Does anyone care about some one else?

Is life too easy to come by? Is life priceless? Is life too precious to lose? Is life something that you are supposed to cherish? Is life something that you should live to the fullest? Yes; I think is the answer to all those questions above. But, I think adding a little 'your' in front of every 'life' in those questions will actually be the correct thing to do.

I say this because man today is too busy to care about anything except his own well being. I don't blame man himself for the attitude that he has today. I probably have the same attitude. I look at a child on the street who is begging for some food with almost nothing on his body, begging for a moment in your life. You are too busy to give anyone except yourself a moment in your life!

Doesn't the thought of that child later on; when you have the time to think about him or her; run a chill down your spine?

Today countless number of people die everyday under the local trains in Mumbai. Do we after reaching work or home give that person who probably was run by your very train a thought? I don't think we do. I saw the carcass of a lady who was run over by the train in front of me once. The carcass haunted me at night. Is life so cheap today that it doesn't even deserve a thought?

Does anybody care about the commoners today? Do the commoners themselves care about the commoners? The politicians and the people at the top will come later. Do we actually care about ourselves? I don't think we do. The attitude of me, you, all of us has to change in order to make all of our lives more significant; not for me but for us. 'Chalta hai' has to change to 'nahi aise nahi chalta hai.'

Is religion an excuse to create nuisance in India?

I don't intend to hurt anybody's religious sentiments via this. This is just something that has been troubling me for a while now. I am a student in South Mumbai and the recently concluded Ganesh festival has left me disturbed more than anything. The amount of inconvenience that was caused to people was immense. Traffic was brought to a grinding halt on the four days of the visarjan. The noise pollution levels were prepostrous. The pollution that the immersions would have caused in the sea would have wreaked havoc in an already polluted ocean around Mumbai. The sea life would be destroyed like this.

This does not apply to only hindus or muslims or Sikhs or Christians. Everyone uses religion to his or her advantage. The politicians, film makers, everyone fools us in the name of religion. But the question that always troubles me is whether all of us know what religion truly is. I am sure Jihad does not mean merciless slaughter of innocent beings. I am sure Ganesh ji did not want to harm his own creations. The Hindus kill Muslims and vice versa. Why does this happen? Do we actually understand religion?

No, we don't. We interpret religion in our own way and our interpretations; well most of them if not grossly incorrect are grossly mislead. Who do we trust; the priest in the temple, the gurudwara, the mosque? I think we should trust our own heads. Think for once; is all this nuisance worth it. Loving your god is totally just but God never wants a big bang. God always wants it to be solemn and inconvenient. What do you think?