In VANITHA (July 15-31), a fortnightly magazine, published from Kottayam, Kerala, India, i read about a celebrity by name MALIKA who 'risks' herself to save the lives of many caught in road accidents. What that really urges her to take this 'risk' is her own bitter experience of the loss of her father in a road accident. Her father would have been saved if at least one person who passed besides him had the kindness to take him to the hospital on time. But they all preferred to be part of a busy moving but 'motionless' crowd. Had the crowd, at least one of them, transcended their/his/her 'motion' to be 'motionless' he would have been saved.
Often we tend to be passive observers in such cases of accidents. In this busy world, for us, such cases of accidents are just part of a 'landscape'... and we opt to be 'motionless' or to be accurate, 'emotionless'.
No...
Next time we see an accident...we should not remain '(e)motionless'. Let us stop moving and 'be moved'. Let us bear it upon our shoulders to save one life...save ones life...not because the one who lies there could be our brother or sister..but because he/she who lies there IS our brother/sister.
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