How many of us care? Not about ourselves but about the person sitting next to us or the person living next door or as a matter of fact about a fellow human being. My dad used to say that times have changed and these days nobody cares about others. I never thought that was true at least the nobody part. But look around you will find thousand of such instances which prove my dad’s point. Let me give you a small example.
What will you say if I try to overhear your conversation? You would say that’s I am eavesdropping, that I am invading your privacy. But what if a person sitting beside me goes on jabbing on his/her mobile phone and makes me hear his conversation though I have no intensions of hearing what he is talking about. This, my friends I say is, invasion of my privacy.
Mobile phones when they first arrived were a boon because you could now talk to a person whether or not he is at home or office. But of late it has started turning in a bane. People start talking without even caring where they are or whether they are causing inconvenience to others and at least 60 – 80 % of these calls are conversations which can wait.
Well this is just one instance. There are loads of such cases. Now you would say why should I care if somebody is inconvenienced it only matters to me if my work is done? True but think of the day when such a thing happens to you too. Your inconvenience might not be somebody else’s inconvenience.
I used to think only my happiness, my convenience matters to me. But well I have to admit I was wrong. If everybody starts thinking like that our world will be in a state of chaos. But then again there is a limit to this caring for others. This caring shouldn’t turn into policing like it happened in the case of film actresses Khusboo and Sania Mirza. It is neither my problem nor concern if somebody has pre marital sex. I think people are intelligent enough to decide when and what they want to do. Also people have the right to say what they want. That is one of the constitutional rights that Indian constitution provides a citizen of India.
Why does a mullah or a pujari or a priest have to tell us how to live our lives? Why don’t people understand that religion is like a guideline that tells you how to live life not a rule book whose rules should not be broken. These days everybody wants to have a say in somebody elses life. Just read in the news paper today one of the leaders who was protesting against Sania Mirza for coming to the aid of Khusboo that they wanted Sania Mirza to concentrate on playing tennis rather that modeling. Who the heck is he to tell her what she should be doing. Its her life she can do anything. How would he feel if somebody comes to him and says that you have been living all your life wrongly and the way you think is wrong and I shall tell you how you should live or think. How would you feel? Angry, disgusted ,outraged………………..
So before trying to interfere in somebody else’s life by caring too much or by not caring at all just think how would you feel if the same thing happens to you because at the end of the day we all have to live on this place called earth depending on somebody else for most of the things and you wouldn’t want to piss that somebody off would you?
What will you say if I try to overhear your conversation? You would say that’s I am eavesdropping, that I am invading your privacy. But what if a person sitting beside me goes on jabbing on his/her mobile phone and makes me hear his conversation though I have no intensions of hearing what he is talking about. This, my friends I say is, invasion of my privacy.
Mobile phones when they first arrived were a boon because you could now talk to a person whether or not he is at home or office. But of late it has started turning in a bane. People start talking without even caring where they are or whether they are causing inconvenience to others and at least 60 – 80 % of these calls are conversations which can wait.
Well this is just one instance. There are loads of such cases. Now you would say why should I care if somebody is inconvenienced it only matters to me if my work is done? True but think of the day when such a thing happens to you too. Your inconvenience might not be somebody else’s inconvenience.
I used to think only my happiness, my convenience matters to me. But well I have to admit I was wrong. If everybody starts thinking like that our world will be in a state of chaos. But then again there is a limit to this caring for others. This caring shouldn’t turn into policing like it happened in the case of film actresses Khusboo and Sania Mirza. It is neither my problem nor concern if somebody has pre marital sex. I think people are intelligent enough to decide when and what they want to do. Also people have the right to say what they want. That is one of the constitutional rights that Indian constitution provides a citizen of India.
Why does a mullah or a pujari or a priest have to tell us how to live our lives? Why don’t people understand that religion is like a guideline that tells you how to live life not a rule book whose rules should not be broken. These days everybody wants to have a say in somebody elses life. Just read in the news paper today one of the leaders who was protesting against Sania Mirza for coming to the aid of Khusboo that they wanted Sania Mirza to concentrate on playing tennis rather that modeling. Who the heck is he to tell her what she should be doing. Its her life she can do anything. How would he feel if somebody comes to him and says that you have been living all your life wrongly and the way you think is wrong and I shall tell you how you should live or think. How would you feel? Angry, disgusted ,outraged………………..
So before trying to interfere in somebody else’s life by caring too much or by not caring at all just think how would you feel if the same thing happens to you because at the end of the day we all have to live on this place called earth depending on somebody else for most of the things and you wouldn’t want to piss that somebody off would you?
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