My Role Model

MY ROLE MODEL

                        Every man in his life is influenced by some people who lead him to a position where he is now, inspiring in some or other way by adorable things they have done in their lives.

                       

It is beyond imagination of a person whose deeds which might be insignificant, inconspicuous and unimportant in his own life have helped a lot in others. This inspiration does not always come from elders, oldies or famous personalities who have achieved mile stones in their lives.

                       

Smile of a child, plough of a farmer, sound sleep of a labor after 12 hours of hard work, colors of flowers, flowing river, mother waiting endlessly for her son to come back home and many other things have some meaningful messages who affect the lives of thoughtful people.

                       

A child’s smile inspires to be happy and innocent without fearing about worldly troubles. Plough of a farmer shows to be cold hearted when there is a need to hurt your loved one to amend their lives in a way that they become most successful and achieving. Sound sleep of a toiler after long hours of labor is a sort of satisfaction and peace which is achieved after endless efforts. Colors of blossoms show us to be even in every aspect of life and its beauty. Flowing river motivates to move along the path until you achieve your destination. A mother staring at door while waiting for her kids expresses care, love and emotions she has with them.

                       A role model is the one who influenced you in your life in such ways that you aspire to become like him or to do like him when you face identical situations that he had faced earlier in his own life. 

                   As I sat last night thinking of writing about my role model, i was reflecting on what good role model I have and have had as far as mother figure in my life. I am so very thankful to almighty God that I still have my mother here with all of us!

                     This blog is a good opportunity for me to celebrate mother’s day by revealing about my role model. She is the one and will be always be.

                      Let’s see how my role model is:

M- Millions of efforts she paid to let me grow up.

O- One and the only person who cared unconditionally without growing older.

T- Tears are shed by whom on my tiny injuries.

H- Her heart is like an ocean of love and emotion.

E- Eminent satisfaction in her eyes when she looks me on heights of success.

R- Ray of hope when all doors of destiny are closed ultimately.        

           

                          My mother (I call her “mummy”) is the key person in my life who supported me whenever my feet floundered, she revitalized me whenever I suffered failure, she did not sleep several nights  by sitting aside me during my assessments, she broke into tears along with numerous retrieving attempts whenever I fell ill. She is a continual source of inspiration to me. She does just about everything that she used to do 10 years ago.

                          She grew up with minimum opportunities and got married at age of just 13. The time when teenagers attain adolescence she learnt to cook for a family of fifteen! She never denied her duties to anybody. She loved kids of others more than her own and still loves. She cared everybody as if she is borne to do.

                          She never laughed along with my siblings on my repeated attempt to learn cycling, when I fell down number of times. She always strived hard to explain us about the subject we studied in schools though she was not known about them. She is an adorable daughter, wife and mother.

                           She is the first women I learnt from how to enact my strength. I look upon her and wish to be like her. A very strong woman with lot of moral values and with lots of positive energy that would make me feel energized in ups and downs of life.

                          She showed me how to interact with society. I learnt from her how to deal with money and our resources. She guided me how to manage in difficult times and how and when to show our sentiments.

                         I acquired kindness, acceptance, connecting and open-mindedness from her that help me a lot in my professional career. There are a number of attributes for which I look to my mother as an example. I am lucky she is my mom.

                         I am immensely grateful to her. Having a mother like her is a divine sanction and i wish I too could be like her one day and convey it onto my children the understanding of how precious one could be in life.

                         Thanks ‘Mummy’ for not only for helping me lay the foundation for who I am but also being a paradigm for me and supporting me to make space in this puzzled world!!

                         I wish you and all the rest of the mothers who are reading this blog the best Mother’s Day ever!!!!

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Compassion by Heart

Before writing this blog I never knew what compassion is in reality. Whether it is necessarily or unnecessarily helping people in their problems or it is showing true affection to them. What I think that compassion is something done truly from heart to pull troublesome people out of their miseries.

We well civilized people are often annoyed when forced to face unwanted crowd of children begging besides roads, traffic signals, bus stands , railway station, public places, temples, mosques and even at our doors! Children shivering under open sky with merely few inches of clothes on their body are forced to labor without their consent. I usually observe surrounding carefully while travelling by train. General Coaches as well as railway stations are always crowded with beggars.  Most of them are children of varying age groups. We never know that the thing which drives these kids to do such a pity job is their hollow abdomen. These children with empty stomachs are prone to get engulfed by so called mafias and dons who trap them from footpath and slums to force them to beg in public places and make huge sum of money. In return these children receive none other than half a cake. These children are forced to live in extreme poverty and hunger. 

These children are very much like our own. They also have similar eyes, nose, ears and everything like our own children. They have similar dreams like our own kids when they sleep on thorny beds. They have similar desires of having toys, going to school, playing games, wearing new clothes and most importantly they want to have at least a square meal a day.

 They also have, like our own kids, a right to live a better life. They also have right to dream a better future. They also have right to get enough food. They are not given birth to die starving painfully. They are not brought to this planet to live only miserable life. They need extreme compassion by heart.

They are future of a nation. They grow into future generation and have to become most empowered gentle persons building social and cultural foundation for their future beings. Unlike other animals, an infant needs extreme care, love and support of its parents until it becomes young and independent. A child needs good feeding with enough nutritional supplements. But a major fraction of children in this world are not getting enough food for their survival. 

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

                                                          Mahatma Gandhi.

     Well said by Mahatma Gandhi, a bitter truth that must be accepted by the world. It is well known that almighty God has provided all the resources necessary to ensure that no one ever leaves with empty stomach. We have sufficient food on this planet to provide every person with a square meal per day. God has done his job of taking care of the supply side of the hunger equation and the rest of the solution is up to us. The basic problem of hunger is distribution. Hunger exists only because we human beings permit it. Best and only solution to this problem to enhance feeling of compassion among able people who can help to provide food to such a vulnerable population.

It is really shocking that even after enough food on earth over 300 million children go to bed hungry every day and almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes per day. That's one child every five seconds. According to the report of the UN World Food Programme more than 27 per cent of the world’s undernourished population lives in India, of whom 43 per cent children (under five years) are underweight. Nearly 50 per cent of child deaths in India occur due to malnutrition.

 India indeed is the world’s hunger capital. A hungry world is a dangerous world and without food, people have only three options: They uproar, they beg for mercy or they die. None of these are acceptable options.

The Vedic scriptures of India provide us with some insight into the nature of compassion and spirituality:

“Everything animate or inanimate being that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.” 

Overcome with voracious greed, however, modern society blindly destroys the earth of valuable resources, and thus robs billions of people in developing countries of their God-given “quota” of food. You people are the key to the end of hunger. You make the difference. Major changes have been taken place in the world that were initiated not by governments or powerful institutions, but rather by people - individuals. Every individual is responsible for generating the profound changes to end child hunger by true feeling of compassion. Such movement have to be initiated and sustained by each individual among us. Children are innocent, immature. They cannot start such a movement in their own defence. Could any cause be counted more worthy of a people's movement? Thus we can play a vital role in this global effort. 

We must pledge to help free children from the vicious cycle of hunger and poverty by connecting compassionate people in world. We must develop a deep concern for the plight of impoverished children living in extreme poverty in the world. Come and together raise awareness about poverty, hunger and compassion.

 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."                                                                                                                                

 - Margaret Mead