Spilling Colours - An Introspection

17th June, 2010. 2:00 am


Spilling Colours – an introspection.

It was the 15th of June and it started raining that day. My mother precisely asked me to bring in those vehicles parked outside almost 10th time. On being asked, she told me about those ignominious incidents of vehicles being theft in our area.

“It’s not safe, I tell you, even our homes.” She shouted.
“Come on Mom, the world is not that dangerous.” I defended.
“Time has changed my dear son. Gone are the days when we used to leave our homes open. That is a beautiful history now.” She replied affirmatively.

“Time has changed”. My mother’s voice is still rumbling into my ears, and boiling my senses like anything. I bet, a thermometer will explode if placed to measure.

This fierce agony and BAAM !. At 2:00 a.m, lying on the floor with sleepless eyes and a laptop in tow, I can’t help but write this post.

In today’s world, there is no one truth. This or that, either or. And we just wish to keep going and going & going, may be without those values, ambitions and introspective qualities which nurtured the well established human life till today.
We are all very nice people, pure from heart, and for us, relationships are meant to last too long, really long, may be for a lifetime. We behave sophisticated, we show mannerism, inclusive growth is the fashionable buzz word, and we like social causes.
But, the darker side says something else. Something, which we don’t want to accept as facing the mirror, is rare phenomenon in our hectic life today.

A guy murdered, a girl kidnapped, a saint involved in sex scandal, suicide of family, bomb blast threatening millions, lecherous teachers, life altering rape cases, brother assassinating brother, hundred crores scandal, sadistic public statements and what not.!

We see everything. Everything with our eyes closed. But who cares?
What we would care is whether we are getting anything out of this deal.
Love and relationship will make the world go round. But Money buys the tickets, the luxury we long to live. Because, we are selfish.

Joint family is slang today, nuclear family is happening.

No space for ‘Gali Cricket’ and video game is our sports routine. Neighbors hardly participate in our socials, and we are very economical in preparing the list of invitees.

Giving your home’s keys to neighbours is rare case, and a stranger’s stop at your doorstep for more than a minute will make you dial ‘100’ for a safety reason.

We are being checked with those gadgets at our own ‘public places.’ And we can’t move freely on our ‘Independence Day’ due to some ‘High Alert’.

This is just because, we the human; have forgotten the importance of human itself. Money keeps everything going, even our relations, and our deeds.

Our hearts are shrunk. We fear human faces, because we learn to hate them. We miss the lesson - ‘how to love’ in our school of humanity.

We deserve the black, and our life’s colour has started spilling out, out and out.

Beware! & Wake up, before it’s too late. Not that you come forward and contribute like a social worker, but just start being a common human. Start loving the humanity with compassion & emotion. Mesmerize the world like an open sky, welcome humans like the earth did when you were born.

Welcome the world of a child’s imagination!