Wisdom from the happenings

Ruchika Ratthi
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

STORY #1

My grandpa use to say this to me ‘always find someone to look up to’ . i was 9 and i had this wicked imagination so from a 9 year old what can you expect i made harry potter my idol . Not because he was popular or the greatest magician of all time but there was this kindness in his heart that attracted me the most and i was like yeah ! i wanna be that kind and humble .

It was going good wearing that kindness and generosity cap on top of my head. Until the puberty hit me and suddenly the characters around me i.e. the people , all of the sudden looked like a they were a part of the Slytherin . They were all mean and unkind . you know when the god plans the difficult circumstances of your life , he also gives you the tool . i had few good people and my own prof. Dumbledore (my spiritual master). and i guess everyone played their character very passionately to guide me .

being almost at the verge of crossing the childhood phase , now was the time where my mind was going deep into the thought processes . So i was watching youtube and i saw the interview of lord Voldemort the one i hated the most . initially it was astonishing to see him very gentle and kind and humble .

i mean it was opposite of what i imagined . HE GOT A NOSE !!! like the real one . the one with cartilage and bone. he is not furious to kill.

i kept glaring the phone with HOW , WHAT , WHY feeling for a really long time seeing him responding nicely . i just hated the character so much that i didn’t even know his real name was Ralph fiennes .

i realised something good at that few seconds of time , something that i can pass as an advice to people

WE DON’T HATE THE PEOPLE ,

WE HATE THE CHARACTERS THEY ARE PLAYING.

i never hated Ralph fiennes, i barely even knew him . i just hated the character . and maybe it happens to all of us we hate characters that the people are playing in our life but the actual person probably be the good one.

We are a part of story , all of us . Bound with the character we have to play some can be good , some can be bad but in the end when the mask is pulled off and we are close to dead .

we all are one genuine human beings just the ones departed from our characters.

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