Being Human -my version :P
The famous poet Shakespeare beautifully penned in one of his masterpieces ‘The Seven Ages of a Man’, that life is a stage where we all enact our roles. Though I would like to slightly deviate from what he said. The life being a stage is an ideal state which rarely happens but that should happen for a blissful and secluded life. We usually lead a life where we cease to play our parts. We get carried away by the million ‘marichika ki mrig-trishna(s)’.
I don’t know why, but the current generation youth is flinching away from the rational and logical and emotional state of mind and instead is paving the way towards criminal activities without having the slightest hint of where they are heading. By criminal activities I don't merely mean high degree of inhuman attainments like murders or rapes but hurting others, bullying and taking pleasure in others’ heartaches are also counted among those.
The young generation has become full of anger, disgust and despair. Where, in the earlier ages all movies, songs, paintings and any form of art used to be about love, happiness or were a mere token of appreciation of some form of beauty, now they mostly mirror anger, vengeance and misery. No doubt it’s good that now those who were oppressed have a voice against their oppressors but in the present scenario every negative things said about you for your own benefit is also being taken as an oppression.
The newspapers are flooded with mournful events like students beating up their teachers to death who used to, in their words, ‘exploit’ them by scolding them for not doing their homework or scoring less marks in the test or caught them red handed doing something mischievous and hence threatened to inform the higher authority if repeated. There are many other events happening like this which clearly means that you would land yourself in a pool of trouble if you say something for someone’s wellbeing.
Our mindsets have been filled with negativity, we can’t see the good things happening and keep playing blame games. What we lack in the present time is ‘Optimism’ and ‘Love’. The meaning of the word ‘love’ for us has been chained to be only existing between opposite sexes. One of the greatest lessons of Christianity ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’ has lost it’s meaning. We need to rethink our endeavours and bring an immediate change. We need to break free from the man-made barriers made of rage and hate and rekindle the sense of love and compassion for our fellow-mates. Let’s take a step back and be back to the drawing board but this time with our minds filled with the air of optimism and hope, and heart brimming with love for all.