One of the few incidents that I would like to share,Just to show where we all stand and I have no shame in including myself there too. In daily life how much we go on complaining to people ,complaining life and being ungrateful for the very little things that we don’t have we have and how hypocrite two faced we are . Remembering the poem we use to read during our school days in which the father tell his son what exactly the society is, how people live in there just to show just to pretend how nice they are and how big hearts they have but inside how low they scoop to. Well I can’t remember the poem’s title but comparing it to that day,when that poem was just something to mug up for me to get good scores in English and to today’s life ,day by day it has become so meaningful. To start off few of the incidents that I have been through and I noticed in past days.
To start of I hardly been to see any movie alone as I am not that much fan of movies .This time I thought of giving it a try as heard the movie was good.There were group of guys and girls watching a movie in sitting beside me. I noticed girls among them started crying watching a emotional scene when they were showing the main hero of the movie going through some struggles in his life ,I just wondered if it would have been in their will they would have gone through right into the theater screen and and hug the hero and console them(though in the movie he was crying because he had no one to console him,her mother died ,her father was drunk and her lover ran away with someone ,and add to it lots of masala as they do in movies ) ohk! we all know that it is all fake I mean that’s what they are making movies to just to entertain you and sometimes to tell you what life is. Anyways the movie got over and it was happy ending much to the joy of the group sitting beside me,yelling ” oh my god he is so cute ,he deserved it” and were having tears of joy all around, as they call them khushi ke anshun or whatever “
I came out and started wondering that everything gives you a lesson as in life even such movies too but much to my surprise when I came outside from the Theater i noticed the same group of teenagers who were short of napkins inside to weep of their tears were making fun of a small kid who was asking them for some food and money .I don’t know what joy they were having making fun of that small kid and poking fun around him.The same girls who were drenched in tears (mind you they would have shed tears more than what exactly the a volume of water the body carries) were laughing as their male friends were continuously imitating the poor kid.The kid started crying because of their behavior which was surprisingly rude given to the fact the so called sympathy ,console and care they showed for the hero crying in the movie for showing fake emotions and fake story line. Here is a kid who is saying i am hungry ,let me have some money ,buy me some food. All in all having some real emotions ,and whose situation is real right in front of you.Well the group did went away after having fun with the child,while it just melted my heart watching them playing with his emotions so i just couldn’t control myself and just went to the child and bought him something to eat,well i don’t acknowledge here that i am any sort of nice human being but just maybe my heart melted at the right time at the right situation for the right needy person.
This incident made me realized lot of things.Well i don’t blame the teenagers here solely ,but maybe we all are such.Crying for fake movies ,fake serials but when it comes to helping someone in real,we sometimes don’t have time to help,we don’t make an extra effort to help we just make fun of his situation, and instead of sympathizing ,caring and consoling make it as a entertainment of his situation for ourselves to feel better aren’t we just fools crying for those things which never are but not making it a point to prove ourselves as humans when it comes to?
There was another incident when i went to Gurudwara Bangla sahib to offer prayers.I decided that ill sit there peacefully and listen to the Raagi and the beautiful ,peaceful Shabad being sung there.Sitting there i saw so many people coming ,obviously many come and offer prayers to their respective places of worship ,but sometimes when you just sit and observe them bowing you just tend to wonder “man how many of them come here to offer prayers ,could god listen to all of them ,does all of the prayers reaches to him or god takes some time to nap and says enough for the day come tomorrow”.After a while i got up.I was just about around the parking area of the Gurudwara where i noticed a Sardarji.Well before him approaching me i noticed he was eying me from quite a distance.He came to me and asked sir “would you like to help someone today”.Well i asked “how sir?”.He said that he belongs from some random camp who organize blood for the needy.He told me that he would be very grateful if i could donate some blood.The moment i heard the thought of donating blood so many things came in my mind,though i have donated blood quite a times still remembering that long needle that they put in and the weakness it causes just for some time just made me tell a lie” Sorry sir i just donated blood last week so i wont be able to give it now”.Well the Sardarji smiled and said ” its ok sir you have already done a good job donating it last week”shook my hand and went away.I started walking but my mind started having so many thoughts .”Arsh from home you have come here to offer your prayers to true almighty to whom you expect to answer each of your problems and come on you lied to a person when someone asked for a help how can you expect the god to help you when you have been there for help.With guilty heart i ran backwards looking for the same Sardarji whom i have enquired on the way but to much of my dismay i could never find that Sardarjii again ,i tried hard but all in vain. Much to my disappointment i took a slow walk back .The answers for what few minutes back i was wondering have been answered and i have failed in the test that the god might have put forward to see how much i can help someone ,the same questions to which i was trying to find answers few minutes back sitting in the Gurudwara started to answer by themselves.
disappointed with a heavy and guilty heart i realized so many things.Yes so many people daily go to places of worship ,some asking for help,some for their business establishments and some for their respective causes.What is that thing that makes god listen to their prayers?what is the thing that makes him answer those prayers?come on millions of people donate endless money and offer prayers here.But how god would be able to answer each one of them?? guys go on think?? its simple ,a simple 10 letter word
I-N-T-E-N-T-I-O-N-S
what intention we have behind each prayer?and how intentions become good? by making heart clean?how heart can get clean?helping a needy doing good deeds,giving a hungry a loaf of bread,proving a shelter to a needy
we should be looking for a opportunity to help someone but when the opportunity came i just being selfish nodded my head.
its just one of the few examples that where we stand? what god is for us what life is for us and what and how we live?
there can me thousands of examples and such opportunities coming in your life ,try never making a excuse and just going with your heart if not than don’t just complain the next time and get angry and doubt the existence of the god the next time any of you prayer got unanswered.
In life GIVE rather than just expect to Have
By ~ ARSHDEEP SINGH