Graphic Novels - forever people

Graphic novels - like Jazz, quite possibly are the one original contribution that the USA has made to contemporary literature.

And then of course, just like everything else, the Japanese have adapted this creation and made it their own, made it better.

But this isn't about the USA or Japan, this is about those forever people that continue to live through many fantasies in these worlds of the graphic novel.

Just a few days ago, I tried leafing through a few web pages of a graphic novel and found myself hopelessly disinterested, the feel of the paper and print - the genius of the greats like Neil Gaiman, Joeph Loeb, Geoff Johns and the likes coming to life in our hands - the attraction is instant.

When one thinks of these characters superheroes, super villians, super side kicks and all the other "Supers ", why is it that there is a strange sense of association - we aren't like them, we would never be.

Why is it that we identify sometimes with the Bat, or the Wolf or the Big Blue - when the bourgeois isn't about any of these.

Part of us - identifies with the duality that these characters have,

Part of us - is always white and black ( while most of us is somewhere in between ),

Part of us - means for our life to have a larger than life, "Framed as a poster " kind of meaning, part of us - and we can all admit it truly really wants to kick butt.

So - as a parting SHOT -

Flying isn't about dreaming, its about thinking beyond imagination

Being a hero - isn't about being a super hero, its about being an ideal

We can be truly free not in our dreams but in our beliefs for in our beliefs lies a superhero in each one of us.

Lets Fly.

Inescapable truth - acceptance and belief

Change as the metaphor suggests is the only constant.

Yet Change is also the also the one reality that confounds and confronts anyone who dares question it.

Why Question " Change " ?

And Why not Question " Change ".

A very radical view that one may present is the fact that under the excuse " Change is the only Constant ", unnecessary fads consistently present themselves as the new reality.

Truth is - Truth is the only constant and the world changes to revolve around it.

Truth - once understood, once accepted, once freed from its perceptive shackles is the only constant that would drive change, beliefs, behaviour and morals.

One must also understand this constant to find acceptance in one's own being.

An example :

A universal truth that may be proven many a time especially at the work place - there's almost never a scenario when one may utter a lie and not have to utter another one connected with the first lie.

A localized truth especially relevant to conflict - my reality is different from your reality because I am different from you - now acceptance of this truth results in acceptance of every change that may come with it.

Again,

A common misunderstanding - truth differs from person to person, no, it doesn't. Reality could, circumstances could, behavior could - but not truth.

All truth are true whatever the circumstance - the only thing that differs is the morality behind the truth.

Change is not constant, neither is reality, neither are taxes - the only constant is Truth.

In truth - we believe for believing in truth makes us true believers.