During one of the busiest shopping days when people stroll through crowded markets in New Delhi and all over India- a colorful season when India strung with colourful bulbs - everyone is buying an extra box of sweets - this extra-sugary sweets are gift of love and affection to some other people who can be our next door neighbors - our relatives or friends. Whom to point at when a pleasantly cool Saturday evening explodes in fire and terror? May be some of our own people have done it - they could be our own neighbors - they could be living just next door. They might still enjoy the gift of our sweets. How can we feel good about the season when some of our own are gone. Can we or should we stop feeling good? Should we stop trusting people? What should we human do when something like this happens? When we feel good, we think the best of other people. If we are going through bad times, we see the devil in everyone. But everyone is not devil - due to some people's act of terror, we have started seeing things that way. The best way to fix a problematic situation like this is to once again start feeling good. And that will help the others do the same too. Is it easy - sure not but we have no other alternative. Stop trusting people will not take us anywhere. We may have to mend our way of thinking - it will then become much easier to feel good - it will seem as if there is now a new alternative in place of an old mended original mindset. This will give us an opportunity for forgive and to create a new way of thinking - may be something better than before. Let us try to do the opposite of what we would normally do in such a situation, let us try to love and care - even when we may have been thinking about bombing them in return. Let us pull them towards and close to our hearts where we think we are supposed to push them into same kind of terror. Let us give ourselves the satisfaction of knowing we have tried everything, even the illogical. A forgiving thought may fix the problems - if we inclined to see ourselves as victims of circumstances, we ultimately will find that this vision proves true. Each and every notion that passes through our mind needs to be closely scrutinized. We can not do what they did. What they did is very wrong but we don't have to do the same wrong....
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Delhi Terror - What should we do now....???
During one of the busiest shopping days when people stroll through crowded markets in New Delhi and all over India- a colorful season when India strung with colourful bulbs - everyone is buying an extra box of sweets - this extra-sugary sweets are gift of love and affection to some other people who can be our next door neighbors - our relatives or friends. Whom to point at when a pleasantly cool Saturday evening explodes in fire and terror? May be some of our own people have done it - they could be our own neighbors - they could be living just next door. They might still enjoy the gift of our sweets. How can we feel good about the season when some of our own are gone. Can we or should we stop feeling good? Should we stop trusting people? What should we human do when something like this happens? When we feel good, we think the best of other people. If we are going through bad times, we see the devil in everyone. But everyone is not devil - due to some people's act of terror, we have started seeing things that way. The best way to fix a problematic situation like this is to once again start feeling good. And that will help the others do the same too. Is it easy - sure not but we have no other alternative. Stop trusting people will not take us anywhere. We may have to mend our way of thinking - it will then become much easier to feel good - it will seem as if there is now a new alternative in place of an old mended original mindset. This will give us an opportunity for forgive and to create a new way of thinking - may be something better than before. Let us try to do the opposite of what we would normally do in such a situation, let us try to love and care - even when we may have been thinking about bombing them in return. Let us pull them towards and close to our hearts where we think we are supposed to push them into same kind of terror. Let us give ourselves the satisfaction of knowing we have tried everything, even the illogical. A forgiving thought may fix the problems - if we inclined to see ourselves as victims of circumstances, we ultimately will find that this vision proves true. Each and every notion that passes through our mind needs to be closely scrutinized. We can not do what they did. What they did is very wrong but we don't have to do the same wrong....
