here's my article "Man's Inner Voice" . a slightly edited version of it has been published in "THE HINDUSTAN TIMES" on Monday, 13th December, 2010 under the title "THE INNER CALL".
do check it out.
Man’s Inner Voice
Manisha Gupta
This incident occurred somewhere in the early seventies. My father had to travel back by bus due to some reason. He had bought a “Mithai” box for the family. But when he was told it couldn’t be found in his bag, he remembered he’d kept it in the bus overhead luggage cabin and probably failed to pick it while getting down. We were sad to hear that, as it happened to be our favourite sweet. Anyway, by the evening, this minor thing had been forgotten.
Only to be reminded of it the next day. People of this era won’t believe that the next evening, the “Mithai ka Dibba” arrived at our guest house, intact. Actually, the conductor of the bus had noticed the piece of luggage left over a seat, remembered that my father had got down just near the Forest Rest House, and so the next day, when the bus came on its journey again, he made it a point to deliver the packet to us. He took all this pain for just a one kg sweet left by a passenger! How sweet!
Which reminds me of a recent news item which said that some flight passenger’s blackberry mobile phone had been intentionally picked up by some other passenger. And this wrong doer was probably a person with a decent job. What a contrast between the two incidents! This is all about man’s inner voice, his conscience. Only that some listen to it and some don’t. In fact it is a sad state of affairs that in the olden days, there were more of the former tribe. And perhaps that’s one of the main reasons why people were happier then than now.
In this modern era, people run away from their conscience, run after things materialistic, in pursuit of happiness, in search of some unknown satisfaction. They don’t have time “to stand & stare” at their ownselves, no time to ponder or think over issues, no time to even look within oneself. This is the reason why values are depleting faster than the earth’s resources. People’s behaviour changes quicker than the climate and tempers and frustrations rise higher than the rising sea levels.
Guess the only way to contain all this negative climate change in man’s personal life is to delve deeper into himself and listen to his inner voice!
A very true observation. Today a majority is only after material well being and care a damn about other’s feelings. They won’t care for you even if it means no extra effort on their part unless they stand to gain (actually “USE YOU”). Honesty is disappearing fast and self centered attitude has become the norm. Many people will do anything to say get power, retain a position or just satisfy their self interests. If this is the attitude to fellow humans, one can clearly make out the reason for exploitation of the environment. So the fault is in the ATTITUDE and it definitely needs to CHANGE fast before humans become cannibals and along with that also EAT the environment, GOBBLING UP all its resources.
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