Ever wondered what will happen to your name when u die? what will you leave behind? whatever you do leave behind, will it be kept the way you wldve kept it? yes everyone wonders that. i do too...
but reality check comes in and slaps u right in your face!
i had the honor of visiting the great Lahore fort yesterday . what amazed me was how incapable our country is at preserving and maintaining its heritage! its applaudable..seriously.
suppose.. that you are a billionaire! no seriously. you spend billions of rupees to build a place where you live with such elegance and sophistication that its unimaginable! and you build it with love and get the best of things...the most expensive things on the planet. and then you die!
you just leave it behind for your family and they leave it behind for their family and then it goes public... for everyone to see the beauty and grace and exceptional architecture!
what happens next is that....people dont give a damn! they just scribble on ur expensive walls made out of mosaics...they break your walls, they throw juice cartons and toffee wrappers in your fountains!
what would u feel like? honestly if i were you...i would come out of my grave and stab them!
that is how shah jehan feels! seriously.
i was disgusted by how little people cared for their heritage and how our goverment officials take budgets and fills up their pockets!
Another very interesting thing i witnessed was that there was a gurdwara of sikhs and a mosque behind it. It made me wonder that in those days people lived normally.
i mean the muslims prayed the sikhs went to their gurdwara. there were no fights, no bomb blasts, no craziness....peace!
today, we have the height of intolerance! muslims cant live peacefully among themselves talk about other religions!
those who are tolerant and normal are pushed to the back by those who have no regard for other religions. we have a situation here. we need to address it. how?
visitors must be in an illlusion tht they are born wd a right to b as famous as shah jehan! decaying is another reality....no moments can b preservd..not evn with snapshots...u surely die with ur name as u wr born wd1
ReplyDeletewe have ovr tym becum souless creatures with random tasks more imp thn practicng basics of morality! in a race of liberalising we have modified ourselves so much so we breath in and breath out in a calculated way...none of us for sure will take the iniatv to collect n dispose the scatterd wrappers..cz its nt our duty u c ... a few thngs belong to us bt we dont own thm
well said berry, but the point is that is our awaam so uneducated ..? there were expressions of love on the walls of the FORT!
ReplyDeletei mean wts the whole point!!! we come alone and die alone...as shakespeare said... whats in a name?
name dies wth our body...only soul remains.
we have indeed becum careless ...we have lost the true essence of humanity...
we were supposed to be civilized...whn we lose the basics we r nuthn but animals!