with only length has a single dimension and that with both length and breadth is two dimensional. Though we read and boast life to be with many facets, we seldom live a life of that kind; rarely any try to even add the second dimension to life. Colloquially we say life to be lived over its life line; it’s the course over which life would be lead by the so called fate. Though fate is more to one’s belief system, but still through a common man’s angle, life is to live over some already defined or definable track. Over this track while living, we add and disintegrate things, materials, relations, luxury etc, etc. All these are part of life’s length for me.

What is then the breadth all about? Human beings on this face of earth are the only rational being who can think logical for most of his life’s decisions. For the same reason, he converges to feel to be rationally dutiful for the naturally gifted rights he enjoys. For a non-atheist the first door he opens would be of the creator of the universe. Then on he would realize other of his duties, viz; towards his co-creations, towards the nature that fondles his existence and so on. Realization of these obligations and the constructive efforts that promotes a harmony of co-existence of all these under the shade of an ethical adherence could be the second dimension to life; the breadth of life.

We often measure life’s success by material attainments, earthly possessions and worldly power, but these all clings to the length of one' life, that which starts with his birth and ends by his death. Unlike length, breadth is the intellectual side of life; starting with a sane understanding and cognitive realization of the context of his very existence, which in turn triggers for selfless services and efforts one undertakes for the good of all. It’s more of a logical elaboration where one understands his ability and talent and then diverts his energy into the very cause of the breadth dimension of life. In short, length is the default part of life and breadth the optional part.

You follow the stream's current like the dry and the rotten, you live the X-axis of life, but when you row against the stream's current, you make the zigzags broadcasting your existence over the XY- plane; here you make for the breadth of your life. Great leaders, philosophers, scientists, prophets etc are all wonderful examples where new horizons of breadths are exemplified; for the cause of the creator, the co-creations, and the nature.

I would want to blog here not to add to the length, but bit to the breadth of my life. If I could spread something constructive by my writings, I would feel contented. Thanks for your patience for being with me throughout.