The Profound, the Trivial and the Absurd

Abhishek Paul
1 min readApr 30, 2019

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I’ve caught myself seeing the mundane and the profound coexist in the same setting and marvelled at how it doesn’t even make us bat an eyelid.

At a recent vigil in honour of the Easter bombing victims in Sri Lanka, I was part of a small gathering on the beach. This was a solemn occasion, but to the people gathered there the focus was more on ensuring that the candles stayed lit in the breeze, to position oneself in a way to maximize the chances of appearing on camera and blindly following the directions of the press photographers. If this wasn’t bad enough, I saw someone taking selfies as well. All of this at a gathering to honour the death of about 300 people. Most people took this behaviour as par for the course — we truly are living in the theatre of the absurd!

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