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Sunday, January 24, 2010

road side beauty


Road Side Beauty


This was an incident of winter’2007; I was coming back to Bhopal by 6 am bus. It was very cold actually and a stiff environment. It was in Itarsi, I was enjoying my tea with a book in hand. Even though it was 9 at morning, but it was too cold. I was wearing a denim jacket and a muffler. So, one can imagine the pinch of cold evil wind around that time.
Then suddenly I watched through the window, which was very striking; a lady of around 40 approx sitting with her girl (hardly 20) on the dirty pavement along side the rode. The most striking thing was their face; for sure the girl was neither looking as miss universe or something. But one will sure want to see that kind of face in a big screen. Yes! She was indeed a symbol of beauty. Not Cleopatra or Elizabeth, but someone whom you cant deny. But there was a evil fact about that girl, her cloths were dirty and torn, one could see her naked body from outside, hands were covered with mud and dirt, as if she washed herself a decade ago. She looked poor then an beggar, or she was a beggar, I can’t tell. The irony of the condition is that we, the normal people are afraid of getting on to that condition, resulting in our ignorance about their pain.
As soon as I saw that road side beauty, I felt pity on her, then on myself. I realized that its just the matter of fact that you and me are not facing the conditions prevailed to her. We are not been betrayed like her. Fellow beings like her and others often get indulged in crime and wrong thing. Don’t you think we, how often ignore them and act like a moron, are serving them with a reason to fall in the pit of trouble. There are NGO; govt. agencies etc. who are striving to help those road side peoples. There are indeed many funds rose every year to serve those, but do you think those raised funds ever reach the victims, the obvious answer is NO! And we never stop enjoying our part of life.
It’s my prime and simple urge to every individual to make them feel that they are special, special to you, to me and to the world. I have and always will have beautiful face hidden somewhere in my heart and soul. Hope that everyone will face such a beautiful reality, one day........

Monday, January 11, 2010

WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE NOT BEAUTIFUL?


I have just come back to my room from my friend’s den. As a daily affair; today also I was in four wheeler. A journey for 20 minutes or so. A stranger on the next seat to me; very fair, around 18 to 20. Quite a good figure and of course not need to tell that she was physically well structured. But there was a small painful fact about her face.
When I firstly saw her face, on that instance my mind and heart cried –“what the hell!”
And really it was. Indeed she was looking like an alien or a character of “HILLS HAVE EYES” or “WRONG TURN”. Weird and horrifying was the experience, if I need to tell one. Alas! The gift of being fair and good body and may be a good family background (which I believe she has); even those things never got counted as she did not had a face of a normal youngster. It seems to me that she was suffering from GOITER; her muscles around her neck and cheeks seems to get enlarged more then her face. And those black and brown spots even served to this curse. It seems to be full of ugliness. And later I to felt pity for her. I personally don’t know her or actually that was the first and last encounter we had; but those responses that I showed towards her; is that humanity? For the first time I thought not to call myself a evangelist or a philanthropist.

The real idea to tell this incident of mine is to ask everyone just one simple question- If you are having a normal face or body, and you call yourself beautiful- think about those who are not as good looking as you are? Don’t there deserver the appreciation what all gets? Quite often when we see beggar or a burnt guy or a person suffering from malnutrition or someone like that girl we tend to change our path. I know this may not hold up with many of us, but many of us does that, isn’t it!

Being fair or dark, beautiful or ugly (or actually not beautiful) is the creator’s part to play. When I look myself in mirror I find a fatty brown short Indian boy, having nothing good in appearance. As every boy I dream to have a beautiful partner beside me. I know same is the case with every youngster. And I am quite sure that girls too posses the same attribute. Then what about those, who are not a part of anyone’s dream. Like the girl I firstly mentioned in this article. Do they have to live there life with a life time compromise, or a grief of not being normal, or the sadness of being ugly etc. etc. etc.

I never thought of anyone to be my partner who is not beautiful; I commit it. But do you think this kind of thinking will give that person the care and love they deserve. When my friend fights with me; it hurts. Then what about those ugly boy and girl who don’t have friends to fight with. It sounds very harsh on them, but this is what we created. I need not to blame anyone, all are evenly guilty for this. This is our luck that we are gifted with a normal figure, but for them we are the mirror through which they cherish the thing they don’t have. I think like this, we all have our own idea about this but I need to just remind you to ask a question to yourself- “what if you are that ugly girl ?”

Realize what you have and also remember what they lack of; this sense of understanding can built a great difference to our fellow beings. Always keep asking yourself-“WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE NOT BUILT BEAUTIFUL”…………….
Aniruddhya baidya