Life some times throw some interesting questions at us, we often measure the winning of life’s battles by the mean of material wealth, but is it really so? I personally believe that the final treasure which we amass is in our soul, not in our home, and the former treasure is root of all the happiness in world.
I have a friend, he is a very honest guy, honest means those copy book honest, who believe in living an honest life and in protesting wrong things. He lives in a remote town, he tried to stop some illegal things being done in his town by some hot shots backed by political leaders. As a result, they tried to crush him down from every angle, they used to threat him, scandalize him, a couple of time physically abused him, in one word, they tried to make his life a perfect hell, he had to leave the town and settle outside west Bengal to earn is living. But still he protests when he sees some thing wrong, whereas his tormentors often boast that if some one dares to protest them his condition will be like him. But I personally feel that they know that they have lost the battle, their only small win is making that guy leave the town, their boasting is bleak and groundless, because they might have called themselves conquerors if that guy had bowed down before them and accepted their corrupted activities without protest.
I have a deep belief in the old saying, that honesty pays. In the long run, it’s the honest people who are happy and satisfied. They may get exploited, bulldozed, hounded, but the amount of satisfaction and inner peace they get is worth the trouble. And I also have started to believe another thing that honest people are most scandalized.
Kingmaker 14 on 16th Jan 2011
13 years ago
Agni Trisha,
ReplyDeleteIt's my 1st visit to ur blog.
I appreciate the way you take wisdom from the happenings around you. I also want to appreciate your friends efforts who is taking a great stand against the evil.
Trisha I can better feel the pain of ur friend for I also have experienced similar type of opposition from the chiefs of my village.
every honest people have to suffer it because the world is full of dishonest people, honest people are minority and rebelling honests are endangered species.
ReplyDeleteits really very sad that you had to go through that hell, i am happy that you are safe.