Reflections

  Sometimes we take others for granted, we are occupied by an inflated sense of self-worth, which reaches the point where no deliberations are held and no opinions are shared. A sense of self-worth which does not allow communication, where enmity breeds disrespect. A situation where you become so exclusive to self that you lose connection with the rest. Such situations abound in friendship where one cannot stoop a little to save it, in relationships where neither of the two is ready to compromise and negotiate, in political discourse where the loyalty for an ideology supersedes wisdom. In those times, I am often reminded of the following poem by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Uchai   Uche pahad par, ped nahi lagte Paudhe nahi ugte, na ghaas hi jamti hai. Jamti hai sirf barf,  Jo Kafan ki tarah safed  Aur maut ki tarah thand hoti hai Khelti, khilkhilati nadi, Jiska roop dharan kar, Apne bhagya par boond-boond roti hai. Aisi uchai, Jiska paras Paani ko patthar kar de, Aisi uchai, Jiska daras heen