Ailung Avennoho
Old Minister Hill, Kohima
Here the world personifies ‘people around us and the unseen challenges we endured as a person’. We human as a reasoning being quite often fail to understand certain things until we attend certain age. The writer would say, the world is so uniquely diverse and we must take our time to learn what lies underneath rather than quick judgement.
It is hard to talk about life. Even many scholars provide various definition of life with no exact conclusion. It is actually a vast subject and to understand life, it requires idealistic analysis and pragmatic experiment. But the writer would like to express in his own words how he sees the world.
Ups and downs in life are the rule of nature which the writer called it “Antonyms of life”. If there is good elements, bad elements is obvious. No person life is cent percent perfect, smooth and upward direction. When we have a beautiful day with sunshine over our head, we must also realize there is a stormy gloomy day on the other side of the river. We should also refrain ourselves from imperious attitude when we achieve something but rather we must meek ourselves and works towards for greater achievement in the future. Time tick, season change, day in and day out, we never know what lies ahead. If good things are happening to you today, thank God and prepare yourself to face the antonyms of good. If bad things are happening to you today, get ready to encounter the antonyms of bad. The “Antonyms of life” makes our journey interesting.
Every fruits that look freshly don’t taste well. There are some people who pretend to be nice and who earn the title ‘good man’ in the society but unbeknownst to other, their actions fall far beyond what was expected from a good man. They are the one who always walk in their own interest while everyone is striving to achieve the common goal. Who want everything for themselves, never let go of greed. They have the cruelest mindset, ‘if I’m okay who cares the rest’. They represent chameleon disguise in human form. They hold higher position in social hierarchy but their invisible dirty works is utterly visible. Next time when you see a freshly fruits, don’t advertise before you taste it.
Someone does really care about us. We all cross paths disown and brokenness somehow or the other. At times, we don’t find purpose and eventually become despair and lonely. But what we consciously or unconsciously fail to realize is that someone dearly love us. There is invariably someone who always mulls over about us, prays for us and checks our safety and well being. That someone is our parents, siblings and friends. Perhaps, that someone is an unknown person who always keep us in their prayer, who had sympathy for our struggle, empathy for our pain and delightful of our success despite their failure. Yes someone really loves us and care about us.
Good deeds come round. The old proverbs which goes, “as you sow, sow shall you reap” had an impartial impact to the people. Those who sow the seeds of bitter, reap the unbearable sorrow.
Those who sow the seeds of love and compassion reap a heap of blessings. Showing love, impartiality and sympathy to the one who needed will not go in vain. It verily comes back in unexpected time. Do good to others without any expectations from them because that’s the best armor we can wear in a generation where love become cold and dusty.
What it taught us as we closely monitor the true nature of the world is that every clap that we hear are not the clap of appreciation but also disparaging clap, every glittering is not a diamond because even the dirtiest water glitter when light ray on them, every hen and chicks that comes in our doorsteps don’t belong to us likewise everyone around us are not our friends, higher the ladder the harder it fall, even iron get rusted and break, tall trees can only be seen with the presences of shorts ones and lastly, just because we have a rotten potatoes doesn’t mean everybody own a rotten potatoes.
