DO NOT KILL THE ROMANTICS

There are times when life seems so eventless that we find ourselves looking into the distance and into the bleakness of life and thinking ‘What’s ahead?’ We don’t always get an answer. Instead, a big void, a path that seems pretty lonely stares us in the face. We feel there is nothing going to happen to our lives ever. Absolutely nothing interesting! But we also often see that from that monotony and lonely existence something sublime is born. We may not explain it in terms of worldly gains. But it builds us and makes us what we become hereafter.
Today’s world is found running after the gross. It has no time to sit and reflect on things that can change his life on a smaller level and the world as a greater level. How many are there who feel happy when there is a sudden shower, or how many get elated to catch the mist on their skin? How many feel good when sounds of nature such as the voice of a bird fall on their ear?
Today’s word has most of its people who instinctively live for themselves. There is no harm in it too. But we don’t see die hard romantics any more who impulsively do acts of courage, chivalry, kindness or goodness. How many like to read nowadays? How many forget themselves when they look at the sky when nature is at one of its different moods? Do we get time to look around us even? Most of the time we are busy with our own problems and the rest of it is spent before a television, a computer or in shopping malls. We have forgotten that this earth is a unique gift from creator and each and every element in it is a wonder in itself. We have taken things for granted and we are not going to be forgiven for it. That’s another thing. We are killing the romantics in ourselves. J. Krisnamurthy had once told in one of his discourses that one cannot enjoy a full moon night unless the mind is free from worries. Life has become complicated. Human race is losing its innocence. Science is providing us comfort and turning us into emotionless, mechanical beings. Unless we simplify it, unless we make a really serious effort to bring back romanticism into our lives, nobody knows where this upward cum downward journey will take us.