Blind,deaf or dumb???

Blind, deaf and dumb???

1.He was one of my best friends. We usually share everything in life. We were friends from childhood. I have read somewhere that people who are friends for more than seven years will be friends forever. We were friends for more than seven years so I was pretty sure we will be forever. But one of the things I don’t like about him is that he smokes a lot. I wanted to tell him to stop smoking as it is not good for health. But I didn’t, I felt hesitant to speak up. He said that he smokes a lot every day. Years later we got job and settled in different places, and we forgot to keep in touch. Life and job was getting bored. I really lost the wish to live. On that day my childhood friend called me and he we talked for hours recollecting memories and talking about the things we did in the past. And he asked where I was and about my job, life etc. I told him I am working for a very reputed company but life there is really dull and I really lost the wish to live.

And I asked him where he is now. He replied that he is a hospital and undergoing treatment for lung cancer because of smoking. And his voice turned sad as he continued....’ I really wish I could live for some more years’ and he cried through his phone...

And I thought, I should have really told him to quit smoking back then and yes I was DUMB….. But from that moment onwards, I started to tell and ask all my friends to stop smoking whenever I saw them with a cigarette. I don’t want to be a DUMB anymore in life. Be brave and speak up when you have to. It can really bring about a change, at least for one person.

2. It was a usual day in my life. I was walking through the side of a busy road. I saw an old man trying to cross the road. He was blind and so I wanted to help him cross the road. But something told me to help him, but I tried to act like a deaf by not hearing those words from my heart... and I kept walking. After walking some distance I saw a friend of mine and I tried to cross the road to meet him. The road was busy with vehicles in both the directions. I somehow managed to cross the road and reached the other side. It was like an adventure for me, crossing a 7 meter road in the middle of that town. When I looked back the old man was still on the other side of the road, still trying to cross the road. I wondered who was really blind ….. And from then onwards I started to help anyone whom I can and started hearing everything what my heart says. I don’t want to be a BLIND person by trying to avoid seeing the things   and be DEAF by not hearing what my heart says.

The story of two kids

I had two kids. Each one of them was given a small plot of land of equal dimensions.

   To one of them I and the people around him kept criticizing and discouraging him daily. We cursed him whenever we could and scolded him for almost everything he did. Each time someone criticizes him he would dig a small hole on the plot. Slowly the hole in the plot became larger and larger and it almost filled his plot fully. Then after that when there was no place to dig hole anywhere he started to dig his holes deeper and deeper.  And a stage reached when he could no longer had space to stand on his plot, even if he would try to stand somewhere, then he would slide and fall into the hole , he has created. And after some time he found that each hole he dug was a hole of ‘doubts’ in his mind. The doubts slowly consumed his plot (life) and finally he slides into the hole he made and died. TIME faded his name without leaving without any trace on it.

     To the second kid, I and the people around him, always loved, cared and encouraged him. We tried to correct him whenever he was wrong. I tried to fill him with love, compassion and all good qualities by showing him. Each time we was encouraged he would place a small block on his plot. Slowly the block turned into a small pyramid. With the passage of time the pyramid grew in size. Years later, the pyramid was so large that he could climb it and could see the entire whole world around him, as well as the people around him could see him on top of the pyramid(success). Eventually he too passed away. And time could only take him away not his pyramid. And that pyramid stood there as a mark he made on the TIME.

Not that just the food, water, shelter   we provide the people but the WORDS (good or bad) we use for them also matters.. in the long run .

What I think, when I see a crowd of people…

What I think, when I see a crowd of people…

 Whenever I see a group of people in a public place, like in a bus stand or railway station or somewhere, I see a lot of pattern. I see bored faces, living their patterned life. I usually wonder why it is  like this, why people chose to be sad and have a boring life. And I never understood it either at first because I was standing among them in that crowd, following a patterned life.

I started searching for the reason why a majority of people and youth like me end up like that. The reason I could understand was many. Some of it are.

1.       Play safe.

Now most of the people want to play thing safely. In fact, it starts with our childhood. Our parents choose the best school they can with their pocket. From there, the programmed life starts. We come out of school and still don’t know what to do with life. You come to one of important juncture in your life and you see a group going towards the engineering path. Some rare people chose otherwise. And after four years of that still no idea what to do with life. The only difference is that you have degree with the same thought you had when you entered the college. We all have different ideas in our life. But the idea of
PLAYING SAFE life drag us from trying something new. That is we all wanted a life that is too programmed and SAFE. So that we know where we are going, don’t want to try anything new, be on the safer side. We want to make our life secure that’s all.

2.       We think , but don’t  act  because we …….Afraid

Yes the reason we all want to play safe is, we all are afraid to do. We never want to risk anything. We never believe in us, our thoughts. We never give it a try. We are afraid we may not reach we would love to and won’t give it a try. Some says it is because of my situation. And we always think we wanted to do so many things, but we never do it. We want to go with our passion but something always holds us up. That thing is our fear. 

3.       It’s not going to work.. Only works for great people.

That’s another reason, our ATTITUDE. We always believe it won’t work for me and we won’t give it a try either. The reason for this may be also with society we live in  , we live in a less motivated society. But that’s wrong. The change should start from our head, from US. We should have a proper attitude towards things.

4.      We give up too easily

  We want to achieve something in life and with that in mind we chose something, something we dont love to do. so during the long run we forget to love ourselves and what we do and we give up. 

So what we really will think when all the time has passed on with our thoughts to do something, but we never did anything. And on our death bed we will think, we should have lived my life instead of someone else’s. That’s when we really going to regret. We can never rewind our life then. We only have NOW, yesterdays are gone and tomorrows are never coming.