..or
are losing fast..
The
quest to lead (or be led) a life of the proportion you thought of and treading
the chart blindly has inherent risk of ruining everything that was human in
you.
You
never knew when the blind race started sucking you squeezing out of you the ‘human
you’.
On
the surface, nothing seemed to change. You lived normally. Days passed. Every
day was like the other day. You worked to set scales further higher. You worked
even more.
Nothing
wrong. All so good. Materially. Practically. All so worldly.
But
not aesthetically. But not holistically. But not the human way.
You
didn’t realise when you became too self-centred, too calculated with your life,
stopped considering anything else than your self-interest.
You
didn’t realise when you started counting every moment for a possible trade-off
with this or that material prospect.
You
didn’t realise when you started taking every other development as the precursor
to the next step of the worldly scale to be achieved.
You
didn’t realise when you started treating every relation by the value of its
return-prospect in your life at the cost of the ‘old-fashioned’ but the
irreplaceable word, ‘commitment’.
You
didn’t realise when you started seeking everything only for you; when you
started seeing every other thing, event or person just as mere means for
fulfilling ‘that you’.
You
never realised, midst all this, when you sacrificed so conveniently your innocence.
You
never realised, all this while, when you so selfishly lost that childlike
person in you that was to be your last redemption asset.
You
never realised when you compromised your conscience to act ever more
selfishly, following the narrow-minded path of the extreme self-interest.
The
innocence that could have given you a better understanding of the relevant and
the purer side of the life; could have taught you the significance of the
small; could have told you the relevance of the mundane; could have let you
think in the moments of the thoughtlessness; could have made you feel the
presence of the nowhere; could have made the human in you survive and
prosper, was so easily killed by you in order to gain more material wealth
at the cost of the inseparable emotional quotient.
In
the rush to realise the extreme materialism, you decidedly forgotten the indispensable
trait (innocence), a value that let a human soul flourish to its fullest
– a life lived fully having seen, enjoyed and appreciated all its colours in
totality of the ‘self’; in vitality of the moments small and big; in mobility
of the empty days and unoccupied moments; in joviality of the achievements and inspirations
thereon; in scalability of the setbacks and negative energy afterwards, seeing
the life the human way in its every happening; treating the external sphere of
your life (and events and people there) as human as you expected for your own self.
Do
you give even a passing thought to what you have lost and what you have become?
Do
you realise what you are losing and what you are going to be?