Most of us fail to stand up to the occasion, most of us.
Do not kill yourself if you are one of us
We are all living on, after all.
Why should not you?
Most of us do not stand by the woman narrating her pain.
We try to look for a motive.
We are never as afraid to be caught on a wrong foot as we are then.
"What if she has an ulterior motive?"
"I only know one part of the story."
Our urge to be just knows no bound, when a woman tells her story of pain.
So what it is the only time we felt this surge of desire!
So what if we have made errors of judgement many times and lived!
We can not. Not this time.
But don't worry if you have not stood up. Live on!
Most of us do not stop when we see a body lying on or by the side of road
It's a human body. One of our own, but wait!
No! not one of our own.
He is in tatters, she is lying in blood, he rides a motorbike,
She was passing in a three wheeler...
That was a child of color...
He seemed from the slum nearby....
They are not our own.
We can't pay attention to everyone on the road.
Haven't we been told not to?
We do not stop by the body. We carry on.
Life carries on.
We do not stand up to the occasion when it comes to practice too.
"Keep your professional beliefs away from personal life"
A well-wisher had told me once.
Living your life is different from the theories that you belt out in office space.
You can talk of honesty, if you have to,
But you are not required to live an honest life.
You can talk of truth, if you want to
You don't have to be true to yourself or to the ones closest to you.
We can talk of equality, justice, you can talk of love among people
We don't have to live it.
We don't have to stand up when injustice occurs.
When someone gets raped, gets killed in front of our eyes
We don't have to raise so much of a voice
We can live on.
And how about raising a finger?
Now that's a different matter altogether,
How else one clicks pictures otherwise?
I have one question though, can we then look at those pictures?
And picture ourselves?
How we were?
How we stood?
What position?
How clear?
Can we think of being there again?
Can we? I thought otherwise.
But then two days ago, you did that again.
And as thousands spend sleepless nights looking at those pictures,
I need to ask, how you live on after taking those?
After standing there.
I know we all fail to stand up and we still live on.
But this one time, can I plead that at least one of you to go kill yourself?
Like those Naga soldiers after returning from Chhattisgarh did?
And let me know we are after all human beings..
Once again.
Do not kill yourself if you are one of us
We are all living on, after all.
Why should not you?
Most of us do not stand by the woman narrating her pain.
We try to look for a motive.
We are never as afraid to be caught on a wrong foot as we are then.
"What if she has an ulterior motive?"
"I only know one part of the story."
Our urge to be just knows no bound, when a woman tells her story of pain.
So what it is the only time we felt this surge of desire!
So what if we have made errors of judgement many times and lived!
We can not. Not this time.
But don't worry if you have not stood up. Live on!
Most of us do not stop when we see a body lying on or by the side of road
It's a human body. One of our own, but wait!
No! not one of our own.
He is in tatters, she is lying in blood, he rides a motorbike,
She was passing in a three wheeler...
That was a child of color...
He seemed from the slum nearby....
They are not our own.
We can't pay attention to everyone on the road.
Haven't we been told not to?
We do not stop by the body. We carry on.
Life carries on.
We do not stand up to the occasion when it comes to practice too.
"Keep your professional beliefs away from personal life"
A well-wisher had told me once.
Living your life is different from the theories that you belt out in office space.
You can talk of honesty, if you have to,
But you are not required to live an honest life.
You can talk of truth, if you want to
You don't have to be true to yourself or to the ones closest to you.
We can talk of equality, justice, you can talk of love among people
We don't have to live it.
We don't have to stand up when injustice occurs.
When someone gets raped, gets killed in front of our eyes
We don't have to raise so much of a voice
We can live on.
And how about raising a finger?
Now that's a different matter altogether,
How else one clicks pictures otherwise?
I have one question though, can we then look at those pictures?
And picture ourselves?
How we were?
How we stood?
What position?
How clear?
Can we think of being there again?
Can we? I thought otherwise.
But then two days ago, you did that again.
And as thousands spend sleepless nights looking at those pictures,
I need to ask, how you live on after taking those?
After standing there.
I know we all fail to stand up and we still live on.
But this one time, can I plead that at least one of you to go kill yourself?
Like those Naga soldiers after returning from Chhattisgarh did?
And let me know we are after all human beings..
Once again.
