TWO

           “What kind of person are you...Good or bad?” Ask this question yourself or anyone around you, the most probable answer would be, “Am sometimes good and sometimes bad, it depends on the situation” or would reply like, “Am good to good guys and bad to bad guys” But the persons who can be grouped as “good” alone or as “bad” alone, are those who had stood in the heart of people and history.

Bad means, being really good at being bad. Like the ‘Joker’ in ‘The Dark Knight movie’. Even in a class, the teacher will remember only the students who score 100 and the students who score 0, because both are special. Scoring zero is as hard as scoring 100. If you think am kidding, think back your own marks. You would have scored 10’s, 20’s… 90’s, 99, and even 100 sometimes. But how often have you scored ‘ZERO’?  Honestly I haven’t scored zero. So next time, never mock at a person who scores zeroJ 

 

                Consider Gandhi and Hitler. Gandhi was very good. Hitler was very good at being very bad. World can never forget both of them, not really because of their deeds, but because they never hid their own self. One proclaimed, “Yes! I am good” through his actions, and another one proclaimed through his actions, “Yes! I am bad”. They were never afraid to reveal the world their own self. Not only them, but many similar personalities, both ‘good’ and ‘bad’, are there in history of our own country and the world. But only the good-bad persons are those who are welcomed everywhere, we call them shrewd and smart. And we find the other kind of persons very different from us, that we cannot accept them one among us. Famous fighter Bruce Lee’s words would conclude this well, “I don’t fear a person who has practiced 1000 different styles of kicks, but I fear a person who has practiced a single style of kick, 1000 times”

                Every one of us has/had this quality of pure goodness or pure badness within us. But we hide this within us, to show mixed qualities, because of personal and social commitments. Every one of us is enslaved to every other’s thought. We fear what society will think about us if we behave differently, if we wear out of ordinary cloth, if I have an ordinary mobile, and a lot more “what will they think, if I’s…” We wear attractive clothes, not to our comfort but to attract others. Many marriages happen because of the same social pressure and status war. We hesitate to help someone injured in accident for the same reason. That’s the same reason why we confine ourselves into boundaries, communities, religion and god. That’s the same reason why we earn money too. Money can never give happiness and content to person. But we still go in length to earn it, not for us, but to earn respect from society. After all, humans are social animals.

                The day we break our shackles of social commitments and pass through the stage where we stop caring what others think about our actions, that day we will be most happy and content even with money just enough to buy three square meals a day, without worrying about next day’s meal.