How fair are we in this game of life?

“Life is a game, play it”, someone has rightly told. But its not just playing that is important but how fair are we in that game? Winning is something that every one of us wants to cherish but doing our best is the ultimate, no matter whether we win it or lose it. The ultimate thing that I am talking about is how true we are to our conscious.

        Recently I made a trip to India for my brother's marriage. That thought of going to India brings so much of happiness, a feeling that we are going to go to our own place, the place where I was born, brought up, studied, learned every aspect of life, a place which taught me to be humble, a place which taught me my culture, traditions and everything whatever I am right now. When all these thoughts were flowing through my mind my happiness knew no bounds on the day of our travel. The tiredness of 20hrs of journey was gone after seeing those beautiful smiles of our parents who were anxiously waiting since 3 months for this day. I can't express in words about their happiness after seeing us. Right from the day we were born and till this very day they never failed to think about our happiness in every single way sacrificing many things which they well deserved just to give us a wonderful life. My dad used to say "That umbilical cord bond is a miracle which GOD has given to every human being". How true…!!! Then a thought provoking thought aroused in my mind. It sounded like someone patted me and asked me this question? Don't you think that you are behaving selfishly staying far away from them, leaving your own country and people? How fair it is to make them wait for years and years at this age to just see you for one or two weeks? After seeing so many anxious parents waiting for their loved ones, this thought grew even stronger. There were some parents who are in wheel chairs but still bearing all that pain just for you. May be that pain is nothing compared to the happiness they want to give us. Even at this stage of life they are ready to take all the pains to make us happy. Tears rolled in my eyes after seeing all this. Those were not the tears of happiness, nope not at all. Those tears are for the pain and the suffering they are undergoing at this age. It is always they who took all the pains, that day when we were just 1 or 2 months old they happily smiled when we were kicking them with our hand and legs and even this day they are smiling when we are kicking them in their hearts and playing with their feelings. The difference being, that day they smiled thinking about our innocence and this day they are smiling might be thinking about our ignorance towards life. That passion to win and conquer this world (may be for status, money etc.) doesn’t matter whether someone else is getting hurt is making us deaf, dumb and don’t know what to call this deadly disease. Those happy days of family get-togethers, mom’s wonderful dishes, playing games with cousins, teasing aunts with their typical gossips, those coffee sips in the mornings reading the day’s news paper, evening movie shows with friends…this is going to be a never ending list, don’t know why are we trying to redefine life where as life’s real meaning lies in these small happy moments which we spend with our loved ones. This is not just my thought but many of us might be going through the same situation. Why are we trying to wear a mask of happiness seeing this success which in true sense is not. I tried to console myself with a good answer but not able to. May be we are trying to keep our loved ones more happy with all the worldly comforts, may be we are trying to relieve them from the burdens they carried till now. Or sometimes we fall short of words to answer…..may be this question is one among them.
"It doesn't matter how fast you move ahead in life, But what matters is the road on which yoy move ahead. On the road of life be true to others. More importantly be true to yourself."