The destiny of labour

The destiny of labour

“Hard work is the key to success”, is a powerful old adage. It has awakened a sleeping individual, has kindled a light of hope in the dying minds and has motivated people like you and me to rise up above our competitors. There are evidences of things changing with the flavor of hard work whence added. Whenever we fail to achieve our targets our well-wishers remind us to focus on hard work. Intensely intensified intention is a requisite in the terminology of hard work. Precipitation with perseverance has always been a must.

But I have a question that haunts my mind. Is hard work the only key to success? Can’t the lock to success be opened by other keys? I ponder, since the road to success is divergent, versatile and long. I have travelled, so I know. We often picturise the road to success as an uneven path, difficult terrains with never- ending curves and highly indefinable.Let me rename the road to success as “Rts”. The road to success is non-challenging for a normal individual but tremendously challenging for the extraordinary ones. The Rts is not at all magnetic. It seldom attracts people. It is a diamond in a crude form. The main problem of Rts is that the destination can never be seen. We expect the destination to be somewhere ahead and move on. That can be a reason why many people drop in between. To follow a road to an unseen destination requires a lot of tenacity. The road to success is an alien to most of us. To quote what Robert Frost said in his poem “The road not taken”-

“I took the one less travelled by

And that has made all the difference”.

Yes, the Rts is mostly the road not taken. Of course we cannot deny that hard work is the key to success but along with hard work there are many more factors which lead us to success. The most powerful of all factors is “time”. Any amount of hard work rendered at the wrong time will fail to balance the equation of success. However we try to climb the road to success ignoring all our needs we may not be successful if the right time has not reached.

 The second in line is hard work endorsed with positive motivation and planned scientifically. It can pull our graph vertically. Irrespective of our toil, if we ignore the logical parameters and work day and night it may not produce effective result.A farmer sowing the seeds at an odd hour in the dry soil, failing to nourish the seed will not reap a successful harvest. Any amount of hard work if not backed up with correct proportion of motivation and logical set up, will give us an undesirable result.

Rts depends on our competency too. Every individual is equipped with a particular skill of his or her own. If we devout a larger share of time to develop a new skill which we don’t possess at all, it is indeed futile. If a butcher by profession forces himself to change his trade and become a painter can he write a success story? So, with hard work we can indeed polish a skill but cannot develop a skill. Proficiency is an inborn talent.

Another important fact about the story of success is our own destiny. There has been many cases where a lot of hard work has not helped an aspiring candidate to success. With all the ingredients in correct proportion and the sweat all day could not help many to realize their dreams. In some cases it is simply a matter of destiny. Many people don’t accept the fact that destiny has an upper hand but in some cases we see it is true. Therefore along with labour, time, motivation, logical thinking, competency, the crown of golden destiny plays a strong role to escort us towards success. So to conclude, we can in a way come to a consensus that all hard work don’t merge with the sea of success. Some dry up in their way and become a story of inland drainage.

 Tanni Bose

Human cosmology (as I entitle it)

Cosmology is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. Now, why am I representing the concept of cosmology? Yes, there is a rationale behind it. I talk of human cosmology where the origin is birth, the evolution is adolescence and the eventful fate is a bright future garnished with education. Today’s youth is the representation of a turbulent sea, featuring high tide after sunset.  At times it corresponds to the earth which moves but we don’t feel its motion.

In words of James “ Youth is the joy, the little bird that has broken out of the eggs and is eagerly waiting to spread out its wings in the open sky of freedom and hope.”

Today's youth, in general, seem at first glance to be tough, sophisticated and wordy. This is the outer shell of the modern youth, but underneath is the soft vulnerable part. Questions of religion, of morals, of politics worry them. Sometimes it is the searching for truth and for the answers to life's problems.

Youth is the spring of life. It is the age of discovery and dreams. The youth hopes for a world free of poverty, unemployment, inequality and exploitation of man by man, a world free of discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, language and gender, a world full of creative challenges and opportunities to conquer them. 

Now enters the relationship between youth and education. Education is a must for a successful life. Now, let us not baffle around the real sense of education. Education in its all-inclusive form goes beyond what takes places within the four walls of the classroom. A person might have attended the formal schooling or might have made the real experience a school to learn. When a child learns to paint his formative years, he also has a fear to spoil it. His beautiful painting can become a masterpiece with the artistic strokes of education.

Education in my concept is a beautiful song sung in chorus, a life size sculpture determining destiny, a bouquet of different flowers which make an impression, a prayer in solitude also a proud moment of appreciation. Education is simply incredible and when our youths are nurtured and nourished with education they them self become work of art.

With Juvenile crime and delinquency increasing day by day it is only moral education that can help our young minds to stay absent from these acts of insanity. The ability to change the world roots from education and inspiration. Value based education is essential in developing moral values like modesty, faithfulness, honesty, courteousness, tolerance, sacrifice etc among the youth. Meaningful education promotes all round development in the learner.

Patriotism and loyalty are tools for nation building. Moral education will imbibe the unrefined mind and churn the ocean of uncertainty, apprehensiveness and bring out true citizens of a nation. Youths of today deserve a chance and it is only with the tough, razor-sharp weapon of education that a young mind can create history in the present land.

No other asset can lead to so many different positive outcomes that can improve our overall life condition. So what are we waiting for?  Education is a key factor in our life.

With reference to human cosmology where our origin is not in our control but the evolution and fate can indeed be primed, reformed and even polished with the grace of education.

Homage to Greenery

The door knocks. I open the door. But Alas! It is not the opportunity that waits but the dark face of disaster greeting me. I can feel the cold welcome of death and destruction. It would be unfair if I say that I was unaware of the knock on my wisdom’s gate.

It has been more than a decade that we are being constantly reminded about the steps we take in our day to day life. Seldom do we conscientiously take note on the heart beat and consider to what it says.

Deki caresses those beautiful flowers and waters her garden every day. Grandma relishes the evening chat sipping hot tea as she sits on the green carpeted lawn. She smiles at the Gulmohar and recalls the day when she collaborated with Deki to plant it in the garden.

The woodcutter next door without any hesitation sits under the shade of the banyan tree not knowing that he is the one who adds on to the misery of the earth. The lumbered wood falls on the earth stating an end to its glory. Why is this sad tale revising and repeating every time? Why are our hearts so poor to turn down the offer of disgrace? In a moment’s time we surrender. Then the story of bitterness begins and would last till the death bell tolls.

Every year on the world enviornment day we pledge to preserve and protect our environment. We plant new saplings, water our existing dreams so that it multiplies our happiness. “Greening the blue” is the pledge of the UN this year. Our earth with 3/4^th of water bodies and 1/4^th of land mass, clothed with green trees is a rare planet in our solar system. We are recklessly on our way to make the planet colourful without the greenery of the leaves swinging in the wind. The large shopping malls, theatre houses and star hotels are the evidence of destruction.They shamefully stand on the ruins on the graves of the fallen tree of life. This is not a tribute we are supposed to pay for the priceless trees.

Lately, the nerves of the government in countries all over the world are shaken. They are in a move in making policies to protect our earth from turning cold. Their policies ensure that the earth is not de-clothed again and again. The poisonous gases from the factories every time adds on to the scars on the beautiful face of our mother earth. She cries bitterly and laments on the ruthless gesture we show towards her. She helplessly watches herself being torn apart amidst the greed of modernisation. Why are we in haste? We repeatedly prove ourselves to be the “farmer” who greedily sacrificed the goose that laid golden eggs everyday”. On every move we are sealing our fate. A fisherman would always pray for the rivers to never get dried up so that he can survive and earn his livelihood. Everything we do is for a selfish cause that we cannot evade but there is always a way to protect our endless greed so that each one of us get an equal share. Let’s plant trees and keep the earth green. It’s an old promise which we have to remind ourselves because the promise made in the real sense of the term means a lot.

Let us not terminate our life and add on to a sad tale but in fact help the earth retain its greenery on which the other planets have ever casted the green eyes of envy. 

Let us gift Deki the inestimable happiness forever which she fosters in watering her pet flowers and may grandma ever find her happiness in sipping hot tea amidst the greens.