The Lack of Diversity

“He’s Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying”, this quotation fascinated me.

The words had such a powerful effect over me when I read it yesterday. It compelled me to write over its occult and esoteric interpretations. The maxim is basically the verse of a song by Bob Dylan, the world famous writer and song lyricist.

He offers us an insight to change the phenomenon that remains unchanged or isn’t changing. It’s to have infinite births and renewals and rebirths. To be in uniform mode is to be “busy dying”. It is really thought provoking. It steers thoughts towards growth.

It actually demands from people to throw out the wave of uniformity. It awakes us with the spirit of change.

But here is the point to be noted.  It doesn’t shelter a subject to adopt change but to be adaptable to change. The point is not to set a particular goal but to keep ourselves in this course and meet it through evolution. The change automatically gets adopted. If we set a goal, we stick to it and side outputs termed as by-products can’t be achieved.

There should be variety of thoughts and ideas, diversity in the ways we take things. An ideology of “sticking to one level” or “constant motion” is a bad approach barring the novel themes.

Diversity actually means change in the state or condition, under some circumstances, in any field with any scope, of any sort.

Evolution is basically essential for life. It’s the core and it’s the purpose. We should learn to grow and go through the process of evolving self.

I envision the rule of being changed, the change signifies the immortality and rebuts the mortal world. Because being mortal is being dead. It squeezes the essence out.

Iqbal also says:

“Jis mein na ho inqilab, mout hai woh zindagi

Rooh-e-ummam ki hayat kashmakash-e-inqilab”

“Life without change is death

The tumult and turmoil of revolution keep the soul of a nation alive”

The Turkish eminent Novelist Elif Shafak said once in her interview to British Council:

“In Turkey, we have failed to understand the value of cosmopolitanism, coexistence and diversity. By losing these, we have lost a lot.”

Change is something to adopt and embrace, not to avoid. We all should embrace diversity and cosmopolitanism with open hearts.

Life moves the same way the days and nights change and time moves. We have to be diverse and cosmopolitan in our attitudes. We have to move like time and change like days and nights.