Let us all blossom the withered flowers.

Let’s start this one with a little world of imagination. Imagine you are walking down a street with your most favourite candy that you’ve been awaiting to eat since many days and just as you are about to unwrap it and stick it into the mouth, you see a small beggar’s child staring at your candy helplessly. Without a second thought you hand it over to that child and the silent smile on his face expressed everything. No wonder that child would have been very happy with that tiny feast. 

To live, we fall into all sorts of businesses, just to achieve ‘pleasure’. There is one kind of pleasure which we do for enjoyment like listening music, shopping (particularly when on-sale), watching favourite movies, hanging out with friends, eating in our all-time-fav place, etc. and a lot of such other stuff. And there is other kind of pleasure which gives a smile of relief on our face, example, like the one you just read above! Recall the recent tragedy at Jammu and Kashmir. Multiple of thousands of citizens there, lost everything and got trapped in between the aghast. When they were being rescued, no wonder that would have been their happiest day and would have showered the blessings on the rescuers, but even more than that, the life saviors would have felt a peace of eternal bliss by helping them! 

Read out this story to get me straight to the point. 

It’s a story about some youngsters pursuing the second year of an engineering college. Like any common collegian, it was their usual random day, with exams on head and to put aside the stress, they decided to stroll out for a power-feed of snacks. At their regular stall, a small boy aged roughly around 8 served their order. By mistake, he spilled the tea on one of the friends’. The owner roared at the poor kid, but somehow they managed to make a peace. After they moved back to their rooms, everyone’s minds were back to the study but one mind was still stuck in that kid’s helpless life. He couldn’t help himself, stop feeling the overwhelmed sympathy that had just bred inside him. He thought, this dynamic youthfulness and higher education is of no use if it is not spent on the poor beings. He expressed his idea to all of his friends and there was no reason of denying it. With a motto of educating as many child-labours, as well as small underage children who could not afford to go in schools and study, they made their first step of nobility by admitting that small boy (that had served them in the stall) in the school. Of course, it was a hard task, convincing his parents, finding the sponsor, but that boy had a brilliant mind which definitely was not meant to be wasted in laboring at any food-stall. Those friends then spent their spare time in the town looking out for such brilliant capable minds. Soon, their act of grandeur spread amongst other students of college and the group kept expanding and so did the number of children. The group was turned into an NGO named ‘Bachhpan’. 

Friends, the above one is not any book-written story. It’s a real life chapter of those friends. ‘Bachhpan’ (https://m.facebook.com/Bachhpan) was started in 2011, by the students of one college at Vallabh-Vidhyanagar (Anand), a small town of India. The organization is divided into two main projects Aadhar and Pathshala. Today, under project Aadhar, 45 children are being admitted in the schools and under Pathshala, around 400 poor children get their basic education. Pathshalas are actually small tuition gatherings, where at regular interval of days, the college students go to teach in the slum areas. Students, not only from the founding college but also other nearby colleges feels proud to be the part of this organization. It has also started expanding in three other districts. 

So, my point is, if a simple group of collegians can give a share of humanity to this world, why can’t we? Charity begins at home. When you will see a needy child, growing up as a good civilian of whom you are the cause, you will receive the best boon of blessings. 

It is said that child-labour has been banned. Has it really? According to UNICEF, the recent count of child labours in the world is around 218 millions. The global rate of educated population of the world is 84%. Think of the considerable amount of reduction in child-labours if each of the literate person descends his education to at least one kid. Everyday, media, newspapers, and magazines come up with charities done by the government, celebrities, the NGOs, etc. They are already known to you. Now, it’s your turn! 

Roger That: 
Join ahead in the world where pleasure means only selfless services.

Whenever you think ' WHY ME ? '

Friends, I am going to talk in this article about a simple word, Adversity.

What is adversity?

We can say it’s a term generally defined as, A state of misfortune, or, A state of adverse conditions. Google defines it as,

      A state of hardship or affliction; misfortune.

      A calamitous event.

Did it really define it to the point?

Nope, I don’t think so!

It’s very obvious in one way or other, each and every living being on this earth, has experienced it. From the minute ants till the giant elephants, and we all of course! Not only after an infant enters this world but right from the time, before a baby is born, with a plethora of care, it has to survive in a mother’s womb. A minute mistake in this may lead to any fatal situation!

As it grows, it enters in the competitive world. Then it might be a competition with its siblings or friends, or winning a small race. Next it comes up with the challenges of scoring good grades or winning up a trophy, or beating someone in the play-station. As a grown up adult, it has to stabilize with all the circles, like family, friends, a special someone and above all ‘The self’.

Thus, in every phase of our life, there comes this situation called “Adversity” to what most of us consider mere lack of fate. ‘Maybe it was not the right direction for us’, we think and drop down the trauma there or I should say drop down one trauma and enter into another trauma of grievance! All of us has gone through ‘Why me?!!?’ dose several of times, isn’t it?  Well, I’ll come back to this question later. Let’s read one short biography first.

By 2007, the world got introduced to an immense and an extraordinary novelist. Her seven striking hit series of the novels, year by year in a row, became the world’s best-seller! Can you venture a guess who am I talking about? (Oh yeah, Potter fans I hear that right!) J. K. Rowling-aka-Joanne Rowling. Her success is not unknown to anyone. I wanna take you back in 1990, in a four hours delayed train trip from Manchester to London. This was the moment when an idea coined up in her mind. A young boy attends a magical school of witchcraft and wizardry. The idea soon turned into implementation. She began to write right as she reached destined junction! She was pretty excited about her idea of writing something big but unfortunately before she could talk about it to anyone the following December she lost her mother. She got married two years later and gave a birth to baby girl the next year. Before that, she had already suffered a miscarriage. Year 1993; this was the year when dark clouds grounded upon her life, when her marriage got shattered. They say she endured domestic abuses. Rowling, totally devastated, marked herself growing as a total failure. A woman; who, in her mediocre age, lost the company of her mother; whose marriage turned out to a failure; who was jobless and on whom a small child was relying. All these intercepted a clinical depression and even contingent suicide. However, you always have to live for your growing kid. Rowling lived on welfare benefits. Here, the welfare benefit means financial assistance allotted by the state to the needy individuals. By 1995, she finished her first manuscript. It was submitted to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected. Somehow, Barry Cunningham agreed to publish, though advised Rowling to get a day job since she had a little chance of making money in children books. She continued writing with a faith. Well well, fortune favors the brave and so it did in the case of J. K. Within five years her faith and perseverance lead her from a shatter pated lady to a multimillionaire!  

This was just a minor example. Friends, if you give it a deep thought, everyone around you and everything that you see, is trying to say out loud the lesson, “Do not give up”. Say, the television. Basically what’s the idea of every daily soaps, most of your favorite series, any kids’ superhero movie, or the dark touchy love-stories? In all of these, the lead’s life is ruined to the core, so that they can come out sparkling at their best.

It’s very well said that man is a social animal. Now, what’s the difference between actual animals and so-called social animal? We say, humans have got minds that are wise. Are they really? If your answer is yes, I would contradict over here. I say, all the creatures but humans are wiser!

Let me explain why.

Do you remember, as a kid, at least once, you must have played with the little ants, tortured them by blocking their way. Did you mark, no matter how many times you kept your hands or objects on their path, they never took a U-turn from their direction and instead moved aside and continued ahead! Birds! Howsoever time we make them fly; they won’t stop catching their prey. Then, monkeys! Even they won’t stop running after their food by any hook or crook.

Deeply thinking, all of the creatures have this striving ability. Practically, we can say that they are wiser than mankind. And what do we do in such loathed situations, enter question à “Why me!??”

Why you, because somewhere your fate knows you are strong enough to rescue yourself. Just speaking out loud that ‘I am the Boss of Me!’ won’t change your attitude. Life keeps challenging you every day. Turning the tables and challenging your life makes you the Boss of You. Courage is the need of situation. As without it, Jerry could never have outwitted Tom, little Nemo could never have met its daddy, Tweety could have never have got rid of Sylvester, Richie Rich could never have saved his property loots, Scooby Doo and his friends wouldn’t have been able to solve mysteries, poor Simba cub couldn’t have managed to become the Lion King and all the superheroes of the Justice League would never have emerged.

So now, we can discover here, the new definition of Adversity:

The state or calamitous situation; in which you are the chosen one, so that you can recreate the same into some constructive one.

Roger That:

Stop whining. The dark tunnel ends with the light outside. You simply need to follow the light J