Main Zinda Hoon!!!

“For every action, there is equal and opposite reaction”.
This law defines the most fantastic behavior of matter and mass.
Since my school days, I have found the third law of Newton’s Laws of motion most practical and most happening. It is a part of each one of our lives. The reaction coming out of you proves that you have witnessed the action & have acted upon it. It does not matter whether how much do you react, the lawful and obvious part is that you should react.Its Nature’s Law. The intensity of the reaction is decided upon by a lot many factors, for e.g. sometimes you act wildly to prove yourself in an argument or somebody strikes you when you are in extreme pressure and hurry and sometimes you loses all of your anger when you see tantrums of your 3 yr old son.

But the eternal truth says that if you react, you are part of this very world, otherwise you have renounced this world either physically or mentally. A glass breaks into hundreds of pieces when forced upon but on the other hand an elastic elongates when stretched. So the reaction depends on the nature of the matter. We also behave in a similar manner in our day to day life. Sometimes we accommodate ourselves according to the force and thus survive and sometimes we break down against circumstances.

I still remember my school days when lots of text on the pulp taught us how to act and how to react. “Never tolerate injustice “, “Always speak truth” or “Fight for your rights”. I was on the third last row, corner seat, rephrasing teacher’s words with all of my classmates. Now on the crossroads of life, I hardly remember when I would have followed those texts, those white chalk written characters by Miss Dolly D’Souza (my English teacher). They had lost their importance in the darkness of the blackboard. The darkness of life is more intense which washes out the whiteness of truth.

Now I think I have adapted myself with the world. I have learnt to accept things, circumstances, situations and system without changes. I have heard people saying,” If you want to remain in the system, why do you fight against it. Come on lets be part of it.” Others were saying, “Yaar, life is too short to react against this Monster System. Your little effort will hardly move it by an inch.” All the spiritual gurus too have told me,” Everything you do has already been destined". So why to fight yaar, Why don't we accept the things as it is our destiny?

So I have known to remain silent .I am enjoying life now. I used to get shocked reading obituaries, accidents, terrorist attacks or riots. But now I have known to turn over such “idiotic” pages. Newspapers do have a lot of important news like apparel malfunctioning of top Indian model, why to skip that?

I have learnt to be blind and deaf when a girl is raped in the country.I have learnt to avoid casting vote as I don’t have guts to change the politics of this nation though I hate it. I have learnt to remain in queue. I have learnt to give some gifts to seniors and administrators whenever I want my work done.I have learnt to dissipate my frustration through sweat in local buses and trains with just 12-15 inch place for foot.I have stopped to compete for the best opportunities in life as all of them are already reserved and I don’t want to reserve my life too in the name of “struggle for rights”.I have forgotten all kind of courtesy or morals. Because it were they who used to make my blood boil, but now I have learnt to “Chill out “, dude!! I am a “Cool Dude” now!!

Whenever I go to any disco or pub I don’t remember those ugly dirty faces of beggars and child laborers. I don’t know why they are here in this world to spoil its beauty.I think now I have become a Gen-X guy. I have accepted the system in its original form. Though it is distorted, but now I am fully ready. The system won’t be able to make me react wildly. I can handle all the strokes of it gently. I think I will be able to survive according to Darwin. But some times a question arises, “Am I Alive?” “kya main zinda hoon?”
“kya Aap Zinda hain?????”(Are you Alive???)