Don't get me wrong.
I love this life.
It is everything to me.
But,
at the same time,
It is so.. seriously irritating......!!
I don't care what people believe in, or what they think, or
how they think life is to be lived,
I don't care.
What I do care about is to be allowed to live my life how I want to live it.
To be able to talk without the fear of creating a scandal,
to be able to walk without staying on alert for thieves and kidnappers,
to be able to read the headlines of newspapers boasting of victory and progress,
( instead of terrorism and anarchy )
These may look like very simple wishes but sadly,
I could wish for countless pearls and diamonds and still get it,
but if I ask for the freedom to wake up every morning,
to the sound of birds chirping and
a certainty the day will be peaceful and
devoid any untoward incidents,
all I would get is an incredulous look.
This is what our life has degenerated to.
And do get me right;
I have no wish to portray myself as a hapless victim.
All of us are responsible for what is happening today.
We humans are like leeches, drinking up the resources of the earth and
bloating up to gigantic proportions.
And all because we have forgotten to live and let live.
We loudly proclaim,
“We have grown, we have developed!” But into what?
I would wager to say,
‘Friends.’
With great haste we have built our homes,
our societies,
our cities and in extension, our world.
Without a thought we have imposed ourselves on the various plants and animals.
We were actually meant to live with them as one, but
we have very thoughtlessly told them to either comply or perish.
And it’s not just them that we are hurting,
we have not left even our own kith and kin.
It is bad enough that
we have designed a hundred different weapons that have been created
for the sole purpose of taking lives,
but that there are some monsters in this world who would not think twice before using them.
This becomes a thought, too difficult to bear.
We peace – loving,
unobtrusive people are also guilty of being a prey of sensationalisation.
Don’t we all delight in the scandal and gossip that surrounds celebrities?
We go through every magazine,
newspaper and television channel just to know the latest tidbit pertaining to celebrities.
I think it is time we realize that every time we wear a leather belt or a shoe,
the carcass of an animal lies dead somewhere,
every time we waste sheets of paper,
there is a pitiful stump of a tree somewhere in some forest,
every time we overuse precious resources like water,
there are people in Africa crying for a few drops of it.
Let us try to change our behaviour and our attitude.
Let us try to make this planet greener and happier.
Let us co-exist with every being in harmony.
Let us live and let live.
---NVS
