Power

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant." (Measure for Measure)

Today my thoughts wandered around the importance of possessing physical strength. If someone was really that strong, I don't find any reason to blame them, if they'd behave arrogantly. Everything has a positive side to it, and comes free with it - also the counterpart of it. In some corner of my mind still lurks a thought, that the act of misusing power is absolutely unethical. But I'm a person who believes that there should be a proper balance of the positive and negative sides to any action, thought, substance - else it loses it's significance. As I see it, being physically strong is also a virtue. But I still adhere to my belief that with power and everything synonymous, one tends to be pulled across, over the border, to join those who crave for things, in the sense, are in complete control of lust and greed, reflecting a completely salacious part of them. Else, why is it that people really wish had power ?? Though some of them try to run away from themselves, they cannot erase the truth that it is indirectly the thirst for dominance creates the want for power. Let's go back to the "United we stand, divided we fall" policy. Agreed, that if there are enough people to outnumber and bash a strong fellow, he might not wish to put himself in the ascendant. But, the first fellow to go against him must be really bold, because by the time he tries to prove the adage right, the very notion might even cost him his life.

For example, if a gangster decides to hijack a plane, he can still be put in a helpless position, provided all people decide not to be intimidated, and instead pounce on him, the gangster won't even find space to shoot, I mean he would succesfully thrust his first two to three bullets, and then mobbed by the rest. But, I guess none would really prefer to be in those first ones who try to initiate the policy of uniting to escape from the imminent danger. Neither me. This is how strong people take care of the situation. When they realise that there is a strong opposition sighted in their way, they try to eliminate it in the incipient stages.

All this philosophy took birth due to the movie I saw today evening. I watched Yuva again. The way Big B 2 takes control over people is very savage. In many scenes he's remarked as a "Jaanvar" meaning animalistic in nature. Arjun fails to stop Lallan from trashing him in the hospital, but Michael is confident enough, he also beats him black and blue in the last fight scene. May it be Calvin from cartoons or may it be Arjun from Yuva, they had to be oppressed by a bully. Does physical strength really put people in a comfortable place ??