May be I should have written it long back. And now after almost 20 major terror attacks and death of 600 people, bunch of breaking news, injured people,ailing humans, death counts, crying families and relatives,condemning politicians and security arrangements and a great hue and cry about political decisions and promised securities, we again have come to the same spot where we had begun. And among all these uproars and turmoil, we forget humans. Lives and dreams are shattered forever, families are left to lead their whole life in destruction and void. We talk about died human beings in figures and numbers, count them under victims, inquire about our close ones and end up feeling happy if the figures don't have any of our people. Of course those 600 humans may not have any of our own, but among those 113 crores souls of our nation, there must be few eyes full of tears, few hearts filled with emptiness, and few lives filled with vacuum. Terror attacks occur and lives end, bombs are exploded and families shatter, promises are made and kids are orphaned, compensations are announced to kins of terror victims and dreams are killed, securities are assured and humans walk on. Life ends for a few and live keeps on moving for many. We talk for people killed, clamor against the whole system, censure politicians and assailants and move on with our own respective lives. And this is all we call humanity.
Problems and struggles don't permit anyone to stop over this commotion. I am no different from other common men. Of course why do I worry for people dying in Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. I belong to Jaipur and I should care for my family and friends whom I can count on my fingers. I did the same and when Jaipur faced terror attack, all my agitation diluted after confirming that my family and friends were alright. I was in office that moment and I started laughing to the jokes cracked by my colleague and after an hour I forgot what had happened. I realized afterward that I had become so selfish and self-centered. I couldn't even spare a single moment to shed tears for those who lost their lives. Ya, I know,referred to all the teachings and preachings of being practical in life, that one has to keep calm while working and living alone in a country.But what use is in being practical if it takes your human-ness from you. Being human is not about being a successful person with countless achievements to display. It is about having a heart of human which doesn't differentiate between own father and others father, it is about feeling the barrenness of own mother's heart and others mother's also, it is about catching
tears of own brothers' and sisters' and others' too.Of course the Jaipur blast didn't cost me anything, but it proved devastation for many. I might have crossed my ways with many of them. Buying goods from shops, cracking jokes with sellers, enjoying and praising the chaats and kulfis of street hawkers, driving on those streets among fellow human beings, running through the paths of people... I must have touched lives of those who were killed. And when I think from this perspective, I feel for them. How is it being shattered in a moment only? Bleeding injuries, fleshes tearing apart and blood running cold through the veins of their dear ones after seeing them dead frightens me like nothing. A small kid who is as innocent as a budding flower was lying dead on the blast site. He was born to fill his parents' lives with love, to give them happiness in watching him taking his first step, learning his first word, achieving highest marks in class, selecting in school cricket team, wiping his sister's tears when she gets hurt after falling from stairs. He was meant to live dreams of many and touch horizons. And now he is lying being an unknown face under the death count. We all will move on and will forget him. But his family will live forever with those incomplete dreams and the vacuumed life after he has left.
I would never be able to know their miseries till I keep myself on his place. One fine day, when I go out for something but return back to my family in a form of a ripped flesh and blood and dreams oozing out of my veins. Life would be difficult for those who love me, who expect me to stand by them when they need me, who want me to touch them every day and night, whose hearts beat only for me. They will remember all the moments spent with me...when I first left my ma's hand & started walking on my own feet, when I spoke my first word, when I achieved success, when I cooked meal first time for my parents, when I got my first scholarship, when I bought gift for their anniversary from my pocket-money, when I cried after my di left home for hostel, when I fought to possess best cupboard in our bedroom with chutki. As a result of hatred, anger and revenge of attackers, I would leave my loved ones only to survive with my memories forever.
I do not intend to preach any big lessons here. I don't even have hate for any community or groups. I feel we all, including victims and culprits, are human beings and we all are blessed with few people who love us all our life without any conditions. Killing people can leave someone with lifelong sorrow, someone with neutrality and someone with bliss & content. We are bound to die one day, either by someone or our natural death. When someone dear dies, it is our loss. But someone else's dies, it is also our loss. We don't want to lose humans because of humans. The victims might not have any relation with culprits, but someday, even an innocent kid of culprit may end up lying down as a piece of flesh under the death count.
Sometimes, I hate myself for staying far from my people when they need me to wipe their tears. I don't want to run away that far from humans where I have all the time for every trivial thing in life and don't feel sparing 2 minutes to shed tears from my eyes and to wipe tears from others' eyes. Shedding tears for our own is easy....shedding tears for others is difficult. I am trying to learn it from now so that one day I can claim that I am proud being a human. Because humanity is only in wiping tears of others and letting them live....
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This is my first ever reply to any blog on this webosphere.I understand that the devastation caused by such inhuman acts is a huge loss to the people and to the entire country on the large scale.I totally agree with you on the point where u say "I would never be able to know their miseries till I keep myself on his place".
However, I am not completely convinced with your definition of humanity.You describe "Humanity" in your dicitonary as being able to wipe of tears of others. So does it mean here, if you are not able to wipe of their tears you are being inhuman??
Here are some good examples, my friend who was pursuing his Masters in UK, lost his father when he was in UK, he did board the next flight to India and reached there asap. In the event of all this, he forgot to take some very imp docs with him, due to which the UK immigration authorities wouldnt have let him back in the country..but he was fortunate enough to have his college friend who became aware of this situation as soon as he left for India, took the required steps in that direction and eventually got him come back safely..So though he was not able to shed tears or so, his act was human I feel.
Another example is pretty counteractive in being human. My friend's father gave his best friend some xxxxx lakhs of rupees when in need. However, when its time to repay the stuff back, after a period of 15 years, he is giving all sorts of reasons about returning the same and he doesnt even feel bad about bluffing. So it is in event a loss to my father's friend..Being human here, is like a loss to yourself too.
So,I think you cannot generalize the definition of humanity.
Hello Miss Purva
we all are angry and upset with what happing in mumbai or in any part of india...but we can not go and start fighting with them...these terror attacks are claiming lives without any objectives.....
as u said after blast we all will forget what happened with people and we will live our normal life..but u know what these terrorist want is that after such acts of inhumanity the PEOPLE should not getback to normal life....and here we indian gives a strong message that we are unstoppable and we will move ahead even after such attacks.....Mumbai Jaipur Delhi every city has proved after such terrorist attack that yes we have over come.......
It takes years and generations to build a home and it takes a moment to destroy it with a bullet...are these terrorist not having home family....are they not human.....is nobody waiting for them at their home........do they have mother who gave birth to such devils........
i think nobody can answer these questions...i pray to God for those who are victim and those who are making them victims FOR THEIR PIECE AND RIGHT WAY TOWARDS HUMANITY....
hi purva this time you came with a new topic because india is faing all this problems since 1993.every time normal peoples facing that problem because all the politicians were under z-security.........
but every time of army done his job......
hello purva
ya i m ready to comment
ek line yaad aati hai muje is concern me'munh ke aage to karte hai baat sabhi,per baat to tabh hai jab jaane ke baad bhi yaad kare koi'i salute all the soldiers who save our lives,fight for nation,sacrifice their life for us.
every indian is upset & angry for happen in Mumbai and other city,
but till date we are not in position to solve this problem forever.we all blame politicians for this but this is not right.what was intelligency ,security & police doing that time.for being a good citizen we all come together to solve this problem.
do u remember when we go for college tour, in katra we go for SHIV GUFA.at departure time when we got late,local people told us about millitant danger,although we were entertaing the situation, but what was the inside condition.
people can't face danger situation any time,they feel better to die,now the time again come for Do Or Die against terroism.
@Coolron--I am not generalizing the definition of humanity. May be I didn't or I couldn't include everything in a small post. Humanity is such a wide term to get generalized. Every person defines and follows humanity in his/her own way and I feel they are humans. I was just showing my enrage over whole incidents occurred last days. Killing humans is the worst possible destruction done to humans. That's what I was expressing. A small deed done to bring a smile on someone's face or helping out a human in the time of need marks humanity too.
@Sumit--Yes, I was disturbed after mumbai terror attacks and that's why couldn't think of anything to write other than this. Army does its job but ultimately innocents also lose their lives along with culprits. Thanks for commenting on my blog regularly...keep visiting..
@Pramod--Yes, I feel for the soldiers, the common human beings who came forward to save the lives of many people. May be, its not completely right to blame politicians but its also not fair to blame intelligency and security fully. I believe we all are also to be blamed for it because we create problems for ourselves. We need an intact and organized system to follow by everyone, be it a higher authority or a normal person. How the other countries like Europe and United States have a well defined system to face calamity or destruction? but, we don't find time except to pin-point each other. I know it is easier said than done...but how many of us actually go out in an event of terror. We close our doors and restrict ourselves to watch news on television only.
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