Just Being a Mere Spectator

Difficult? Perhaps yes. Impossible? Definitely not. Over the days, the learned and popular philosophers have expressed the thought that being a spectator often allows one to maintain an objective stand. 

In school, while we were asked to write argumentative essays, we were often told to pick up a side, and write either for the motion or against the motion and not be neutral. Even as a student of journalism, while watching the ‘Newshour’ on a prime English news channel, where most panellists would be fighting amongst each other to hog the limelight and place their views, there would, amongst those rare numbers be those panellists, that’d be speaking only when spoken to, and remaining of the time, they’d just be watching others talk. Being just a mere spectator. 

A sight pretty rare, especially among panellists whose major job is to speak, and let others not to speak, thereby putting across their viewpoints. However, being a spectator just for the sake of it, is definitely unseen and unheard of. 

While one chooses just to be a spectator, thereby taking a step back from their regular practice of talking, it unfolds a lot of opportunities and simplifies situations. We’d perhaps remember this, when we were young, we’d be told to speak less, and observe more. Not only would that be helping in developing a good personality while talking, but also assist in looking at things from a different perspective altogether. 

I recollect those instances when since childhood, we were taught to differentiate between good and evil, where necessarily good and evil were being determined as per societal standards. Going by those same standards, Satan has always bore the brunt of being evil, ruthless and horrendously demonic. But, in our lives, did we ever want to analyse as to what was wrong with Satan, and why’d he have to don the evil cap? 

Again, perhaps we might choose to be spectators, and then we could fathom as to where would things actually stand. Not before that. Initially, while beginning to write about this, I wondered whether I should begin with an interrogative or imperative sentence, yet while concluding, I guess it’d be wise to end it with a task and a choice. A choice and a task to remain a mere spectator.