It does not imply that only creative artists think that life is to enjoy it and nothing else. Our explorers, conquerors of invincible peaks and scientists are inspired by the same passion. Exposing themselves to the incumbencies of weather, the explores go on the uncharted oceans, the mountaineers brave the most unfriendly weather, and the scientists prefer the company of the mute insensate to the enchanting warm embraces like Aldous Huxley's genius in his novel entitled The Genius and the Goddess. Because nothing else would give them a feeling of joy. Cut off from their cherished pursuit they world feel like a person pushed into an abyss of misery.
But what about the politicians? Is not their sole aim to have power? Do they not love to be honorer and feared like gods who sit by their springs of nectar heedless of the weeping and crying men struck by calamities? Or are they not possessed with the earnest zeal to better the lot of the underdog as in some communist and socialist countries? Do not they, who like Che Gulvera (though not suffering from chronic asthma like him) prefer the risky life of guerrillas to snug comforts of peaceful home life, spurn the joys of life? To raise such questions is nothing but to betray one's ignorance of human nature.
They who seem to reject the pleasures of the present so that others, who do not enjoy what some others enjoy, may also enjoy them, certainly get a pleasure though it is not comprehensible to ordinary human beings. After all the concept of enjoyment is not one and only one. Its colour and form change as the perspective changes.
Some sceptical persons might say that it is stretching the meaning of enjoyment too far. they might be right as myopics and colour blind people are about their vision. Let them be contented with their concept of pleasure and think that enjoyment can be had only when they go to see a movie, watch the T.V., see a match being played sit with friends and chat with them go to cabaret or read they playboy.
Who dare contradict them? They certainly understand what the main purpose of life is. But if cranks can be suffered, why same persons should not be. If they think that they alone enjoy life, let dogs and apes speak and tell them whether animals enjoy their life better or these menfolk. But why should we make this minor point a cause of conflict? We do not want to convert them to a particular faith/ We only want to co-exist with those who in their language are abnormal and who enjoy life as they wish and will.
Above all they who live life with a purpose enjoy it as much as those who do not. No less pleasure do they, who have been educated about the art of living, derive from their lives than those who grow like lucy far from the madding crowed in close communion with nature, or those who never see the rising sun as they return from their revelries late at night like Lord Byron.
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