Happy New Year
Warm greetings friends!!! Here comes 2010 and there goes 2009. Well, even a nursery kid could have told that 10 comes after 9, so I didn’t accomplish much by pointing that out.
I know, I know, you don’t have time to read a boring editorial. So I have a great mind to say “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” like professor Dumbledore and let you have a laugh and let you proceed to the next sections(surely more interesting). But then I can see so many highly intellectual and serious people around that I don’t think professor Dumbledore’s lines would go down too well with them. So here I am, writing about what I want to tell you all. Its not important what day or date it is. Its not important where or what you are supposed to be. Its not important what your destiny is.
What is important is whether you are making the moment you are living, count. Count, not to the world I mean, to yourself. The moment is more important than anything else in the world. In the race to the future, you may hardly be able to make a few moments worth living. The one who can do more than just say “I will be happy in the future when I achieve something great” and rather say, “Hey buddy! Its life! Aint it just great to be living and enjoying and fighting. Sure I will achieve something great one day, but hey, who says I already haven’t!” Know that each little thing you have achieved, aint little. Make the person next to you smile, make yourself smile. Make the moment count. May it be that you are stuck in a traffic jam, perhaps you are giving a paper, how on earth you want to make that time worth it? Well look at it this way, there is no way you can get out of the traffic jam, so well hum a song; and well papers, they aren’t the end of the world(though we are made to believe they are life or death), let them go.
Before we get too serious, this isn’t philosophy ;) See, its just tiring to hear “Another year gone”, “A new year”, “A new beginning”, “A fresh start”, “Things to do” and so on that I just wanted to remind you; live, don’t rush, don’t wish the days to fly by, don’t wish that you could fast forward to a perfect future; because this moment is far more valuable than a dozen successes ahead. Dream like you will live forever Live like its your last day(don’t get me wrong there, last day in the city perhaps, tomorrow you might be in New Jersey!) Cheer up!!! Oh and “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” That does remain what I actually wanted to say. - Anwesha Bose
A wish I Have
A nature walk along with a little thinking process over a first-hand experience as I noticed is a great teacher! What isn’t beautiful, we leave it to the heavens to take care of. What captivates our hearts; we let its attainment govern our future steps lot many times. If it inspires us and gets the best out of us, I feel it’s something positive. Just in case it becomes an obsession, an entity, playing around to the maximum with which becomes a five year term work for some people, the so called nation governors, the work with which they presume they are finally identified; there’s something seriously wrong.
Feeling it isn’t as easy as saying is. It’s only a tête-à-tête with an expatriate following a lucky accidental meeting that runs a chill down your spine. I call that lucky because the talk instantly squeezes a lot of things in your head to ponder over. Such as why do people have to divide the society on the basis of religion? Why do the religions need to differentiate themselves with typical names in spite of similar preaching? And then divide the society? Why does a nation have to be so greedy over a patch of neighboring land that it foolishly directs almost all its efforts towards its attainment? Why do a set of people have to show their dominance and forcibly flee the other set away, snatching their homes forever, not realizing that an encroachment over someone’s abode is completely unethical and unjustified, that doing this is yet another act against their own Holy Book?
And definitely, why do the [state] leaders just callously let certain things happen, not caring to take any effort to control the havoc happening around? Just because it doesn’t affect them given a sense of security they enjoy being the ones sitting on the throne? If that’s enough a reason convincing them to not identify themselves with the feelings of the state inhabitants they are legally supposed to look after; humanity has evidently lost its meaning in this era. It isn’t easy e x p l a i n i n g the havoc a displacement from an ancestral home creates in a family.
To have to leave one’s lovely orchards and haveli in the hands of the penetrators, dashing out to another city helplessly to save one’s life and then start from scratch; it’s a pain only a few inflicted upon can overcome. And coming back over to the place ten years hence just to learn that the colony has had a new setup and the renowned “Bhawani Temple” that had one’s footsteps everyday has lost its glory; is nothing less than a heart break! History can merely record the prominent losses undergone but the little personal tragedies can’t easily be forgotten. These little tragedies are tremendous things to some and aren’t known completely by all except a few.
Isn’t this description of consequences of a human conflict good enough to arouse a feeling of sympathy towards one’s own species? For some, it does no good in making them realise their responsibilities. Can any reason possibly justify the taking away of precious innocent lives? Wouldn’t it be nice living in a society of peace? It’s just not easy to understand why can a thing of beauty not be cherished and praised, why the person next door can’t just be satisfied with the God’s best creation being so near to him. Why the ruinous thought to rein the gardens and snow clad peaks eat his mind away like a cancer! 60seconds a minute, 60minutes an hour, 24hours a day, Similar 365days defining a year, Passes by one, comes in the next. Revering the point of celebration that a new year is, here’s a wish coming to my mind this year; There’s this little wish I have, That in the many new years to come by, None of them sees a human conflict displacing them from their habitats.
So long as the sun shines in the valley, Wish I, Peace prevails in the Heaven on earth! The Mughal Gardens captivate the hearts, Clouds play in the blue azure sky, Purest of all waters forever trysts with the rocks, Shikaras reside on the Dal, The orchards gift us the life sweeteners, The peaks forever inspire us to go higher! VIVA KASHMIR!!
Akshi Maheshwari