Power in being powerless

Power:- it is one of the most sought after commodities in today’s neck- breaking competitive scenario. In fact, money and power often compete among themselves to top the ”Things I Need to have to Lead a Good Life” list of the majority of people nowadays. And even though we are the most intelligent beings living on the earth at present, we tend to follow the path shown to us by our elders. Our situation is not very different from that of the worker ants. Thus, it is no wonder that people blindly follow the beaten path of accumulating as much money and power they can. But in this race to reach the top, we make the gravest folly;- we ignore the basic and the simplest truths of life. We fail to understand, rather we forget the fact that like every strength has a weakness, likewise every weakness has an inherent strength of its own. Powerlessness has a power of its own, Power of which everyone is aware but of whose true potential no one but a handful of people are conscious. This power is the ability to invoke sympathy in the minds of others. A child’s fallen face accompanied by a broken voice is enough to melt his mother’s heart and get his work done. In the same fashion, a wife convinces her husband to do some household chores. But, unintentional use of this power, fully driven by emotions seldom does reap any rewards as a little less may not not be good enough and overdo it a little and you end up drawing ire instead of sympathy. That is why, even though everyone tends to show themselves in a state of powerlessness to get their purpose served at some point of life, seldom do they succeed. In fact their condition is like that of a hungry man with loads of cans of food but with nothing to open tham. Thus he ends up dying of hunger. That is what happens with the crowd. But a chosen few manage to salvage a can opener from somewhere. It may be a gift of god or a lifetime spent on observing people  , but some people out there excel in the science of human behavior. These people have a custom made weapon which can be named as emotional bomb, named so as it relies on the use of powerlessness to draw sympathy from others. A person in an apparent state of powerlessness induces in a relatively better off person sympathy for him. This induction of sympathetic feelings, hence birth of emotion plays the main role in making a powerless person powerful. Emotions cloud the judgment of a person and  everyone of us does have a particular emotional weakness. These experts rely on this weakness to construct this bomb. Just the right amount of show of of right emotion at the right moment and Kaboom! The bomb melts the heart as it were made of wax and the best and the worst part is that the victim never knows that he has been attacked. The bomb never leaves behind the trace.  Even though we may not realize it, but this is exactly what beggars and reality T.V. shows try to do with the general public:- inducing sympathy by a show of powerlessness. The above two instances occur at a large scale but  you never know when someone may explode the bomb on you. You may as well have been hit by it and you will never know about it.Now that the potency of powerlessness has been discussed, a question may come up:- suppose there comes a day when every  human that walks on this earth becomes master in creating an emotional bomb of his own, then what will happen? As far as it can be fathomed, that will be the day when apocalypse truly strikes the earth as from that day onwards , we will stop trusting each other. Words like love, anger, greed, joy will become extinct  . The world will become emotionless, we will stop feeling  ,we shall become heartless and as a result, dead because someone has rightly said that:-

            “We can learn to live in a world devoid of money but not in a world devoid of emotions.”