In our age eccentricity has more coins in its
kitty than the normalcy of a person who believes in buying vegetables at a
cheaper rate. Eccentrics are genius so why should they bother about potatoes!
Eccentricity may not be over rated but it is celebrated more in our times. It
is almost like being an an ambition in itself with the coolest motto which goes
‘’I don’t care’’!!
Are we ruining the simplicity of things? Every
parent is naming the kid so difficult to pronounce that the child’s name is equal
to the coolness of their parents. Yes, that nod when one tells that his son’s
name is Priyavardhandev and then the surname off course.
Benjamin Franklin becomes a favorite because he
is a genius who is not an eccentric. He talks from saving a penny to the making
of nations. He is a leading author, printer, political theorist,renowned polymath, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, a diplomat and the first American. So it must not be a bad thing to
care a bit for everyone around us. I don’t mind Charles Bukowski’s poems but it
is nice to read an autobiography of a man who did simple things again and
again, whose identity is deeds done by him and not his personal resolves and
vows which become the hallmark of so many of our greats. His autobiography is
not complete, it starts with a calm and leaves you midway without being abrupt,
no wonder he was the first United States ambassador to France. Not once one
realizes that he or she is reading the words of one of the grandest personas of
our history. Simplicity of his days and writing is something which is difficult
to find even in the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi. “My Experiments with Truth”
is full of his aura. Benjamin Franklin does not hammer any grand principles but
he does his part everywhere he is. His realities are the perfect edit of a
movie to convey the thought and the inspiration followed by decisive action. A
married man with kids who cares for society and acts for it. Lovely.
