Schmucks

Watched a good movie- Dinner for Schmucks. Did not find it very remarkable or worthy of critical acclaim, 2* movie. But deals with a very good thought. About how we rate our success or achievements in life, how we sometimes under-rate people around us. People who are apparently schmucks or idiots because they don't conform to rules set out by the society, engrossed in their own pursuit of creativity and happiness.


We who follow the beaten track, run madly after something called 'success'. We like everything safe and assured. We want a huge salary, a big house, a posh car, high society parties. We cannot tolerate people who do not think the same way, who are idiots or schmucks to our perception because they do not conform. People who take 'The Road Not Taken' are not fools; they see things in a different way, maybe in more meaningful ways than the so called 'successful bugger'. As Frost has said,


"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."


It takes guts and conviction to follow the untrodden path. Whether we denigrate such people as schmucks or celebrate them as adventurers, as discoverers, as pathfinders, they hardly care. They do what they are out their to do, so fellow consumers mind your own business.


PS: Discovered a new classification for humankind,
           1. Those that are consumers,
           2. Those that are schmucks....
     Looking for more......