Volume : 3, Issue : 11, NOV 2017
OF SECOND-HAND
DIBAKAR PAL
Abstract
Second-hand thing means previously owned by somebody else. A man or woman, similarly, may be second-hand if be deserted. Re-marriage, second flowering of love, etc. are indication of second-hand involvements. Now, the concept of second-hand in case of human beings mostly relates to physiological involvements. But, this is not all. Sadly, we ignore mental i.e. psychological entanglement that is more powerful. Mind dominates body; the reverse, however, is not true. The society cares for physical union, not for psychological involvement. This way of the society is queer. In true sense, nobody is first-hand. Nothing is first-hand. In fact the earth itself is a second-hand thing. For it was captive in the hand of the sun that after using threw it in the space just to make it move round its master making it second-hand. So the present author, his fiancée, the readers and anything from pin to elephant i.e., all the animate and inanimate objects existing on this planet is second-hand. A curious reader may say – how is it possible? The reply is – if a second-hand machine is purchased then all the parts of it must be second-hand. But we all are basically third-hand by birth as the earth itself is second-hand and is liable for the birth of both living and non-living being existing on it as third-hand. In other words a newborn babe is third-hand by birth and it may acquire some more hands according to its deeds throughout its entire life span. Now, a newborn babe, in absolute sense is not only third-hand rather an infinite-hand by birth. But it is contradictory as well as confusing since we have just confessed the third-hand of a newborn babe. For the fact is that the scientists opine that the earth was obtained from the sun that was come by from another star that again came into existence from another star and so on. Simply it is a chain process of endless phenomena. And innumerable intermediary steps involved therein make a new born babe infinite-hand by birth.
Keywords
First-hand, Second-hand, Re-marriage, Re-birth, Infinite-hand.