speaking tree

It's the daily column on the edit page of ToI. Now to be really frank, ToI, i don't think, is a great newspaper. Especially this Ahmedabad edition, where everyday on the front page you will find a news where some Gujju has achieved something. It's a newspaper's duty to publish such events, but ToI, Ahmedabad, i feel is highly biased in such matters. The Speaking Tree, on the other hand, has no such regional issues; yet, i have borne a prejudice against this article, thinking that it always carries heavily loaded, un-understandable philosophical or moral stuff.
But today's article was quite entertaining to read. It has a thought in it that made me smile gently, instantly. The writer asks why don't we blame the fire if it spreads accidentally and causes damage. Or why don't we question a person who's admiring beauty of the Moon on a clear night. It's because, he says, it is natural; a fact about such things that we have understood very well, accepted fully, and learnt to live with. In what follows, the writer furthers the thought where he replaces fire and the Moon with people. He proposes that learning to accept people as they are, and by not having too many or over-ambitious expectations from them, will help us live our lives more happily. Now the thing about such arguments is that if put in sweet words, they look pretty convincing to me. So much so, that several times, both the the 'View' and the 'Counter-View' -- again from ToI's edit page -- seem equally appealing. But in the present case, one can immediately ask if that implies that we should mutely accept even the ill things around us, and not do anything about it? Well, he doesn't dwell on that, but giving him the benefit of doubt, i would say he implies no such thing.
But that's not the point at all i want to emphasize upon. I aint sure if it struck many to question fire as to why does it burn things down? You can put a thousand scientific fundaes explaining the properties of fire, but there can always be a final unanswerable 'why'.
It feels nice to read such things, gives me a reason to post regularly. Speaking Tree is, after all, not such a bore. As for ToI, it's somewhat like orkut, you know it's no good, stuff it has doesn't have great value, but still you go for it everyday.
Old habits, dude, ...