Mahabharata & Other Vedic-Based TV Series Phenomenon

Mahabharata, Mahadeva, and Ramayana are Indian TV series that have been so popular lately in Indonesia. Men & women, adults & children, rich & poor, almost every layer of society are enchanted by the series. Not sure what people actually look for, whether the stories or the hunky studs, but they are oblivious to the passage of time when it comes to hours of the series being played.

I find it somewhat baffling that many Indonesians are fine watching the series, especially knowing that most of Indonesians are much attached to their religious views. Specifically speaking, the hard-liners of Muslims and Christians usually voice out that their Semitic belief are the only righteous one, hence they reckon other teachings as occultism; this time, however, they don't.

The Fool and The Wise; I Don't Want To Be The Wise

I don’t want to be the wise man.

I don’t want to be the oldest child.

I want to be like my little brother and sister who can blame on me for the mistakes they make in family. I want to be like them who get defended by parents when I point out at their wrongness, and I am the one becoming responsible to bear the scold instead. I want to be like my little brother who asks for opinion because of being carefree about his own life. I want to be like my little sister who complains and gets upset when she has to face hardship and demands me to help her out anyhow. I want to be them who don’t have to learn every single thing because they know I will be the one who makes sure to know (almost) everything so they can just come and ask me in times of unknowingness.

I don’t want to be the big brother.

I want to be like my little brother and sister who can be afraid of anything in whatever situation and can be clueless about life because they know it’s going to be my role to lend hands and bend my backs for them to leap, and hug them telling it’s going to be okay to stop their cry of fear. I want to be like them who can be selfishly indecisive and to make mistakes because they know I will appear giving advices to them and lectures so that they can have guidance for next time. I want to be like them who can always feel secure and thus ask me to be always by their sides because they know I will be the fence of strength for them.