My Rendezvous with Reason

The best part about thinking is that there is no boundary, no scrutiny and no reprisal of any sort. The one thing that connects all living things is its undeniable spirit of thinking, making use of a flow that has no course to turn, no route to follow. We are present and accorded with certain level of familiarity because of our connectivity to losing history. History is debatable and ensures high drama and even melancholy, nonetheless. History is full of personalities so diverse and so magnetic that we often end up cursing the timing of our existence. These greats are not great because they are oblivious of our judgment. They are handed superiority because they conquered their own space of time and measures.

And who wouldn't like to cross the Rubicon and defy the threshold of time. Who wouldn't wish to sit calm down and have a rendezvous with some of the finest figures we know and would like to know better?

There are three eminent figures I would like to have a chat with. These are Rasputin, Jesus Christ and Mohammad. The reason for the choice of each of this personality is interesting because all of the personalities are cloud in a distinct fog of vagueness and ambiguity. I can't judge any of these figures without getting in to the skin of their exterior and internal turbulence. They all faced a unique distraught in their later life, a mist so thin to overcome. The reason why I have chosen these three fine individual is not answerable because the choice was limited to three. Or else there would have been many a great names attached too. Anyways, each personality here is diverse and each is endowed with a prodigious quality of sustaining against odds.

The first one is Rasputin; I want this man on my dinner arrangement because of the sheer clout that this man wore that commanded reasoning but no virtual singular answer. I would like to interrogate how he could manage with such peculiar subtlety when it was confounded that he was satanic at one point of time. May be, his political conquest doesn't interest me much as much as his sexual prowess and masculine endowment. I understand the basic fact that this inquisition raises the question of vulgarity but that's what legends are made of, I guess. I would ask him what made him go so easy even with a blessed nun and don't ask about what he could do with a damsel in tow! He was a monk, at least that's what everyone else believed. He was precarious, no doubt, he was hardly gentle. But I would like to ask him how he could foresee the monarch even through the thick blizzards of Siberia. I would like to ask him whether he was really in love with Queen Alexandria. I would like to question every aspect of his being, every facets of his personality which is still debatable to open table. There is no doubt that Rasputin was the foremost in the annals of history when it turned towards the twentieth century, to make a long lasting change on not only Russia but eventually to the world through the face of concluding World Wars. He can never be called a good man and thankfully, he never wanted to be called that way by the coming generation. He was out there just to overcome his guilt of not being able to overcome the temptation of sin by overwhelmingly embracing it more and more. He was nothing more than a black robed monk when he set his foot onto the soil of St. Petersburg. He was not a healer of any kind, though he made some of his protégés deem him that way. My chat will be full discomforting inquiries that would embarrass him but I'm sure he would be able to face off such travesty with ease, given his repertoire of staying calm even while facing the eyes of death. If legends are to be believed, it got so difficult of assassinate him that even poison embedded in cake couldn't muster itself against a soulless monk like him. The British agents couldn't give an exact explanation as to why this attempt got distraught! He was killed at last, they say, by drowning in a river, and in spite of the cold icy water, when they retrieved the body; they found the body, to their awe, with hands stuck out at the ice, as if trying to overcome the hatchet of death. It would be quite a site to see those looming eyes while facing my stringent queries!

The second personality on my list is Jesus Christ. The man whose birth defined time and chronicles is sure to be exuding some charm of enigmatic coruscation. My first question to this bright soul would be how did you gathered your trust in the Almighty and faced such brutality. I can't imagine the pangs and stigmata of being on the other side of rope and asking the mass to come over to your side. I'm still ill-informed in trying to contemplate it either as wisdom or coincidence. The very picture of this man on a cross is exhilarating and reminds of sacrifice for unknown and even unjust. Jesus Christ was literally the most extraordinary thing to happen to humanity. He was nonetheless a loser then when he was along with hardly two dozen of faithful and thinking of overruling statistics. He carried the faith of not only humans but even God, I guess. So that would surely make this conversation a lot more intriguing and enlightening.

The third target is Prophet Mohammed and this man, a merchant by profession could easily go down as the most unassuming person ever. An uneducated man with hardly a knack of eloquence, no man management skill of any sort could move seep into the psyche of every human being ever born on Arabian Desert and then slowly moving to the other parts of the globe with incessant success. This man is a phoenix of medieval world. He may be controversial but still glitters bright among others.