relativity

Einstein is right.....everything is relative

yesterday from the corner of my eyes, while alighting at marine lines station,, i witnessed  two shabby grubby young guys sitting huddled under the dark dingy stairway just outside the station, using syringes..since ive never seen drugs been taken from a syringe, i took a few seconds from my life to watch them, out of sheer curiosity. they seemed oblivious to the world and the world to them.

as I left , a little further away, was a beggar girl.

.except that she wasn't  the usual  beggar girl., the kind u come across  in mumbai ..traditional beggars in a  hereditary profession....more often thn not very young.. ragged half saree , ragged blouse of a mismatchedly different colour, hair not seen oil since the day they were born.....This girl  seemed to be a girl about 25, who seemed to be from some respectable family, and who seemed to have  come into real bad times..at least tahts waht her clothes, jeans and a tshirt,  even if grubby and unwashed for months, seemed to suggest..she also didnt seem like somebody who must be also selling her awesome body for a living....

while on one side, i couldn't help thinking about how wrong the boys were handling their lives, ie life has so many beautiful things to offer, but they seemed to prefer to enjoy life the more difficult way.  At the same time, i realise wretched though the girl was she was at least a shade better then them in her wretchedness.

which is what set me thinking about relativity.

i think, if i was that boy under the bridge exchanging needles had to view themselves as a third person , they would justify themselves,  saying, at least we are not beggar.s like that girl, .the beggar in turn would feel, at least im not a thief...the thief wud say, at least im not a bigger thief, the bigger their would decry a politician, the politician mite point fingers at the drug addict for being a bane of society, and the cycle goes on.

each person would definitely find somebody more abhor able than himself to feel good about himself, or at least justify his existence to the world.