Ways of the world

I sometimes really wonder, why didn't god create a loner. But then this fact I had learnt in school reminds me," Man is a social Animal". For all those who think why I'm blabbering about this, I recently had a realization (an eye opener, you may call it).No wonder, the course of our life, your actions depends a lot on the people around us, who influence us in 'not so few ways'. Right from the day when we venture in this world, we inherit the influence of our parents as your legacy. Then come our friends. From a piece of clay, we gradually get shaped into a sculpture, a lot similar to our existence today. But then are we really what we were made for??

The childlike innocence changes to hypocrisy, the sense of belonging changes to possessiveness, appreciation to envy, love to selfishness. Many a times, I sit and muse about the attitudes of people around me. And the people who are always there for you from womb to tomb are our 'parents'. It's perhaps the only relationship I can define as artless. But there is much more to life, beyond the vista of our home. No matter how much you do for others, 99% of them don't value it. But err a little, I ensure you, criticism will be round the corner. We are always taught, ours is a competitive world where only a few emerge as winners. 'Crush others to succeed' is a belief adhered by many. By such means, we may end up being successful in the eyes of others, but we fall in our own eyes, that too by leaps and bounds.

But then those, who don't follow this are termed weak and vulnerable, too innocent for the ways of the world. And then comes the transformation. (We always detest dissidents). So, we end up getting more people in the viscous circle, with an entry but no exit. It's 'kalyug' after all.

Certainly, all this is not the way to live life.Our universe is abundant, there is something great in store for everyone. Everything in nature is an epitome of abundance, magnificence and above all selflessness.And that's the reason for the perfect harmony it ushers. But we are always taught, there are limited resources, rush and toil if you want to succeed. Success doesn't mean winning at the cost of others, ruining your relationships for materialistic desires, faking many a things to achieve. It's not the destination but the journey that matters at the end. It's never wrong to aim high, but not at the cost of others. May be even we all can live in harmony, may be.....??