It's new year again,everyone is busy welcoming the new year in their own way. Few at their worship places, many at party lawns and pubs and few in their beds. Seeing all these year after year, the devil in me asked, "what these celebrations are all about?". Have they all foreseen what the coming year has in stake for them or is it going to be fun and merry throughout the year? Had it been so all these years. There are no doubts that our race has evolved with every new year born, for centuries but wasn't that through so many struggles, hardships and sacrifices. Our memories being short lived we tend to forget everything. Just the previous month around 100 new borns have died in a hospital, a month before that a young girl was brutally attacked and killed, some lost their expression, many to lose their identity, are we celebrating these?
When I look back it's not just a year that passed by it's a decade. Though all these counts being just mere numbers, that's how we count our progress and growth. A visionary two decades ago set a goal for the country to be achieve by 2020, are we any where near to that? but that doesn't bother much as goals can be shifted for another two decades.
When the country shifts it's goal the world seems to move in another pace. The GDP's have gone upstream but right to live being saddled by direct and indirect means, as goals for carbon emmission shifted, agreements on disarmament being postponed, governments seem to be more concerned in correcting what they call historical blunders than what they are really expected of. As the lines of Mr. Thomas Jefferson goes " I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. "Aren't the governments supposed to think in these lines?
But why shall a government restrain from correcting the history when masses seem to be amused with that? Maybe they even find some comfort in that, you keep correcting the history we keep doing stubble burning may be their say.
This stubble burning keeps me amused every year at the onset of winter. Though it's not good for the one who burns, neither the one who allows to burn nor the one who never knows what this mess is all about. The show goes on every year and governments promise to stop it the next new year and we celebrate. That's how celebrations have to go on. If this is the case in the nation, in world scenario vast massive forests are being burned down for commercial gains and super powers turn their heads the other way, what else will they do when matchsticks to burn are from them?
Maybe they expect someone to come and correct this blunder in history and plant forests. But isn't it true that nature corrects things much faster drastically to everyone's surprise?
This blog started when I questioned myself " you dumb head! why aren't you wishing people new year merrily and enchantedly, but putting monotonous phrases and smileys?" Answers came in pouring, knowing that no one is going to agree with me not being much merry about Happy new year, penned down a few as I always think the other way round.
-Hareesh aravindakshan.
A thought other way round.
