"Time
to change" encompasses almost every little detail that we have to offer
as the human race. After millions of years of inhabiting the planet,
we've made serious errors and gone ways that are so wrong as only
conceivable in the very devil's mind himself. While there have been
people who have tried to spread the message of bringing about change
through protests, their music, poems, stories, the media, the success
obtained hardly passes for anything that's worth boasting about.
"What we've got here is failure to communicate,Some men you just can't reach, So, you get what we had here last week,Which is the way he wants it!Well, he gets it!N' I don't like it any more than you men."
Communication
and acceptance together form the greatest tool that we could ever use
to treat the epidemic that are our own wrong doings. We do have
communication in our society as well as acceptance. But these exist very
rarely together. The key to finding a solution to change the world around us is ourselves. The moment we change ourselves, we change
the world. But each one of us is so busy trying to find a place for
ourselves among this maddening crowd, trying to get the better of one
another, trying to lead the others, that we forget the initial objective
we had. It's time people made promises to themselves and kept it. It's
time they took a good look at themselves before believing in anybody
else. It's time that people stopped killing in the name of the same God,
in whose name others
preach peace. If God to people is the omniscient being who brings peace
and harmony and love among humankind, where does the killing come in?
Love and peace can only step in when we have respect for each other. If
we want peace to step in, we must respect every man,woman
and child around us. And if we do respect them, why kill them? Isn't it
against the very logic that God helps bring peace unto ourselves?
I
wonder how many people sleep fitfully at night in today's world. We are
all worried about where our lives are going and what the future holds
for us. We continuously refuse to see the bigger picture or help
contribute to it. We think we are in our own individual ways but we are
not. Attending a protest rally, donating some money towards people
working to bring the change doesn't make a difference. The heart needs
to be in the right place,
to believe in something and not budge one inch. That's where we go
wrong. We are fickle and swayed easily. Acceptance of cultures,
religions, nations among others is a key step on the larger scale. But
before any of that happens, acceptance of the same within the nations themselves is what is needed.
For
years down the line, almost all nations and their people have aimed to
bring about peace to their land. It started out with the caveman
himself, and Darwin fortified the same generalizing it as ‘survival of
the fittest’, underlining the fact that each creature will eliminate any
possible threats to his territory in order to maintain peace for his
own self. The concept broadened, changed structures & morphed
into various forms down the time line.
Today
we still fight for peace against each other. We claim to be the most
advanced animal that has ever walked yet we still have not found a key
to nurturing peace. We point out differences between every other men,
inculcate in our children to develop the same wrong ideals we ourselves
have. If you put an African elephant and an Indian elephant in a cage,
both would just see each other as elephants. Why is it that we point out
differences? It is time, don’t you think? Time we found a solution to
the bother. Every day the video and the print media report blasts,
shootouts, accidents, fights, robberies. All of it has become so common
that people hardly take any notice nowadays. How many of us remember
every tragedy that has shaken the very roots of our world? The numbers
are so great that remembering has become an impossible feat to
accomplish. What if everyone lived in harmony, without the urge to nose
around? The world would most definitely see a lot less lives lost and a
lot less families grieving.
“With great power comes great responsibility”.
We
all nodded our heads in assent to it when Uncle Ben told Peter Parker
in Spiderman. What did we do about it? Did we at least take a look in
the mirror to see if we even respected ourselves enough to be
responsible? No. Because we are afraid we will let out the truth we hide
from ourselves even. The mask must be kept on. Without realizing so
even.
The
word here is “WE”, not “I”. WE must act together as a whole to prevent
the world falling to pieces at our own hands. The future belongs to us
and our children. Let us strive to remove quarrels, trifles, wars in the
name of religion, caste, creed, religion that threaten every bond we
have among ourselves. Let us teach our children the same values-there is
no difference. We are all humans. If we do not have a solution to
peace, let us not start anything that breaks peace where it exists. For
the world is not ours alone.
As the deceased has rightly said:
“Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me”
~Michael Jackson.
"Once there was a way to get back home"
