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It was a lazy gloomy day in Bangalore, and my mind as usual was racing with a million thoughts. It first started with the auto ride back home, and the driver was very unusually friendly. When you stay in India, you need to learn to be alert at all times, so I found his behavior very disturbing and I was itching to get back home safely. On my journey home he questioned me about my whereabouts, and what I’m doing in this city, you know the general questions. But in the end he turned out to be a nice guy. These thoughts kept nudging me for a couple of hours after and it, knowing my mind, took me off on a trip. A few insignificant, but the important ones are what I’m talking about now.

I realized that we all are trained to judge some genuinely nice people, as someone with a plot in their heads. We are all so scared of people to such an extent that either of the extremes freaks us out. We cannot deal with people treating us nicely or showing that they care, because, in our perception, the whole world is only looking to see what is the best they can get off us is.

We human beings are first of all very selfish, so selfish that even obtaining it at the cost of another human being’s life is child’s play. We have so many things around us, but none of it is ever enough. We always want more and more, and when there is none left, we want more of something else. We talk at great lengths about ourselves, that we can create energy, travel the universe, recreate the big bang theory, and have understood the workings of this planet. But we fail to understand a very basic thing, which exists even when we know about nothing else. The feeling a child has towards its mother, what animals and plants have amongst themselves, and on what this whole planet is built on. It is Love. Not the love which is expressed in the words “I love you”, but love that exists even without having to say it, to justify it, or to have to express it. You just have to feel it. The love one has towards your friend, an animal, a stranger on the road. To be able to give someone the very basic respect not based on their status, achievements, class, race, caste, gender or any such thing.

Humans are placed at the top of the food chain. Why??? I think we need to be placed right at the bottom way below the rocks. Yes we are capable of delivering mighty speeches on how we're going to make the world a better place and how we're all striving towards eradicating poverty and hunger. We have an Angelina Jolie trying to adopt all the kids in the world to prove that she is a good human being, and an Oprah Winfrey offering 1 million dollars to everyone who watches her show. You don’t have to prove and justify yourself to the world. They don’t care. It’s you who has to live with yourself at the end of the day; you need to have a clear conscience and a peaceful heart. We might be out there in the sun being a part of the Terry Fox Run, the Breast cancer Run, or a Charity event. But maybe we are all doing this, just to hide that little voice in our heads, constantly telling us that we’ve done wrong, or we've been selfish, or we haven’t given. But love does not lie in such material things that we think are the only ways. It starts with respect for a person, regardless of being dark of fair, being educated or not, being able to talk in English or not.

So stop proving your right in your ways and don’t try to justify yourselves. Just know that if you are stripped off all that you think you are, it might amount to nothing valuable which is what counts in this world when you are gone...