Festival time is the time when the atmosphere is filled with joy and celebrations. Suddenly there is mirth and excitement in the air, all that is boring and mundane disappears. Everyone is busy with shopping, sweet preparations, making guests list, planning a trip to home, meeting up relatives and friends. This weekend there are two feasts, Mawlid al-Nabi and Holi. Its like a bumper weekend which will be filled with lots of fun n frolic. And for once all those who have weekend hangovers or hate mondays can rejoice coz monday is a holiday.
Amongst all this hulla-bulla, am a bit lost. This time my heart has become immune to all the happiness that is floating around. Somehow the spirit of festivity has not been able to sink in me. Not because am away from home or because am not that religious. I know the reason. I know it deep down in my heart and it has been disturbing me for long. Wanted to speak about it long back but remained silent. Not because i lack the courage to speak but because i wanted to think deep and reflect, wanted to understand some of the things which is beyond my control.
How can i celebrate when i have lost a dear one?
How can i celebrate when my house is in darkness?
How can i celebrate when my mother is weeping?
How can i celebrate when my path is drenched with my own blood?
How can i celebrate when my brother was burned to death while he was busy protecting another brother of mine?
How can i celebrate when my family was massacred just because they went to pray in a building that was different from mine?
How can i celebrate when my brother does not let me enter his house just because i belong to a different region?
I don't know the name, age, gender, religion, colour, region of the dear one that i lost to human greed. I have not seen his/her face still my heart bleeds for him/her. Of what use is this life if i cannot share my joys and sorrows with my brothers and sisters. Do we have to be related in order to treat another person as a part of our family? Each day we watch the dance of death on the television and read it in the newspapers. Does it affect us in any way or have we begun to view it as a part of normal life? If it is so then nothing can be more abnormal than this. If we will go on bathing in each-others blood then soon we may become an endangered species. Humans are a social being and they cannot exist in isolation. ME is nothing but WE. All this time we have been mistaking WE to be THEM. But think and see properly. Mirror never lies. Look at yourself in the mirror.
ME
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WE
It was him/her yesterday. Today it can be ME.
If you will be able to see Tomorrow then think yourself to be lucky. God forbid, but tomorrow if you will meet the same fate as my dear one. I will not be there to shed a tear for you or write a post like this.
If you will be able to see Tomorrow then think yourself to be lucky. God forbid, but tomorrow if you will meet the same fate as my dear one. I will not be there to shed a tear for you or write a post like this.
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28 comments:
Heartfelt thoughts!!!
May peace be bestowed on us all!!
I know what you mean and can understand the pain behind the words.
Read somewhere... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Take care and best wishes! :)
wonderful , it touched my heart.. u expressed the deepest feeling that was hidden inside for some time wanting to come out ... but just stood back.
Its hard to replace the loss of loosing someone in life ..but their smile is all we have to think they are still around us.
The main problem start within outself , we at times tends to swayed away by the situation that we just unable to see beyond n above it that the happiness waiting for us ..we just need to keep moving ..with our true-self, giving a warm welcome ...if we think this way ..the world will be @ peace. Though its nature ..we must be ready to deal with worst..nothing is forever ..so .. we hv go with our instinct , w/o contradicting thoughts.
Gud luck ..keep smiling..
U touched the deepest emotions lying in our heart! We always celebrate things and forget the blood bath our country had few days bacK! Such is human tendency. Very good post shas!
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i hate saying this...but the frequency with which such incidents have been happening around us, we have almost started thinking about it as normal! i'm not proud of the ease with which we forget stuff, but i'm also not ignorant enough 2 not notice it!
:( ... i second shruti!.. we sure do forget these things!
i agree with you about this..we can never know what will await us..
First time here and what a post..sad but whats the root cause..if only one could identify & perhaps address it...Or do we all know but simply chose to ignore it
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We never think abt these things specially wen we are happy.. Human nature.. We dont want to remain in the darkk.. again human nature... we hate when people spoil our mood.. human nature... but somewhere deep inside us, we remember these things.. Its just that we never speak up... and these sad moments get buried..
I really appreciate that you brought this up..
Life moves on. We need to pick ourselves up and go back to living even the dark reality is looking at us.
Hi Shas! This is my first visit to your blog and am touched by the very first article that I read.. Yes, it's pretty strange that belonging to the same human race, one of us is rejoicing while yet another might be in grievous pain! Nice thoughts!
It is perfectly fine to discuss serious issues..and the points you raise are valid..things to ponder on..
Keep writing things on your mind..you will find readers in all of us..
It is perfectly fine to discuss serious issues..and the points you raise are valid..things to ponder on..
Keep writing things on your mind..you will find readers in all of us..
yes, joy and sadness come hand in hand. Very touching post..Wish you a very happy year ahead, one with more of happiness and peace!
Its disturbing to see and hear about incidents that do not fit in to our Eutopian lives unless it happens somewhere around us.
I appreciate your efforts in reinstating reality in people's minds through the medium of this blog. Kudos.
Your post touched my heart . we people take our happiness as our right and forget all other issues.You gave food for thought to me.
your concerned are definitely a ugly truth.
but What I feel is, I do what ever I can.
Belated Happy Holi.
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well, dats true....hurts a but but evry wrd is true.
We hav a problem we started adjusting wid things.....we bacum used to it. No more bomb blasts affect us....no more religious riots move us.....we r such a fool species who start burning demselves on name of new state widout thinking dat is it worth breaking our own motherland into so many pieces.....
wad u said evry1 knows, but dunt knw hw much more blood vl b shed bfore dey break deir silence against it.....
nice write-up by d way
there is no right time for bad news.
I think the important element in our lives is the factor of time.
all good things,bad things, difficult things....just go by...it is up to us to hold on to the good things and travel light...so acceptance of a given situation in it's truest sense is paramount.
i understand every feeling behind the word... if only i could hug you!
I know how it feels:(
We have accepted these terror killings as a part of life and that is the biggest blunder ever.
I don't know how long the mankind has to suffer till peace is bestowed upon us.
Take care
Thats human nature.
No need to worry so much.
Time heals everything even though memories keep ticking.
Hugs
Cheers
Nuts
p.s. Happy Holi!!
Good post... loved it :)
YEah .. as metioned Time heals everything.. ANd yes you are right we should be thinking of everythign else too..
But then on other hand a bit of happiness is always welcome .. you cant also keep on thinking of sad things and let hapiness go by.. So when a chance comes one should celebrate too..
Look no time is good or bad .. its what we make of it that matters :)
excellent article
@ Dear All,
Thank you dear friends for your expressing your thoughts, words and feelings here.
Thankyou for your comments on my blog. :)
Just started reading through yours, you write really well! Bravo!
@ Oldmonk 87,
Welcome n Thanks for dropping in here. Hope u have a funtime here :)
very interesting, thanks
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