Humans... Choices...

How do you judge a person? Is there some mechanism to find out what a persons character is really like? "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face"... Oh! how true is that!
Some people are good at figuring out a person's real intentions, but there are silly little girls like me who either can't judge, or who judge too soon.
People change, sometimes for the better... but how does one who has known them before distinguish the change. After all, man is the master of deception. It could all be an outward facade hiding sinister intentions. On the other hand, a guy who is a compulsive smoker and slightly alcoholic may actually have a good heart, but may be forced into doing something against his will. Though of course, i don't believe in that... in the sense that, Everyone has a choice, to do the right thing or the wrong thing... and as it was emphasized in Harry Potter, it's the choices that make the man.
Then why do people choose to do the wrong thing ?Do they get a thrill out of breaking the rules? maybe! Are their brains affected clinically? I doubt that. Or are they just weak-willed? That i believe is the main reason for succumbing to things like peer-pressure. Why is it always that a guy becomes a drinking, bearded "devdas" if the "love of his life", his "jaan" leaves him? I don't get it? Maybe a few of those couples were actually in love, but if the girl has left the guy then its obvious that it was just a one-sided thing right from the start, or somewhere in between!
Again we come back to the question of how do u figure out what a person is thinking? I mean that maybe the girl in the aforementioned relationship was leading the guy on, cos she was too scared to admit to him that she didn't in fact love him!
It is only Homo sapiens that has this kind of trouble. Maybe with having a more complex mind and brain, and with advancement and development, a higher price is paid. But wait, we know that fact for sure. I mean, by urbanisation, look at the problems created in this world, right from population sprawl to global warming to spread of deadly diseases. And urbanization is just one example!
People care. People don't care. :
People care about their well-being, fame, fortune etc etc. People don't care about global health, consequences of their mistakes and basically things that don't concern them. But that's where people are wrong! Anything that is a global concern, is a matter of worry for all individuals. Do you think that by being the richest man on earth, or the most beautiful woman, when the final and inevitable destruction of the earth comes, you'll be saved?? Not a chance in hell!
I use the word inevitable lightly, because in reality, the destruction is not inevitable. It is quite avoidable in fact! We just have to begin looking at the bigger picture... at things that are important. Mass education... or rather, Mass awareness is what we need. And frankly, we've made a few good positives strides in that direction. But the thing that has to be gotten rid of is Mass Indifference. And that's not something a government or an international organisation can just get rid of. The people, the public, and especially, the future generations of the world, have to forget this feeling, and not inherit it! The future has to care... not only for their well-being, but for the well-being of the world.
It is a choice again... Whether you recycle the soda can or dump it in the trash. Whether you turn off the light when you leave the room, or let it stay on, you're paying for it anyway! Whether you refuse the plastic bag, or accept it and re-use it, or accept it and dump it without a second thought. Everyday we face choices like this, small things that may seem inconsequential now. But many small seemingly inconsequential acts add up to one large, gigantic problem, or solution, depending on the act! Everyone knows that they face choices, they know the right choice, but are too damn lazy and too damn selfish to make that choice. They go to conventions, join groups trying to preserve the earth, preach what they don't practice and listen to instructions and lectures taking them in through one ear and letting them out the other, without retaining a word! Isn't it high time that we stepped up and became proactive.
There's a lot to life that we wont see or enjoy if we don't take remedial measures and force or rather coax our elders too. After all, all of this is what they taught us. They chose to pass on their knowledge (and i dont say wisdom cos wisdom is something you gain from experience) to the younger generations saying its too late in their lives for them to do anything! But is it? What if they live to be a 100 yrs old, the the 50-yr olds who passed on the responsibility had enough and more time to fix atleast his mistakes.
Using light and candle as metaphors for good deeds...
"It is better to light just one little candle than to stumble in the dark
Better far that you light, just one little candle, all you need's a tiny spark"
".. if everyone lit just one little candle what a bright world this would be"

Are we really good people? or is that our exterior?
Do we do the right thing because its the right thing? Or do we do it for fame and recognition?
Do we want to show a system that its wrong, and so start doing wrong things ourselves?

Isn't it time to get our priorities right? Isn't it time to push our way through barriers of "fear of being different" set up by the many generations before us and actually break out of the norm?

The essential question is:
Are you one of the mindless zombies who do things that the crowd does?
Or do you dare to be different?