Life Has Much More ....

A few days back, the newspaper's headlines really disturbed me when I read about the incident that happened at one of Delhi's most prestigious universities, J.N.U. as we call it. A guy from the School of Languages had brutally attacked one of his classmates (a good friend ) and committed suicide by consuming a lethal chemical and slitting his own throat!
I know its not the first time that we have heard about an act of crime in a university campus but this kind of horrifying, brutal and vehement acts are still rare. It gets hard to put such acts of crime on the list of other hundreds of crimes reported everyday when the people involved are all well educated and supposedly mature and responsible individuals.

If the young generation, specially the educated lot, which we look up to for bringing all the necessary changes in our society, behave in such an immature and irresponsible manner then what hope do we have of creating a powerful, prosperous and peaceful nation. It is this very lot of young, educated, enthusiastic generation that can help to clean the political filth in our country that we hear about and discuss everyday. It is this generation that have the power of bringing about a change in the evil systems of the society. But unfortunately it is this very lot that succumbs to its fake egos, anger, lust and greed.

How can we let our emotions take control of our actions to an extend that we completely forget about its impact on the lives of others associated with us. Though it is natural to feel anger and frustration when you are betrayed, deserted or cheated  by someone, but resorting to criminal activities to take a revenge on someone is not an answer. An educated mind should be free of such weaknesses as these and should be groomed in such a manner so it can enable us to deal with all the difficult situations in our lives rationally and sanely.

The most shocking part of the whole news for me was the fact reported that the boy was fully equipped with three or four different kinds of weapon to make sure that his intentions are carried out without fail.
Such a planning and preparations to get himself equipped with all those lethal weapons must have taken a few days and that makes it clear that it was not a case of sudden rage and anger. The boy must have pictured the whole incident in is mind many a times before he actually did it and it is shocking and scary that the horror and gruesomeness of the act did not divert him from actually doing it.

I am not being judgmental about the boy, neither I have any idea what exactly went wrong between those two people that prompted this crime, all I want to say is that whatever he did must not have got any solution to any problem. It only ended one good life and shattered the other. Why is it so that when we start giving importance to one aspect of our life we forget the importance of our life in itself?

How can anything in life get bigger than the life itself? And if it has to be that way for you.....let it be some noble cause, something that is beneficial to at least one single soul on this earth to take a higher place than your life itself.