Moments

We live in a world people are so busy they could not stand a queue or wait in the traffic jam during a daily morning commute. Its a busy world, you know. Lots of things has to be done, be it an important decision in your business or choosing what flavor of ice-cream to have. The list goes on and there is nothing wrong about it. We hail technology making the world a smaller place by bringing everyone closer and making our lives easier, robots making our work much simpler and giving a precise output, driver-less cars, talking about sustainable energy.

Its all great, seriously. Consider someone time travelling from 1950’s to our time. I’m sure they will think “Damn, Aliens are real”. Development is an important aspect of human evolution, and we are going in a right path, right?

Not so much. Its true that we have a bot in MARS telling us whats happening over there, a space satellite well beyond our Solar System, but are these the only things that define the word “development” or “evolution”

As much as we hail our technological developments, we do not give a damn about social development. Sure we have facebook and twitter, but how many of us know about our facebook friends in real life? If so, to what extent. How many of us care for our neighbors who lived next door for years? Do we even know their middle name? Forget about the neighbors, do we know our own children?

Life is made up of small moments, small memories. The first kiss with your crush, those heart pounding moments when your crush approaches you, those moments of seeing your dog learn to piss properly, those moments of sleeping in your mama’s lap, those moments of learning you had with your old man, those intimate moments of cuddling, those surprise plans to hang out with best mates, those heart racing moments of guilt, those moments of embarrassment, feeling alone, being loved are all what makes up our foundation as Homo Sapiens. Without those moments, there is no difference between the robot which gets the job done and us. Without those moments we are no different than a computer doing calculations.

Are we really humans, physically? sure as hell yes but mentally? I beg to differ. The most important aspect of human emotions are felling loved and making other feel loved. Is that not what we do with our partners, our parents, our friends, our children? Is that not what we want to? Of course, we need unconditional love to survive. But these day the aspect of love keeps getting vanished in to the thin air, like a smoke vanishing in mirror.

How would having sex with love, making love? How does praying for a homeless without helping them out(when you can), make any sense?

You see, A Dog loves you, no matter what you do. You’re his whole universe and for him everything revolve around you. That is unconditional love. Being on your side when everyone leaves you, making you feel comfortable and making you speak to him in human language even when we know he doesn’t understand the language, providing that level of comfortableness, that is unconditional love.

The love we are used to in our time is all but conditional. The moment when you tell your kids, If you do your homework, dada’s gonna kiss you”, you teach your children that love is conditional. You need to earn it, instead of being loved no matter what. This is our century’s problem. There’s a scarcity of unconditional love. I mean why in the world two people who vowed ‘till death do it part’ leave each other when there a problem with a green piece of paper?

Lovely moments make or break our mood. Even though you can cure malaria, dengue, swine flu, there is no meds or pills for heartbreak. Because it is an integral part of our lives. These lovely moment are the only things we need to making human kind a better species. I don’t what you believe. I believe God breathed in to the nostril of a clay structure he made and it became flesh and blood. I would not force you to think its true. For me, I wanna make my maker proud of me, just like a proud father of a guy who puts his life on the line and save people, save lives. If you think human are evolved from apes and though millions of years made us who we are, all these years only to be selfish, uncaring, destructive species. You and I know better than that. We can be better than that.

Finally, when you care for your neighbor, you don’t slander. When you love you family and kids, you don’t leave them just because you can’t take it anymore, when you love your parents, you won’t let them live alone in their old days.

Life is made up of moments and moments are made up of love. They are just as important as the technology and money. So let take an hour, put everything on hold and tell someone who clean the window all day long, they did a great job, tell the exhausted barista that they are doing one heck of job serving the crowd, tell the broken hearted that they are beautiful, tell the odd looking boy with a funny name ‘you are unique’. When we do that, that’s one giant real leap for the mankind. Don’t forget to enjoy the moments when you have them because they ain’t waiting forever and we don’t have a forever here in this world. Start appreciating what you have, I’m sure that will get you a more richer life where moments of happy memories weigh more than material happiness. Peace

I was inspired to write this article after watching a video, I’ll give a link to that below

https://www.facebook.com/bestthings.co/videos/300201503686998/