Have I really wasted the last two years ?
Mostly people around me did everything they could in the last two years so that they could be more, we can say, “ Productive”. I mean ‘ main toh abhi tak figure out hi nahi kar payi hu last two years yrr ’. Was it easy for you people ? I am going to be very monotonous in this one but what can I say, that’s my whole two years summed up in a single word. They just passed like a storm and I couldn’t even catch a breath and understand, what was exactly changing around me. I am not saying that I was just sleeping for two whole years, although mostly I was but my eyes really opened when I shifted to a new home.
Yes, it brought me close to nature and actually gave me peace but along came many doubts and expectations because I started college. But, guess what? I am still confused. I am learning new things everyday, meeting new people, have lots of connections for my career opportunities. I want to build my own brand, I want to work for the benefit of others.
I do not want to give back to the society. I want to give back to those who were never considered the part of our society. I am a part of it. I can’t deny that but these two years maybe didn’t help me in my own growth. Maybe I didn’t learn a new skill, maybe I couldn’t build a brand till now. But I understood people. I realized their needs. Doesn’t matter from where they belong, what language they speak, the one common thing what I saw was that, they all have needs. I always say that maybe I don’t have that many opinions about life or politics in general but I do have opinions about ‘Humanity’. I realized you can’t only be a humanitarian with physical help. You need to give people emotions. I hear this a lot these days. Be practical ‘bro’. But you tell me, how can I be practical when I see a cow lying in front of me in the middle of the road? tossed by a XUV because the sir or madam sitting in it were so drunk to see an innocent cow, who can’t even scream in pain. How can I be practical when I regularly tell a woman, to not come with her 3 year old baby boy in this heat of 37 degrees for begging on streets. Is there anything you can feel after learning about that boy or the cow? The similarity I see between both of them is their inability to cry for help.
Now, you can see that too, right? Maybe you won’t tell me now but I know you felt it too. And you will keep feeling it until you do something about it. I am not asking everyone to go out and be an activist, save the world. But help them in whatever way you can.
Some Examples can be like : make LED glow bands ( it can be of Orange colour )for all the animals in your area. Ask your friends to help you out to make that. Make it a craft session and then tie all those bands to the neck of those animals and yes keep it in mind it shouldn’t be too tight that the animals choke on it or shouldn’t be too loose that it falls. It will help the drivers at night to see those animals and could save both accidents and animal deaths. Try to do it for your colony street animals or other colonies too as much as you can because it will also increase the EQ between animals and humans, especially kids. The kids will not only grow loving animals but they will also grown in a positive environment and society where humans and animals will be co-existing. They will never think inferior of the animals and that is something that our next generation needs to learn and our elder generation needs to unlearn that they are inferior.
Then if you see a woman like I did then you can help her get a job. Any job which she is capable of doing or eligible for. But it’s not only about women, if you see anyone in this state you should help them too. If the person is some elderly then you can go for some old age home where they can learn some skills like stitching, gardening, or anything they are interested in and help them get some small job. Likewise, if you see some kid in a bad state then you can help them get enrolled in some ‘Nishulk Path Shala’ or Madrasa's ( Which are available in every city of India ) so that it can help them get the basic education they deserve. We all know, that we can’t do a lot because it’s not in everybody's capacity but you can try and have hope that some lives will change and their future will be better because hope is all we can have, right?.
Use your ‘ Practical knowledge’ here. All this is at very small level helps that people like us with privileges can give back to those whom our society doesn’t even consider as the part of “ Our Society ”. There are people who are doing these things at a much bigger scale. Also, if you are not at all able to do something at your level then do get in touch with these big people, who has been helping others all their lives because they will know exactly how to help you.
So, in conclusion this is a very small portion of what I observed in the last two years and it’s not easy to accommodate all those overwhelming moments in a single story because I might cry. Hence, I am not saying that “Practical maat bano” but do not shut yourself from the emotional world you live in. Maybe you won’t learn any soft skills but you will learn the biggest of all, Life skills. So, eventually I didn’t waste the last two years, I suppose. What do you all think?
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