Kedar Writes..

P2P or Person-to-Person is a series of observations I have made about interpersonal interactions that take place in this world. These are always complex transactions that can influence things on the smallest scale such as buying groceries, say, to things on a bigger scale such as say, foreign policies of nations.

First and foremost fact of the matter is that – Every individual, is eventually on his own, in P2P. He may share a similar ‘Viewpoint’ (see ‘Viewpoint’ later), but he is always alone.

Viewpoint:

I believe, Viewpoint is the most important concept in P2P. Every person has a viewpoint of his own and he is the master and Mr Right in that viewpoint. A man’s whole life is a story of his viewpoint and his tussle trying to sell his viewpoint to the world.

There comes a time in everybody’s life when one wonders why people around him behave the way they do. And it is amazing to note that most of these people are not conventionally bad people per se, but just people with a different viewpoint.

One is always free to judge others in a situation and conclude that others are wrong. But again, that is just his own viewpoint. Is there a universal viewpoint then? There is one about certain things – so even though murderers and thieves might have a viewpoint, one has to apply the rule of law here. This is just an extreme case though.

For everyday matters and normal people around us, personal viewpoints are almost always disputable. Relativity plays an important role. What is right or what is wrong, is local to everybody’s viewpoint. But still people go around passing judgements, unaware of all the parameters that make the other person behave the way he does.

Even a child has a viewpoint and from that viewpoint, throwing tantrums is a way to get what he rightfully deserves. A viewpoint could make a midas out of every man or a despot if one is powerful enough. Thankfully as time goes by, experience wears off some of these extreme misconceptions.

But a more firm crust takes shape on top of a person’s core self aware individuality. This crust prevents the reality from reaching one’s self. It forms a cocoon where one’s self lives with his viewpoint. It feeds itself with more and more of his own contrived convictions and reasoning.

Things would be so much different in P2P if only it was easy and each one of us could crack through the shell to look outside.