I was
listening to some romantic songs and was blissfully lost in my dreams about him
when a strange advertisement shocked me out of my revelry. A certain company
was urging every one to participate in a marathon.
Reason?
Health
benefits for us? No!! The reason is to support underprivileged children!
My question
is how does our running a marathon help the little kids? It’s good for our
health and that’s it. We need to stop making up funny excuses like AIDS walk,
UNESCO walk…we are just trying to appease our conscience.
Another
stupid mass display of grief is the candle light vigil. Honestly are we showing
our support or are we having a pyjama party?
Remember
the break up party from Love Ajkal??? That is how the world is today. Any
thing…even a tragedy is a cause for celebration!!
And yet…
When a
certain IPL team had a particularly exuberant party post their tournament win
people kept talking about how inappropriate it was to celebrate their win.
When a new
mother gushes about her how brilliant her baby is people mock her and say she’s
overreacting about her very ordinary child.
Apparently
it’s wrong to celebrate personal happiness and wins but somebody else’s woes
can be camouflaged into a big party!!!
Please…if
we feel sorry for someone or something we should act on it instead of telling
the world how deeply saddened we feel.
On the
other hand it’s a basic human right to feel happy…let’s not dissect and decide
how much celebration is correct when someone is celebrating his/her personal
joy.
No comments:
Post a Comment