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“To what shall I compare this life of ours? Even before I can say, ‘it is like a lightning flash or a dewdrop’, it is no more”.
Well, that sounds like one of those clichéd lines that people begin writing with. However, if we stop to think about it-life is short. Not necessarily in the literal sense of the phrase. Look all around. All we see is poverty taking lives, corruption crushing dreams and diseases devouring our people. How many of us have heard heart-wrenching cries and chosen to turn a deaf ear? How many of us have seen children sleeping on the footpaths in the rains and chosen to turn a blind eye? Whether it is in our newspapers or on our television screens, there are rapes by the minute and murders by the hour. Terrorism is but another profession. People are dying around us. Not just physically but also in spirit. They have no jobs and an entire family to support. Imagine someone just after they’ve been detected with the HIV virus. In one second, his or her world crashes and ambitions vanish into thin air. Yes, that is what they call the “living dead”. Still, we CHOOSE to ignore all of this!
Earlier in this article, I mentioned the words ‘our people’. The reason I did that was because, if you come to think of it, under the many colours of our skins and beneath the facades, we are all pretty much the same. We are all humans- breathing, walking, talking and interacting in the same manner. All of us have a heart, don’t we? So why do we harden it so much? And that too towards human beings-like you and me! I think it’s time all of us woke up to the screaming needs of our communities, woke up to reality. Maybe we should stop grumbling about the government, the roads, the slums, and the population and instead, do something about it. Why wait for someone else to do the honours? We must give whatever little we can for the betterment of our society. After all, we live in it! The potential of a caring nature is great. It could bring about a million smiles and work miracles for a few more.
I used to be one of those who would have answered a very guilty ‘yes’ to both the questions in the starting paragraph. However, thanks to an exchange programme, through which I learnt about Deep Griha, my perspective has been altered reasonably and I decided to volunteer here for a while. Well, it’s not that I’ve become a Mother Teresa or a saint overnight, but, at least now I’m aware of the threatening social issues staring at us in the face; and at least now, I can say all of this and not sound hypocritical. It can be one of the most satisfying jobs to do. You don’t have to be a philanthropist neither do you have to start a social movement or something. Only be a person who cares enough for another. That itself could create a whole new world for someone else. As I said before, life is short. So why not make it worth the while…
Well, that sounds like one of those clichéd lines that people begin writing with. However, if we stop to think about it-life is short. Not necessarily in the literal sense of the phrase. Look all around. All we see is poverty taking lives, corruption crushing dreams and diseases devouring our people. How many of us have heard heart-wrenching cries and chosen to turn a deaf ear? How many of us have seen children sleeping on the footpaths in the rains and chosen to turn a blind eye? Whether it is in our newspapers or on our television screens, there are rapes by the minute and murders by the hour. Terrorism is but another profession. People are dying around us. Not just physically but also in spirit. They have no jobs and an entire family to support. Imagine someone just after they’ve been detected with the HIV virus. In one second, his or her world crashes and ambitions vanish into thin air. Yes, that is what they call the “living dead”. Still, we CHOOSE to ignore all of this!
Earlier in this article, I mentioned the words ‘our people’. The reason I did that was because, if you come to think of it, under the many colours of our skins and beneath the facades, we are all pretty much the same. We are all humans- breathing, walking, talking and interacting in the same manner. All of us have a heart, don’t we? So why do we harden it so much? And that too towards human beings-like you and me! I think it’s time all of us woke up to the screaming needs of our communities, woke up to reality. Maybe we should stop grumbling about the government, the roads, the slums, and the population and instead, do something about it. Why wait for someone else to do the honours? We must give whatever little we can for the betterment of our society. After all, we live in it! The potential of a caring nature is great. It could bring about a million smiles and work miracles for a few more.
I used to be one of those who would have answered a very guilty ‘yes’ to both the questions in the starting paragraph. However, thanks to an exchange programme, through which I learnt about Deep Griha, my perspective has been altered reasonably and I decided to volunteer here for a while. Well, it’s not that I’ve become a Mother Teresa or a saint overnight, but, at least now I’m aware of the threatening social issues staring at us in the face; and at least now, I can say all of this and not sound hypocritical. It can be one of the most satisfying jobs to do. You don’t have to be a philanthropist neither do you have to start a social movement or something. Only be a person who cares enough for another. That itself could create a whole new world for someone else. As I said before, life is short. So why not make it worth the while…
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