Jaygovind Sahu

Time to ques­tion ourselves…

Few days back, while trav­el­ling in a local train I saw a lit­tle girl clean­ing the floor of the com­part­ment. She might be around 4–5 years. After com­plet­ing what she was doing with utmost sin­cer­ity (what I could notice), she came to all the pas­sen­gers one by one demand­ing what she thought she deserved. If you travel in local trains, this is a com­mon scene for you.

Peo­ple pay to visit idiots who can declare them­selves as the avatar of God. Even in some places there is an hier­ar­chy of the extent to which you can have the com­pany of that idiot and like­wise is the fee. Peo­ple still pay. Peo­ple pay the beg­gars who could eas­ily work and get food for them­selves with pres­tige, but the lit­tle girls like the one I men­tioned are still left with nothing.

For­mer Iraq Pres­i­dent Sad­dam Hus­sain had a plan for the biggest mosque in Iraq. His daugh­ter, after watch­ing the model of the mosque struc­ture, asked him if there was noth­ing bet­ter for the cit­i­zens of the coun­try spend the wealth to. He counter-questioned with a smile “Just imag­ine what the king of Jerusalem would have answered to a ques­tion like this!.” Peo­ple are busy in build­ing and demol­ish­ing reli­gious struc­tures. Peo­ple pay to build theirs and to destroy oth­ers’ even in the coun­tries where peo­ple die hungry.

More sur­pris­ingly, there are places where pub­lic exhi­bi­tion of love and affec­tion is con­sid­ered a crime but riots and vio­lence is some­times sup­ported by the so called pro­tec­tors of the public.

Life will some­day end like every sun­rise sees a sun­set. At the end of the day what we want is all about a sound sleep, not the one with sleep­ing peels. Let our life not be ended crowded by the acts of hypocrisy and when we grow older and older, may we not have any regrets like “I should have..” or “I shouldn’t have…”. I am not a philoso­pher. But this is what under­stood and then I took out a two rupee coin from my purse and handed it to the lit­tle girl.