Philosphers

A great French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre ,who is famous for theory of Existentialism and was awarded Nobel Prize in 1964, which was however ,refused by him, has also founded the philosophy of ...Cyclic Meaninglessness of life.Many books and plays were written by well known authors on this theme.Film 27 Down was produced and directed by Sh.Autar kaul, which won Presidents award in early seventies was also depicting the same theme.The film could not see the light of day due to sudden death of Sh.Kaul and loan burden on the film .Let us first discuss what cyclic meaninglessness of life means.It means that life of all people revolve in one cycle. Every person is born , educated and then there is job hunting marriage ,children, rearing of children and death.Then there is repetition of another cycle which appears meaningless to some thinkers.                     One Urdu poet has also written a couplet on the same lines...Fikere maash, Ashke butan yade raftagan, is zindagi me kya kya Kare koyee.....which means that we do only three things in life and I.e. economic worries, idol worshipping and Nostalgia. In life we move around a scheduled cycle and we don't go beyond that.In youth there is a rebellion in every person and he wants to do something different but with advanced age every person compromises with life and treads the same path. But a few who determine to go beyond this cycle, either become great persons or perish. As no one requires introduction of great persons but sometimes we think of unsung hearos who ventured not to tread the beaten path and were lost.  I will narrate a story of a person who had a rebellion in him and he never compromised with traditions in life, but died very young. Later a friend of him wrote following lines on his grave stone
Here lies the man. who never compromised in his life. but now the flowers growing on his grave show the sighns of reconciliation.