Leading a life

          After a long time I went to my place and of course it was quite a pleasant feeling to be back home!

           While casually talking to my family, they mentioned things about one of my batch mate, saying he and his mom had come over to shops to sell the products that they had manufactured.

          While talking about my batch mate his mom had said it like ‘I don’t feel bad that my son is not a good scorer in the academics, I won’t let that be a disadvantage to him, rather I would teach him the things I know i.e the art of selling, by which he can lead a life.

          She even added, what is the use scoring marks and getting some average jobs at big towns and cities that you don’t deserve ?

           You work monotonously for some minimal salary where in you are not able to save money as well as have the peace of mind?

 ‘How true her words were’ was the thought that came into my mind.

          Of all people I know it usually is the case where in the approach of any parent would be to make their child study the general academic course.

           Be it any field, the technical or non-technical, much of the focus would be on giving the set of education to the child as per the syllabus.

             I feel the chances of that education helping an individual for leading a life comes to a bare minimum.

          Instead of just pressurizing to cover up the syllabus and go to job that gives you some pay, why not in addition to covering up the studies we teach our child how to lead a life!

           Some things like, when few job doesn’t work out, the child must not be frustrated for not finding another one, rather he must be able to earn a decent living and lead a good life.

            Instead of being unhappy all time for being underemployed. He should be taught to do things that give him some control over his life.

        I feel the day when the parent teaches the child those things that help the child lead a decent life rather than just be better in a rat race would be the day that is best for both parent as well as the child.

Speaking about the Dead.

          The roads were filled with vehicles on the Sunday evening, the horns of vehicles echoing all around the ears and the signal turned red making the traffic to stand still. The traffic signal board was displaying 140, 139, 138…….

           There was a weird kind of model that was made, something like a tableau of a decorated boat! Of course there was a banner hanging with a picture of a man in it and the band played the local music with few people dancing around the tableau.
 

            There were people around talking and praising some person, naming the good deed done by him and few others’ eyes were filled with tears.

        It took me a while to understand that they actually were carrying a dead man for cremation.

       Death is quite a thing for us the humans, at times during death we start to say good things about dead, that too only when he is no longer able to hear them. And for whole of the life when he is present, not a single word of praise is done for the good deeds of that person!

Why is that it’s always too late to say anything significant to the person that would make him happy or a better person?

            It always made me think why is that we only say the most important thing to be said to the person only when he or she is no longer there to hear them? What’s actually the use of saying good things at that point of time?

Making a little change in our routine lifestyle how about we say those things we feel to that person the moment we feel it? 

              Of course it’s quite complicated! Obviously you may get your nerves chilled but at least the person to whom you want to convey what you felt is surely conveyed.

There would always be that kind of satisfaction inside you and less regrets of not able to say the things that you always wanted to say.

         Speaking the thoughts of the receiver, he would obviously be happy if anything good is said about him, and if anything said for him to be a better person, he would be very much satisfied to hear that at least there’s someone who’s been caring about him and wants him to be someone better.

       The horns were honking when I came back from my thoughts, the traffic signal showed 2 green arrows and I resumed my journey to the destination.