The Home of the Hypocrites
He was on his way to the hotel, the luxurious hotel where high profile travelers spent their times away from their homes. What was he doing here? “Relaxing” was the answer from the people. “Teaching” was his answer. I was envious of him, teaching and relaxing at the same time. Where is his home? “In the country side” was the answer of the people. “This is my home” was his answer. Something struck my head. “Why don’t people see him the way he saw himself?” So curiosity made me to study this guy. It took me to his home and all his work places. Made me a loiterer with the reason only I knew.
His home was indeed in the country side as I saw with my eyes. ‘Antonym’ would be the best word to describe the two words that describe his lifestyle and the lifestyle of his family back home. I was shocked to see him teach strangers for money while his sons and daughters need to be taught. He loved his home by telling them to work hard and giving a lot of advices he has learnt verbally. But his family remained the same old fashioned despite his perennial instructions. He seems far too smart to go back to them and teach them practically. To take them to his place, their expenditure would become higher than the income; every educated man like him knows what consequences would follow. The family on their part would never leave their place. Their inherited village was a mother to them in which lies their identity and culture. I made a conclusion that time would never change them.
As I laid my head on my soft feather pillow, I started thinking of the man that took my mind for more than a week. I wonder why many educated men from the countryside leave our hometown/village, never to settle back, in search of a better fortune while our friends and people back at home are still far away from development. Do we really love our people? Can we judge people by looking only at the person? Don’t we look like a hypocrite trying to hide our real image? They are like a man that goes out to the jungle in search of food and find it, but never returns to his family to deliver it but finishes the food all alone.
No wonder that there are many villages in this world which had produced a hundreds of genuine scholars that serve in the cities. “There is no job in villages/towns fit for scholars”. May be the reason most of them have in mind. But jobs are created by men. Are the scholars from the countryside incapable developing the underdeveloped? Most of us are looking for an almost complete house for ourselves instead of rebuilding our own broken house where our family will always remain. Furthermore, laying new foundations would be far from our thoughts.
Apr 4, 2009
Apr 3, 2009
Why Can't You?
“If he can, why can’t u?”
This saying is what many children heard from their parents when they are weaker than their friends.
Many people have witness an apple falling in front of them or on their head, but the apple that fell on Isaac Newton’s head made him to discover the “Laws of Gravitation”. James Watt manufactured the Steam Engine by seeing boiling water in a kettle, which is also seen by many persons. Some few men are thinking of travelling to the moon while some don’t even think of going out of their town. Some are looking at the latest model cars while others don’t know what they will eat the next day. Some men are manufacturing vehicles while some don’t know how to ride. Some boys are confused in choosing which will be the best girl while some are struggling to get one. Some slum dwellers are holding the Oscar while many of their friends are still in the same slum. Some singers sing on stages while some sings only in the bathroom.
Well, we may think that this is due to the difference in background and facilities. It may be true to some extent. But students of the same class, attending the same lectures, eating the same hostel food and same facilities still have different marks in their exam. Some students are struggling for their pass marks while some struggle for the top position. Furthermore, two identical twins that are brought up in the same family, getting the same education from the same institution with the same facilities still have different abilities and talent. Why is someone always better than the other one? Or how can you be the better one in this world where the fittest survives?
As a school student, you have spent all our schooldays under the guidance of the teachers, wardens and parents. Besides, your high-school life has passed while preparing for the professional entrance exams in which a very less percentage are chosen. Even if you are among the lucky selected ones in the stream you prepared. Your life won’t change because there is still a higher level of competition elsewhere. Your college life will pass in the same old boring way again; studying hard at the eve of exams just craving for marks or the so called pointers; attending the coaching classes more than the college lectures. Else, get a placement in some company and become their slave. Why do you have to follow the same old tradition as a different person? Only few will achieve something by creating or changing the history.
We have spent 30% of our lives, supposing that we are to live until our old age. Few people of our age have represented the country in sports and science exhibitions; few have made world records by beating the world history; few invent things that are useful to the world; few write books that are read nationwide and worldwide. While many will do the same work that many others have done without any recognition. Yet why does everyone have a unique dream of achieving something different? Will we be able to fulfill our own great dreams? Henry David Thoreau said, “If you have built your castle in the air, your works need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” This is true because a castle without foundations will be blown away like chaffs. But do we have enough talents to lay your own foundations?
So, who are this few people who can do it while others can’t? How can we be among this few guys? Or do we consider ourselves to be among the many losers who think they are born without any special talent? Let us not be too pessimist to think that God made us inferior than others. Erica Jong said, “Everyone has a talent, but there are FEW who are courageous enough to follow it to the dark places where it leads”. What do you say?
This saying is what many children heard from their parents when they are weaker than their friends.
Many people have witness an apple falling in front of them or on their head, but the apple that fell on Isaac Newton’s head made him to discover the “Laws of Gravitation”. James Watt manufactured the Steam Engine by seeing boiling water in a kettle, which is also seen by many persons. Some few men are thinking of travelling to the moon while some don’t even think of going out of their town. Some are looking at the latest model cars while others don’t know what they will eat the next day. Some men are manufacturing vehicles while some don’t know how to ride. Some boys are confused in choosing which will be the best girl while some are struggling to get one. Some slum dwellers are holding the Oscar while many of their friends are still in the same slum. Some singers sing on stages while some sings only in the bathroom.
Well, we may think that this is due to the difference in background and facilities. It may be true to some extent. But students of the same class, attending the same lectures, eating the same hostel food and same facilities still have different marks in their exam. Some students are struggling for their pass marks while some struggle for the top position. Furthermore, two identical twins that are brought up in the same family, getting the same education from the same institution with the same facilities still have different abilities and talent. Why is someone always better than the other one? Or how can you be the better one in this world where the fittest survives?
As a school student, you have spent all our schooldays under the guidance of the teachers, wardens and parents. Besides, your high-school life has passed while preparing for the professional entrance exams in which a very less percentage are chosen. Even if you are among the lucky selected ones in the stream you prepared. Your life won’t change because there is still a higher level of competition elsewhere. Your college life will pass in the same old boring way again; studying hard at the eve of exams just craving for marks or the so called pointers; attending the coaching classes more than the college lectures. Else, get a placement in some company and become their slave. Why do you have to follow the same old tradition as a different person? Only few will achieve something by creating or changing the history.
We have spent 30% of our lives, supposing that we are to live until our old age. Few people of our age have represented the country in sports and science exhibitions; few have made world records by beating the world history; few invent things that are useful to the world; few write books that are read nationwide and worldwide. While many will do the same work that many others have done without any recognition. Yet why does everyone have a unique dream of achieving something different? Will we be able to fulfill our own great dreams? Henry David Thoreau said, “If you have built your castle in the air, your works need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” This is true because a castle without foundations will be blown away like chaffs. But do we have enough talents to lay your own foundations?
So, who are this few people who can do it while others can’t? How can we be among this few guys? Or do we consider ourselves to be among the many losers who think they are born without any special talent? Let us not be too pessimist to think that God made us inferior than others. Erica Jong said, “Everyone has a talent, but there are FEW who are courageous enough to follow it to the dark places where it leads”. What do you say?
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