LIFE from other Point of View

These summer holidays were a great fun for me.Enjoyed them to their fullest with family,relatives and friends.As it is said that once you made a great start, then automatically there is an happy ending (don't whether this is the right proverb or not :P ). To start with i had went to my each and every relative and spent some quality time with them, and then home sweet home ,spent almost full of vacations at home when suddenly my dad came up with a plan of going to 'HEMKUNT SAHIB - a beautiful gurudwara in between the lap of seven hills' at the time when just 15 days of my vacations were left. Though initially i was not at all happy with this plan of going anywhere because i was having a great time at home, but my dad in his great style of convincing people gave me a good enough reason to me to change my mind. He told that we haven't been for vacations for quite some time now because of my 12th exams and then competitive examinations and then next year also i am not going to get a long vacations to go out of station ,so when we have the time and opportunity to go we must not let this great chance to miss out. So i agreed but somewhere at the back of my mind i was not willing to go but then i would also like to mention that this trip also had a great impact on my way of thinking and to see the lives of so many people out there which i would have definitely not realized if i had been at my home for the last 15 days also.

So here begins my journey------

While the plan was being made, many of my relatives and cousins also joined us and that made our trip a memorable one.This was the second time when i was going to that place but i had been there when i was very young so had a very vague idea of everything and every place we visited although i had been there. While in the train i saw at a station a poor lady at the platform who was just sitting at the corner and talking to herself.Her dress was at a disasterous condition nad people said she was 'mad'. While looking at her situation it was quite clear that she did not have even some amount of proper meal for past few days (who knows maybe for past many days). Now this question arises that was that lady mad or the people out there present at that place were 'mad' that no one could feel her needs, pains and worse situation to take some step forward and help her. While saying so let me not forget to mention that I was also one among those MAD PEOPLE who didn't go ahead to help her. Then i moved on with my journey , nothing remarkable happened till i reached Govind Ghat ,our first stop. Here i would like to mention that to reach Hemkunt Sahib, we have to either walk or maybe hire horse or go in 'paalki- in which u just sit and 4 persons carry u uphill'. Its total distance from Govind Ghat is 19 kms but there is a stop after 13 kms and then people move on with rest of the journey next day because that day one has to go rest 6 kms uphill to gurudwara and back to the 2nd stop the same day.

I , my cousins , my dad and mom decided to walk through the whole path, while my aunts took paalki and my sis hired a horse. So we started at 8 in the morning . It was a great feeling at the start that we are 'walking' though this rough and stony terrain. But then as we moved ahead we saw some really old uncles and aunts walking on that path chanting the name of god at each step they made. Seeing their such a great effort to not to surrender to the harsh situations really could have fired up anyone , and their strong determination of walking through complete path
walking was surely backed by the blessingS of god who didn't let them down. I could really see on the face of some aunts that how much they were struggling (they bent and were holding their waist with one hand while stick with the other) and they use to stop after every 5 mins to take rest and then again back with full energy and yes gods name in their mouth :). FAITH and BELIEF are so big in their actual sense i could realize that day. And mind it it was not at all an easy task , the path was actually very poorly built or had been damaged because of rains, there were big stones in the path, it was slippery and very rough kind of terrain. I being so young
compared to them got tired after every 15 mins that I could very well realize what was going through for them. And 2 of my cousins were walking 'bare foot' on that path (hats off to them) this was also the faith that drove them through whole path , even when one of my cousin who was walking bare foot was ill he didn't let us realize about his illness else we would have forced him to wear shoes or sit on a horse.

1 thing that I pointed while walking was the people who were carrying paalkis and those who were handling horses, they had to do so much hard work to earn their living because walking on that path was really not that easy and they were traversing that whole distance 'twice daily'. And to think on the other side what comes out of the life of a horse. I could
see how they were tied with some iron ring around their nose and pulled . They had not only carry their own weight but also the weight of the person sitting on their back and that too how were they maintaining their balance on such slippery path. All they get in return for this hard work is some food. And for this they have to sacrifice their freedom ,take so much pain and also have to take another pain of getting fixed that iron shoes with nails at the bottom of their legs.

Here comes POINT OF VIEW in picture. is freedom related only to human beings and not animals, don't they have got right to live their life as they want -- free , without pain and when it comes to food one can always manage food for itself. The thing is that do we ever bother to look into life of other people , animals and birds from their point of view.

What pain would that horse must be feeling while moving , what pain does a bird feels when it captured in a cage (at one side they have an endless sky to fly and wander anywhere they want and on the other a small cage in which they even cannot open up their wings) , what pain would other animals feel when they are bitten hard to entertain some people in a circus etc. We tend to cross our limits when we are in mode to enjoy making fun of other person but do we ever bother to think what he/she must be feeling at that moment. When a person falls on road most of us laugh ( many a times i have also done the same)but do we think that that person might have been hurt. One more example to end this session -- when our cricket team which is one among the best in the world looses to a weak team like bangladesh ,our so called cricket lovers try to blame and abuse our cricketers so much that if one hears such things in person one would rather commit suicide :P .Do we think when we loose the other team who is not so strong has won , this one defeat of ours gave some one( people of that country) a reason to smile, to enjoy and to be happy and encourage their players that one day they can also be one among best teams in world.

So, every thing has its 2 sides , one can either be unhappy looking at the dark side or maybe HAPPY seeing the brighter side of life and to that point of animals i myself don't see what can be done to remove this because they are really needed but then who will see their pain....................