“If only we could go up in the sky and see the world from there, we wouldn't find any boundaries… It’s a pity that we can’t do that”
Long long ago on the planet earth the inhabitants used to speak & understand the same language… used to wear same kind of clothes… everything was perfect on the planet for they were all the same to each other… But then nothing is forever & so one fine day a small l’le company came to that place with an intention to rule… with an intention to sell their “product”… it was a garment company… no one knows wherefrom and how it came to that land… The idea was new and so the inhabitants looked upto the company and listened to that company in excitement… unaware about the intentions of that very company… The company used to produce “garments” of different colors- red, yellow, blue… Initially the company produced very few colors to the people… but with the success of the idea, the success of the product, the colors multiplied… The people had never seen such bright colors and so they bought the garments… The news spread and within no time everyone knew about the company and their product… those garments… The company introduced the word “different” to the inhabitants… it was a new idea… It was the first time that the people heard that word and so they listened in silence about that word… the concept of “difference”… the concept of “identity”…
So with time there were different sections of people different colored garments… different sections were formed on that land, the same land where once up on a time there was just one section… that is for all… one could easily identify who belonged to which section… People bought the idea of “difference” and so a difference was thus created between them… The employees of the company wore “grey” garments… The company arranged various lectures n’ seminars for those different sections… to educate ‘em about their idea… Each group n’ each section was convinced that their color was the best… they were all programmed to think like that… They became obsessed with their colors… with that idea of differentiation… And so that idea resulted in some boundaries between the people… some lines were created on that once upon a time boundaries less land… some divisions were made…
And whenever a child was born to those sections, to those communities, they fed him/her with the same idea, the same thought… the very thought of “differentiation”… of “identity”… of “color”…
Time passed and that very company grew with time… The company now had branch offices in each and every corner of the world with a number of outlets selling that fabulous product… that idea… a garment that should have clothed their bodies did much more than that… It now clothed their minds… That garment, those colors became their identity… Those company guys wearing grey colored garments were found everywhere selling that idea making those boundaries darker n’ darker… wider n’ wider… so wide that it was next to impossible to cover the distance… that widening divide…
The company then targeted one color out of those many n’ created one face- one image n’ pasted it on that color… and that image was passed on to the remaining colors in silence… It was a well thought, well researched idea that resulted in a program which the company made… The image created was so ugly n’ horrifying that the other colors were afraid of that one color n’ started hating it… Initially they were not convinced… but the program was so well made that with time they were convinced about that image of that one “color”… so with time that one color was looked down up on by the other colors… they were all scared n’ hated that one color… that one color n’ that image together made the company a worldwide success…
The company has huge expansion plans n’ the way things are moving on it’ll continue to be a success… The employees of the company are so devoted and hardworking that it’ll grow even more with time… people are so used to their colors, those suits, those boundaries, that thought process now… The company is like one big cloud covering whole of the earth, whole of humanity… it never goes away… and when it rains, there’s just one color everywhere… thick dark “RED”… the color that unites us all… the color of blood that flows in our veins… Irrespective of on what color it rains, the result is the same everytime… RED!!! The same color that united the inhabitants before that company came into the picture…
Only a miracle can save the inhabitants from that enormous cloud… I look forward to that miracle… But I also know that miracles don’t happen on their own… so rather than waiting for that miracle to happen, raher than standing n’ watching it all from a distance, making opinions, it’s time we should act now before it’s too late… It’s time to act!!!
You may ask now, what’s my color… what’s my identity… what section do I belong to??? What is the color of the garment that I wear???
I am but a thought… just like that company… though I don’t like this word “different”, but now that you ask me let me tell you that the color of this thought is very very different than the color of the thought sold by that company…
Let’s start a company just like them n’ make garments to clothe the entire humanity… let’s not give any name or color to this thought… this garment… let’s just sell this thought…
A thought… just a thought, changed the face of this earth n’ of its inhabitants… and only a thought can change it again…
“If only we could go up in the sky and see the world from there, we wouldn’t find any boundaries… It’s a pity that we can’t do that”
