Saanams Mind

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde
“ A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word” Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have wondered about suspicious people, who always look for negative underlined meanings in everything one says and feel so sad for them as they have no faith in the words of another human. What makes people cynical in life? Is it life’s experiences , or is the world so bad that any good words are also viewed with suspicion as to what does that person want…Has life become such a business transaction that people look for what they gain even from simple words uttered. Is it hard to find people who mean what they say from their heart or is the world so bad that even when you mean something from your heart , another meaning is searched for within the words you utter….

I read somewhere…I’d change my cynical view of the world but its all I have left at the end of the month. Saddens me to think the simple joys of living, simple words of care, simple words said just to make someone happy all seem to come at a big price these days…you get paid back with suspicion, distrust, anger, sarcasm etc… saddens me to think there is hardly any goodness seen in anything one does its all about investment n returns .

Would this cynicism go away. It saddens me further that with each passing day I am more n more disappointed in human nature I am more n more saddened by the distrust..the suspicion and the lack of faith gets to me.:) Would things change???Or am I headed towards a world of cynicism?

“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” Leon Trotsky