Context and presumptions

 

​Very good and useful observations.

 

Everything is contextual and hence must be contextualised or operated with contextual relevance or regional requirements. 

 

Few days  back I wrote about the importance of context to someone .

 

Few years back I had someone at Madras club during breakfast he asked for sausages and salmon. 

 

Without even listening to what he had asked for the waiter replies, yes, we have three sauce chilli, tomato and white and sambar we serve but for the main dish do you want bread sandwich, idli, vada, Pongal, dosa, idiyappam. I was having a hearty laugh. 

 

The problem is we think, rather presume that everything around happens as per the templates we already know/have/want and end up forgetting the world of contexts throws new and novel challenges hitherto, unknown and unencountered by us. 

 

In this context I cannot resist quoting these from Idries Shah the great Sufi scholar.

 

 

“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.” 
― Idries Shah

 

"You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.” ― Idries Shah.

 

Ultimate reality or truth is as Eric  Micha’el Leventhal says, “You are here on earth to unearth who on earth you are".