www.despair.com

One of my colleagues sent me this link recently. I went into wondering what it is, I was in for a surprise. There is so much tasteful design that has gone into this website. The site has an exclusive online store, which sells posters and photographs with specially crafted words that ooze desperation…It seemed really funny to me, in the beginning. But, think a bit. Do they really mean to build desperation into people’s lives? Like any other companies, this one too has to have a goal in mind. Reading through the pages of their site, I understood that it is to free people, who are so much taken into by the teaching of the so-called expert motivators, from the desperate situation of being despaired because they just discovered that what they just heard from the ‘experts’ doesn’t work in their own lives. Why is that? Simply because, words such as motivation, motivator, motivate etc are all mis-leading, they are rather mis-nomers. There is nothing called as motivation, unless it comes from within. Nobody will ever be able to motivate you, unless you yourselves are determined to be there. We will discuss about it more in another post. But, for now, let me return to the discussion.

At least some of you will agree with me that people behind this effort can’t be desperate with their own lives. As for the others, please give it a thought. If they were indeed desperate, they would never have had such a thought as creating this very site. To me, they seem to some of the best innovators, some of the best optimists. These people believe that, with their wit and sarcasm, they can educate all of us, against such impractical ideas as motivating people and much more. Together, they are doing a service to the society and they are true believers of what they do. Hence, they are optimistic, and not pessimistic or desperate.

Looking at it from another angle, it has also been long proven that negatives doesn’t all the time remain negative. Negatives tend to become positive, inherently. It is fundamental to any material object in the world, to come to and remain in equilibrium. For example, a pendulum can’t obviously swing only to the left, but should swing to the right as well and ultimately will come to the centre sometime in its lifecycle. We are all material beings, so it affects us too. In a way, negatives help to highlight the positives. Sometimes, they even bring positives up. After all, it is a magnet, with its positive and negative poles (of equal intensity) that runs a whole big motor and the generator, which produces electricity that runs the whole world. Think about it.