The Journey

Speaker: Om Prakash

                              

While I was on the way to Odisha, I boarded on bus from Kuju to Ranchi to catch my train from Ranchi station. Just after Ramgarh in the valley few passengers alighted probably family members, and they were looking like tribal’s, but while sitting on window seat my eyes stick to a kid among them. He might be a 3-4 years kid, blessed eyes were sighting the bus. He captured all that moment with an innocent smile, full of charm and enthusiasm, can’t say whether it was due to the eulogy of traveling or for arriving at his home. The ‘Rich’ kid had vested full slave shirt and paint with barefoot. All members were in their best outfits according to their resources.

I smiled throughout the journey, that incident reminded my childhood days. When we gained only one or two sets of clothes in a year in Dushara and sometimes in Holi also. I still remind that I pour out my clothes several times before I could opt for them and used it for 2 to 3 even 4 days continuously. The happiness was described less, not only me that was the same feelings among my all generation friends with more or less equivalent economical class. Today I have a job with a handsome salary also our nation’s per capita income situation became quite affordable to spend on non-essential products. Overall India’s economic situation including myself is getting better day by day. Now I can afford a shirt, Jeans, shoes, etc whenever I desire, I think I used to buy one or two products for my outfits per month ceaselessly.

But what’s the basic and major difference amid today's situation and my childhood state is the bliss on that kid’s face, the zest is really missing among us all, that one or two pairs of our clothes had given us so much satisfaction that today’s whole spending can’t! As an Economics student, I can say it’s a theory that Availability is inversely proportional to want, but that’s not merely an economic theory it’s also a life theory, and more than any theory in today's era we are missing the value of life. We all are busy for the lust of unrealistic prosperity of life! Probably I may be wrong to some extent but overall we can realize the surging unsatisfiability in society. The desire is becoming limitless, the competition to keep others low getting sharper, the real path of enlightening getting far and far and we are living a fake life.

We all just need to enjoy each moment of life, should celebrate even small happiness, life is just about a matter of second don’t know which second will be the last one, no guarantee of life, but one thing we all can assure to live flawlessly, to live each moment, to enjoy each dawn and assume whatever will come we will accept them with open hands with big smiles, like that kid with having a lot of zest in his eyes.