When was the last time you felt proud about being a human being? Tough one as for me Human beings are the ones who have created all that is undesired. Although, I do get to know some wonderful stories on human endeavors through my friends. In this post, I wanted to talk about something which inspired me.
It was few weeks back. I took an Auto Rickshaw in the morning as usual and was talking with my mom on phone when the driver stopped just before we reached my office. He gets down and he moved towards this small tree on the road side. I was thinking about walking rest of the distance. Just then I noticed that this guy stopped near the tree and started looking at another person who was trying to unwind something. I also suddenly realized lots of crows around that tree. On getting closer, I see this guy trying to help a crow which was struck on the tree because of some thread and was not able to fly. With some effort as the crow was not proving to be helpful this other guy managed to help the crow leave. This was a special moment for me. I perhaps (actually for sure) would not have done this If I were the first person to notice this. I felt this guy was special and he was different. What he did was not about bringing either physical courage or moral courage into play. It was about the desire to be useful, desire to help someone/something which was beautiful about him.
Couple of weeks later, I was working on my laptop rather listening to this Lata Mangeshkar Song from Dastak (1970) and I noticed a crow was stuck on a tree in a housing society next to mine. I initially hoped that it would just fly off but it did not. After around 30 minutes I realized I cannot remain a spectator to this and I started walking towards the tree. As soon as I reach that place I noticed the crow was gone. I felt good as for once I had at least made an attempt to do something useful.
Most of us struggle to motivate ourselves to be of help to others. It is not that we are inherently evil but we always ask ourselves this question of what's in it for me before we take something up. We need to bring a bit of selflessness into ourselves for selfish reasons. As someone has rightly said,
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. This was said by Mother Teresa.............
It was few weeks back. I took an Auto Rickshaw in the morning as usual and was talking with my mom on phone when the driver stopped just before we reached my office. He gets down and he moved towards this small tree on the road side. I was thinking about walking rest of the distance. Just then I noticed that this guy stopped near the tree and started looking at another person who was trying to unwind something. I also suddenly realized lots of crows around that tree. On getting closer, I see this guy trying to help a crow which was struck on the tree because of some thread and was not able to fly. With some effort as the crow was not proving to be helpful this other guy managed to help the crow leave. This was a special moment for me. I perhaps (actually for sure) would not have done this If I were the first person to notice this. I felt this guy was special and he was different. What he did was not about bringing either physical courage or moral courage into play. It was about the desire to be useful, desire to help someone/something which was beautiful about him.
Couple of weeks later, I was working on my laptop rather listening to this Lata Mangeshkar Song from Dastak (1970) and I noticed a crow was stuck on a tree in a housing society next to mine. I initially hoped that it would just fly off but it did not. After around 30 minutes I realized I cannot remain a spectator to this and I started walking towards the tree. As soon as I reach that place I noticed the crow was gone. I felt good as for once I had at least made an attempt to do something useful.
Most of us struggle to motivate ourselves to be of help to others. It is not that we are inherently evil but we always ask ourselves this question of what's in it for me before we take something up. We need to bring a bit of selflessness into ourselves for selfish reasons. As someone has rightly said,
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. This was said by Mother Teresa.............
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