Thursday, February 17, 2011

LOVE HAS HOPE HATRED IS HOPELESS!!!! WRITTEN FOR THE ALL INDIA ESSAY WRITING EVENT OF 2009 OGANISED BY SHRI RAM KRISHNA MISSION IN COLLABARATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS FOR INDIA AND BHUTAN.


Love  is  an  inexplicable  emotion  that  has  mystified  people  since  generations, it  is  the  one emotion  that  has  started  as  many  wars  as  it  has  ended, It  is  the  one  emotion  that  has had  endless  songs  and  stories  written, it  is  the  one  emotion  that  makes  friends  into  foes and  foes  into  friends. So  many  legends  surround  this  emotion , from  the  goddess  athena and  helen  of  troy  to  shakespeare's  Romeo  and  Juliet. Nothing  can  possibly  define  this four  lettered  word  and  whatever  does  define  it  will  continue  to  be  an  understatement. It  is  love  that  makes  the  world  go  round, for  whatever  reasons  it  may  be. love  is  a  divine blessing, it  is  a  boon  sent  from  heaven. it  is  a  greatest  healer  since  time immemorial. Because  it is  love  which  conquers  all  and  it  is  love  alone  that  gives  us t he  joie di viverie.
Love  comes  in  our  lives  in  various  forms .friendship  is  one  of  the  ideal  manifestations  of love. Love  can  be  defined  as  an  emotional  trigger  which  gives  us  a  sense  of  belonging, a feeling  that  someone  or  something  which  when  you  cling  to  will  make  you  hang  on  to the  thread  of  life. for eg: if  we  possess  something  which  is  very  dear  to  us  and  suddenly it  remains  no  more  we  feel  a  sense  of  loss. this  sense  of  loss  is  triggered  because  of  a sense  of  belonging  for  that particular  object. in  our mundane  life  we  love  things  which give  us  a  sense  of  belonging  because  it  gives  us  a  sense  of  acceptance. it  is  love  which has  hope  which  in  turn  makes  people  connect  to  that  thing  , be  it  a  human  an  animal  an  object  in  the  most  desperate  of  situations.
From  love  the  world  begins, through  love  it  grows, love  is  the  strength  in  the  world, love is  joy  for  all. in  short  love  is  the  essence  of  life. the  loss  of  love  is  death. Love  is inspiration , message,  a  hope  and  it  pervades  all. it  is  love  of  mankind  that  makes  us  pity the  suffering, it  is  love alone  that  makes  us  assist  the  weak  and  to  forget  the  wrongs. the warmth  of  loving  words  helps  us  destroy  prejudices  to  do  the  best  that  can  be done. this is  the  religion  of  love.
Love  has  hope  because  it  saves  mankind  from  commiting  one  of  the  seven  deadly  sins,ie despair. it  is  true  that  love  has  hope  whereas  hatred  is  hopeless  because  love  heals  but hatred  causes  anarchy  and  discord . hatred  and  force  cannot  be  in  just  a  part  of  the  world  without  having  its  diverse  effect  on  the  rest  of  the  world. hatred  is  the  mother  of all  evil. hatred  leads  us  to  nowhere  because  one's  emotions  is  channelized  in  a  direction where  there  is  no  ray  of  light, in  short  it  is  a  hopeless  endeavour  to  hate. hatred  leads  to destruction  not  only  to  one's  own  self  but  also  of mankind. it  was  the  german  dictator Adolf  Hitler  who  believed  that  he  was  the  descendant  of  the  Aryans -the most  civilized nation  and  therefore  he  hated  the  jews  so  much  so  that  he  caused  the  heinous  crime  of the  holocaust  and  later  on  the  two  world  wars. This  explicitly  justifies  hatred  as  a hopeless endeavour.
The  widespread  terrorist  atttacks , wars  and  unjustifiable  invasions  have  become  the  order of  this  globalised  era. people  have  lost  their  moorings  for one  another. this  world  has become  a  battleground  for  mortal  combat  and  therefore   humankind  has  turned   into  a civilization  of  beasts. the  question  that  arises  here  is  that  what  is  the  reason  behind  all these .  the  answer  is  that  it  is  hatred  which  leads  man  to  commit  such  irrational acts. those  people  who  commit  dastardly  acts  of  terrorism  do  it  under  the  impulse  of hatred. these  people  dont  realize  that  retaliating  by  hurting  others  doesn’t  solve  the  situation. on the  other  hands  it  proves  to  be  a  hopeless  endeavou  and  the  problem  returns  back  to square  one.
Hatred  can  serve  one  soul  purpose  and  that  is  to  usher  mankind  into  the  limbo  of oblivion. the  current s cenario  of  the  world  presents  a  picture  of  the  violence  and  terror  of  wars  and  of  man's  unparelellled  brutality. hatred  causes  all  round  convulsion  which further  paves  the  way  towards  a  hopeless  endeavour  of  wreaking  vengeance   which leads to  no  where.
It  is  love  alone  that  can  make  this  world  a  better  place  to  live  in. it  is  love  alone  which can  bridge  the gulf  among  people , communities  and  nations  and  prevent  the  world  from the  scourges  of war .the  united  nations  has  declared  the  year  2009  as  an  international  year  of  reconciliation. it  aims  at  saving  the  succeeding  generatins  from  the  scourge  of wars  and  to  bring  about  international  peace  confirming  to  the  principles  of  justice  and international  law  and  settlement  of  international  disputes  or situation  which  might  lead  to a  breach  of  the  peace . it  also  aims  at  practicing  tolerance  and  living  in  harmony  with one  another.
It  has  been  truly  said  by  a  sage  that "the  best  thing  is  not  to  hate  anyone ,only  to love, that  is  the  only  way  out  of  it . as  soon  as  you  have  forgotten  those  whom  u  hate  you have  gotten  rid  of them. Then  you  have  no  reason to  hate, you just  forget  because  it  is  a hopeless  endeavour  to  hate."

 
 

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