Wrong turn.....

The day started just like the other normal days; but ended with painful news. Two students of my college died in an accident. Yesterday they were laughing and having fun with their friends, at that time no one had thought that they are spending the last day with them. Today there is silence everywhere, all are afraid of losing their pals. In a month or so, one of them was about to have the marriage of his sister, he was personally inviting everyone. Till yesterday his parents were preparing for the marriage of their daughter; and today they are trying to control their tears, trying to swallow the fact that their son is no more. The house which was about to witness a marriage, which was about to see happiness, is now filled with the sounds of crying hearts.

One can not blame anyone for such a tragic incident, because no one makes such mistake willingly; but still we can easily find various cases in the newspaper like road accidents, someone getting drowned, etc. many of which take place just because of the carelessness of the person, that carelessness may be in the form of rash driving, driving your vehicle after consuming alcohol or any of the other form. Teenagers can be easily find committing such mistakes, but if you’ll say something to them then all you’ll get to hear from them is ‘I know what I am doing; it’s my life, let me do whatever I want to; I know what is good for me; I am not a kid’ etc etc. I completely agree with them, they definitely know what they are doing, they have an understanding of good and bad and of course they are not kids at all; but still, at any age, there is no harm in being on the safer side.

I accept that a teenager always loves speed, loves to try new things in life, and he wants to be adventurous, cool and popular; for which he performs various activities, which according to him are a necessity; but while performing them he forgets that his act can also affect the life of the people who are attached with him, who care for him and who are living just for him. If a person tells us something, we say “why the hell does he keep telling me what is right;” but we never think about the fact that the person who scolds us, actually worries about us; for him our career, our life and we ourselves really mean a lot; but we instead of thanking him, start hating that person. We think that they do not want us to live our life in the way we want, but actually they just want us to be on the right path, they just don’t want us to get hurt.

Normally while having fun, we become careless about things; and sometimes that carelessness turns out to be too costly. So it is not about making your life dull; but is about being a bit watchful. Do whatever you feel like, live your life to the fullest, but just stay alert, be a bit careful. This life is not only yours; it also belongs to your parents, to your friends and to everyone who worries about you. Your one small mistake can take their life into deep darkness. So before doing anything stupid, think about your parents once, who have sacrificed their whole life just to make you something, just to see you happy. Think about your friends, who always want you to stand by their side; think that your one small stupidity can make their life just like hell. So live your life, enjoy your life, do great things, but be safe, and be a bit careful.

Two different worlds....

I was at home to celebrate the festival of colors and there I saw something which was really very interesting and joyous. On the day prior to Holi, some kids came to my house and asked me to give them some amount of money saying that they are collecting it for the Holi celebration; so I happily gave the amount they asked for and then they proceeded to the next door. Next day they came and gave me an invitation card made by them, at night when everyone gathered at the place where ‘Holika dahan’ was to be done, the kids served everyone with cold drinks and wafers; in this whole event one could easily observe the bright smile on the face of each and every kid, they were all happy. The most remarkable thing in this event was that, half of those kids were from the Muslim families, but equally they all were blithe. And the very next day they were also playing with the colors, with the same energy.

The incident that I narrated above takes place at very few places, we often find people saying ‘Muslims are bad, they don’t deserve to be in India, all Muslims are terrorists etc etc…..’And then when a Muslim replies them back, they say ‘see, what I said.’ This is what happens; but who is wrong here? It is obvious that if one throws something upwards then what he’ll get in return is the shower of the same thing; so if you hate someone, you can not expect love in return. We really need to understand this fact. We start teaching our children from their childhood that Hindus or Muslims are not good, you should not be with them; by our deeds we make them learn the art of hatred, and when they grow they teach the same to their children; and this is how the chain of hatred keeps on growing, it never ends. We keep blaming the others for this hatred but never realize that it was us who planted and nourished this tree of evil. See the incident stated above, there no kid is interested in knowing the religion of the other, they are just flowing in the river of happiness; but will they remain the same as they grow old? I don’t think so, we’ll not let them be what they are; we’ll change them and will make them just like the rest of the world, just like what we all are.

Actually none of the kids want to fight, because kids don’t have to do anything with regions or religions; all they know is, if you shower a small amount of love on them then they give you a much higher amount of love in return. You can easily find two small kids fighting for a tiny thing, but the very next day or just after few hours you can also notice them playing together. This happens because they never keep anything in their heart. All these small things they do at the time when we claim to have a more developed brain say that kids do not understand anything, they do not possess an understanding to differentiate between good and bad; still they live in a world which is better than ours; a place where no war exists, where nothing is hidden in anyone’s heart, where everybody loves and trusts each other, and a place where all are pure to the depth of their soul. On the other side, think what we elders have; a world full of crime, full of hatred, where everyone is selfish, where everyone talks about war, and where every heart is dark on the inside.

Now, what does this mean? According to me, it means that we may be bigger, we claim to have an understanding of the world, but if it’s about love and peace; we lack far behind our kids. Why do we try to make them like us, when we know that our world is not what it should have been? There is still time, we can still learn the art of harmony and peace from our children.

There is a lot that we can learn from the kids, the art of being humans first, the art of being happy, and the art of understanding each others’ heart. And if we want to make our world and life beautiful and peaceful than we must start learning today itself. We must understand that there is no harm in learning from our younger ones; they might teach us something which we have forgotten while swimming with the waves of this selfish world.