PONDER UPON IT

I have observed and noted changes in celebration of FESTIVALS. When I was kid and had two brothers , we were enjoying festivals with more gaiety.Though my father was only bread earner in the family and we were living in two room flat type CHHALI/ DELO in UPLETA. With scant resources, my mother start preparing for such festival days before. So was the case with our neighbors too. Muslims friends were also participating and we were enjoying id at their home. No rift was there at that time. Muslims friends were enjoying our company more then some of their family friends.

Now in these days what change I found ? In these days FESTIVALS are celebrated not for our own sake but to show others that we are so much happy..!!!!! In DIWALI and DUSSARA we put colourful lights on road and in ID muslims are duplicating the same. The way competition has begin in between two companies and they start media campaign for the sale...!!!!

We have lost charms of celebration as we do not have inner peace and are afraid of even our friends. Festivals ask us to forget all eremites and feuds and start from the beginning. Festivals ask us to take inner look within our self and compel to make inner and self audit..Do we do that ?? Probably not. We are posting pictures of Diwali and ID on face book wall and not showing our face to our friends. Complete dried and lack luster festival these are. With prosperity we gain in last decade, we have lost confidence in our relationships and we live helplessly , afraid of our future and of our next generation. This was not the faith behind the festivals we were bestow upon by our forefather..............

I left this to ponder upon by all of you....