Prediction, order, God and randomness

Yes i do know that i use the word Random a lot. Its even up there near the title, but my liking is not the topic of this post. I have been reading and hearing a few things about beliefs and religion, and have ended up i don't know where, its always safer to know one side of the story, then u can truly say what u believe to be the truth, u know both sides and there u are, ending up having an argument for every question that the any of the sides puts up(and let alone the possibility that there may not be only a two sides of a coin).

We all love to know whats going to happen, and we live our lives in trying to make our life predictable, to order things in ways that wont fail, in ways that make us comfortable with the outcome, and for that bit which we cant predict we call god, the one who knows all, after all "if i don't know it at least someone does" is a pretty reassuring thought. The idea of randomness does not do a great lot for the times when we need to stop from breaking down in distress. For the times when things happen that we did not desire. Try telling someone who has lost someone in an accident that their loved ones are dead because of all the millions of possible ways of things happening this was what happened, and it was for no reason, no justification, no purpose greater than a probability of occurrence, and i am sure the person will know first hand one of the possible way that he may die(unless of course he is lucky enough to be talking to a mathematician). And maybe that's why we need god, to account for what we cant control, what we cant understand, and what we cant revert.

I have never had any problems with religion as such, its only that there are so many of them. I personally don't have enough faith to be an atheist, but i really liked a quote i came across recently --
" All of us are atheists, only, some of us, take it one god further "

But is there ever going to be a day when we wont need god, i don't think so, Unified theory or no unified theory, there will always be days when one would need to stop reasoning, calculating, thinking and just lie down knowing that everythings gonna be all right... And for that well, god is a really small word to say.

The need for art... The need for pride...

I was on a trip to Mussorie recently, and realized something, art or rather just the act of making things beautiful means a lot more in life than immediately apparent. The town is a tourist spot, and that must be the reason why the city is so well decorated. There are murals along the roads, the bus stops en route are artistically designed. It just felt good to walk through the streets, the feeling i later recognized was one of pride and content. Its almost like being at home. Of being nurtured, the road was more than just a path to another place but an end unto itself, it symbolised that it was not the destination that one must look forward to but the journey.

I feel that it is this very feeling that lacks in India today. The feeling of being more that just "this will do the job", because in such a case there is very little to inspire, it does not suggest that we are doing more than just surviving, we are thriving. And as far as i know that feeling is very important for a society to coexist peacefully. Because a person will feel happy only when he is well to do and has more to spare. The need of the hour is therefore not just to build a nation but to do it with elegance, we need to make it such that we are proud of everything that we see, and they don't remind us to things that have gone wrong but things that went right. We do the same thing at our homes. We buy a house, and don't just stay satisfied with the walls and the furniture but more than that we make it a place worth coming back to, we decorate it, we make it a place where we keep our memories. All that we need to do is to extend the same to our surroundings. Lets stop the "chalta hai(will do)" and start giving ourselves more than we need. So that we can strive for more than we thought we could achieve.