Living an unconventional life

Thanks to God, each one of us is born with unlimited opportunity. He brings us into the world as cute little babies and then like a proud mother waits for us to grow up and succeed in life. To prevent boredom and to make the earth and interesting place, he made each of us different. Unlike the Brinjals (Aubergines) and the Potatoes!!! God was of the view that in creating us the way he did (different from each other) he was gifting mankind with an immense potential for greatness. Each life is a unique life with infinite possibilities. How exciting!

But it is a very disappointing job being God! Because no body wants to lead a different life. There are no takers for his potential.Generations after generations, we want to live life the same. Spend precious minutes of god gifted life on meaningless chores - playing, studying, eating , sleeping, fighting, falling in love, falling out of love, making money, loosing money, being happy, being unhappy, marrying, divorcing, having children, not having children and then death.

Not that there weren't those who dared to differ. They too were children of God. Of whom he is immensely proud. Jesus Christ, Lord Buddha, Mother Teresa...... a life of compassion........yes, they choose a different path. The unconventional path.....so they were shunned and hurt and insulted...but they continued...because it was the path of God. It was the path of his glory.

Do not condemn and ridicule those who want to live an unconventional life. They are only fulfilling god's wish. Using some of his gift- the potential to be unique.

The naked man

He walked on the road, head held high about 45 years of age. Thin body, thin hands and legs, White hair and beard. Deep set eyes in a shrunk face.....Both his palms tightly held together, trying to cover his private parts. On a chill winter morning, on the smog covered roads of Mumbai I saw this man walking......stark naked! He was completely oblivious to the crowd around him, not acknowledging the fact that he was walking naked on a busy by lane of Mumbai. The crowd around him too was oblivious to him. People walked past him as if he was invisible. They were all rushing somewhere...The naked man did not care about the crowd on the road. The people on the road did not bother about the naked man. For their conscience, he was invisible. I was disturbed by that sight. Still thinking......Who should be ashamed? The naked man on the road or all of us called 'the society'? He may be a destitute who could not afford to buy new clothes or he may be mentally ill and so has shed his clothes. Some months back, a perfectly normal married young women walked the streets of Gujarat in her undergarments. She too walked with her head held high, completely oblivious of the crowd around her? Who went naked? The women or the society of which she is a part? We are all living in a society which has become naked. It has shed all its clothes. The fabric of care, compassion, concern, responsibility for its fellow members....