Who are we?

Ever visited a place and felt that it soothes your soul? I am sure all of us have experienced that bliss! If you haven’t, well I don’t mean to be demoralising, but you are lost my friend. But the up side is you may not be the only person there. There are others whose hand you can hold and can come back. Feel better already? My point here is we care a lot about what others are doing. Even though we are suffering, we don’t care as long as our peers are also suffering. Relativity has killed the innocence of our soul.

I have a tiered motive for writing this. Let’s see it piece by piece.

I went on a short trip with a bunch of people last week. The place was snow covered and really cold. We stopped at various places to take pictures and for food. Finally we reached our destination and we clicked pictures and everyone wanted to head back to the car. I did not say much but just happened to ask one of my peers “Is that it, we click pictures and head back?”. He said “Yeah. We had to cover this so we did. We have to let the world know we touched this spot.” Maybe I could not decipher the true meaning to his words but I could make out one thing, there are a lot of people like him in this world who are just living and not enjoying the moment. What was the idea behind travel; nurture our existence with the experiences and grow with the learning or just visit new places? We are probably not asking WHY as often as we should.

Another instance from someday not long ago, a friend was angry that I don’t click good pictures of hers. It gave me a weird jitter in my stomach! I thought to myself that night, “Do we click pictures for Display Picture on Social Networking or do we still really care about capturing memories?”. After a lot of thought I realised, we have changed. Our priority was to capture moments but now it is all about getting “An Awesome Display Picture”. We are probably not asking WHY as often as we should.

I went to the beach yesterday and while clicking pictures I wanted to click a picture of the beautiful sunset over the deep blue water and a boat sailing by, but my phone battery was low. I tried a couple of different routines to make it click just that one picture but to no avail. Exasperated I look up and the boat was nowhere in sight! The moment was gone, lost with the patterns in the sky and it made me realise, I am clicking pictures to capture the moment, but the moment is lost in saving it for future. I am not living it. That thought suddenly changed everything. It made me realise that I am not living the moment anymore. I asked myself that very moment, “When was the last time you actually looked at the sunset and felt that it calmed you down?”. I had no answer. We are probably not asking WHY as often as we should.

I can’t say I am not guilty. I am and I agree that I have sinned. But today I resolve to change. M.K. Gandhi taught us “Be the change you want to see in the world”.

In the hope of a better world,
Novice