Do good

It has been a very long time indeed that I intended to start blogging but somehow or the other just couldn’t start. The reasons were myriad - inability to find a topic to start with, not finding time to start, fear of boring people and doubt over my ability to sustain this exercise in the long run…but I guess these are all lame excuses. My English teacher in class IX once said – “Time is always there; intention is not there”. And I have found the statement very true – there are some things for which I am always able to find time come what may and at the same time for some reasons, time is always a precious commodity for some other things. But then this other day, something happened , which may be triggered me into debuting my blog-career. As they say…it is never too late.

I do not intend to be the moral police for anyone, nor would I say that am moralistic to the core (no one is perfect) but I have been appalled at a long string of events that I have experienced over a long period of time. I must say it sometime seems to me that people have become very self-centered and do not display compassion & consideration towards others.

The latest incident is a testimony for the same. As on any other day, I took a metro ride back home after office hours. In the queue to get out where we punch our cards, a gentleman seemed to be in a hurry and tried to bypass the line. He seemed well educated and was around 45-50 years old. Some other day, I wouldn’t have even noticed, but something made me stop and request him to come in line. The person without even turning an eye made a remark in perfect English – “I am in line. Mind your own business”. This really pissed me off and made me stop him; I crossed him quickly. Outside the station the person caught up with me and told me “to mind my business the next time” and quickly sped away in an auto.

I could just smile and on my walk back to home, I realized that it was not the first time that a person had bypassed a queue – I have noticed it at several places, we all have, haven’t we? But the fact that the person seemed well educated and spoke perfect English seemed very disturbing to me. This is because I guess everyone expect people who are well educated to be considerate towards other, be more ‘behaved’ in their day-to-day activities, and more importantly be good human beings. But what I notice nowadays is this sense of restlessness among people, a lack of patience and empathy and their feeling that they are ‘supreme’ above rest. Education is supposed to make people sensitive to the issues of the world we live in, to inculcate seeds of equity and goodness, to make us better human beings but i guess this very important point is being skipped over today. I believe it is for the educated lot to pass the message of humanity, the message of goodwill to others by their acts and am sorry to confess that I find very few examples of these ‘good virtues’ on display nowadays.

I believe that “everything happens for a good reason”…the incident though disturbing got me into blogging!!! I clearly didn’t wish to start my blog with a ‘negative’ incident but I hope it does bring out some good.

In the end, I guess every one of us has had occasions where acts of goodwill shown by people towards others / us brought a smile to our faces. Let us make other people smile too!!