Silliness of Rationality

Rationality is associated with knowledge, with intelligence, with maturity. But often that rationality is an expression of silliness. If being rational means you limit your dreams, then being rational is something we should never be. If it means leaving behind your emotions, then being rational is inhumane.

If you are someone who hates being bonded, being tied behind boundaries then rationality is some silly little thing that does just that to you. It ties you down behind illusionary doors. Behind rituals, behind orthodoxy, behind maturity.

Rationality strangles creativity. Creativity needs liberation, liberation from conventions and mundane. To get away from all this you need to move away from the sensibilities which are forced upon us along the way. Forced though education, through learning, through tradition.

What is the rationality behind dancing on the streets, eating unhygienic street food, calling a 6" 4' man "chotu". The answer is NONE. And along the way as we grow older become more "matured", we will be more rational. There would be no fights for food, for girls, for who was wrong because we would be more rational, take decisions with our brains. We will start using the heart lesser. Taking decisions by heart is not supposed to be rational. Because rationality seeks reasons. Can anyone tell me the reason behind this?(anyone who's rational)

In our rationality we leave out the space for emotions. Emotions that make you human. Rational decision making is for robots. That work on algorithms. That work on set routines, the perfectly rationals. Is that what we aim for in our lives. In growing up we lose out on childishness that was carefree, serene and the most pristine emotion. In rationality we lose out on the crazyness, madness, the utter stupidity that create memories.

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old."

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