Bandaging with Adages!

Nurturing those self-inflicted wounds with bandages of adages is a habit of ours. We rush to Adage-o-pathy to save ourselves from the pangs of guilt. We subscribe to this form of remedy as it is “for the greater good” and has nothing to do with certitude.

Some popular adage-bandages are :

What’s meant to be, will be.

This is the ‘Paracetamol’ of Adage-o-pathy.
Effect: It subdues all generic fevers.
Side-effect: Abstains the patient from working hard for ‘what’s meant to be’.

Time heals all wounds.

This is a hoax spread by time itself to increase patient subscription.
Effect: Like ‘Combiflam’, this gives you instant relief without acknowledging the cause of the pain.
Side-effect: Deceives the patient that he is cured completely while the ailment gnaws him.

Silence is golden.

This is an antidepressant for the eternally helpless.
Effect: Provides a pseudo solace as the patient justifies his act.
Side-effect: The weak and right suffer as the coward bystanders increase.

Each man for himself.

This is the explanatory justification of behaviour for those lacking kindness.
Effect: Justifies the ruthless behaviour and lets the patient boast of his new philosophy for the new millennium.
Side-effect: Not only the infected patient but also his well-wishers become prey to the horrendous diseases of unkindness. People need to think before they do good!

Where there is a Will, there is a Way.

A remedy for path-less people.
Effect: Keeps the hope of finding the ‘Way’ high.
Side-effect: It sugarcoats the next to nothing efforts of the patient instead of the alarm bells.
Adages have been and will remain true. But, let’s not fix our lies with truths that don’t fit.

Let’s manage our baggage damage without adage bandage and salvage our package from savage-d us!