Sowing the seeds of love.

Each and every day passing away teaches us a number of lessons, and the wise people get maximum benefits from these ongoing momentum's of life lessons. Every person has the capacity to trigger positive and negative changes in their daily lives.  Life is full of surprises, as it is not the bed of roses, but it is the amalgam of positive and negative experiences.  People make societies, and hence societies transform them in to different nations with different beliefs, values, and practices. Each and every one has its own area of practice, and they are comfortable in their specific zones. Nationhood, ethnicities, religion, are some of the main driving forces that have shaped the overall worldly societal behaviors. The fragment of any society gets reflection due to its beliefs, practices, and values. When nation states mounted on the map of the world, the overall behaviors of the people were also affected. The love for nation, national identities, and other inter linked national beliefs grew stronger. Making it more simple for all of you, as some times I think that there is a point to ponder too when we think about our self as a nation. I think that people gave their precious lives for their country, for their flag, founder, boundary, national interests, for their people, etc.  And while thinking on these lines, I become so much energetic and patriotic, that sometimes I wonder that I can even face any calamity manfully. In the case of India and Pakistan  such feelings are dominant on the both sides, as I think both the nations have played a key role in nourishing haterdness among their people. I will not pin point anybody else, but I will carry on by sharing my experiences. Right from the school days we get bombarded by different facts and figures that help in rooting up our haterdness. Right from the beginning we were quite updated that our enemy is “India”, and this bombardment carried on till our college days. Yes I admit that such feelings prevailed with me, as I was only seeing the one side of picture. The other side of picture was not shown to me in the past and as a result I was totally alien to other positive things that we can nourish in our selves. During my university days, things started to change and with the guidance of good teachers I was able to identify a soft power in myself too. This spark of soft power was quite strong as compared to the negative power, which we were getting since very long. With my commitment and zeal I tried my best to discover the avenues of growth and prosperity that will lead me to inner peace. In quest to know more about the partition I started asking my elders about their experiences before partition. And most of the time it happened, that whenever they told their life experiences they start weeping. Their love for every one living there before partition was still so fresh and over whelming that my heart melted all the time. Everyone was living in peace, attending each other’s festivals, roaming around together, sharing the good times and the hardships all together.

Those times were so beautiful that the hearts were clean, and the feelings were pure.  I am not referring to any specific example, but a series of examples that I came across after interviewing.  I am sharing all these examples with all of you, so that you can portray a clear picture on your mind. After partition things changed too rapidly, on both sides. The walls of partition divided a house and its people. The wall grew higher and higher with the passage of time. The feeling of love, harmony, coordination, were seen no where around, as only haterdness prevailed in the situation.  Whenever I sit with my grandfather, and discuss all these happenings, he repeatedly remembers his teacher “ Nihal Chand” and tears start to flow from his eyes. While writing these lines, my eyes are becoming too much watery and my hands have stopped writing. I want to give myself a little pause, and then move further. After taking some long breaths, I gathered my energy again so that I can share what I want to with all of you. My grandfather told me that after partition my teacher “Nihal Chand” went to India. And after he went away our primary school in the village became too much desolate. After some time my grandfather started to receive letters from his teacher, inquiring about his colleagues, friends, and the village itself. One day my grandfather received a letter from his teacher, and he told me that when I read that letter I kissed it and saved it with me. In this letter his teacher “Nihal Chand” requested him to send him the soil of the village. He wanted to keep it with himself, as he said one day that this soil is like mother to me. It gave me love, strength, and prosperity, and I need its fragrance around me for the whole of my life. This was the love and the bond of this love was too strong. Now it’s important that we must revive such patterns, and pave a path for a better tomorrow.  It’s important to build bridges of love and harmony instead of building the walls of haterdness. I want to render my life for the prosperity of peace and harmony among the both nations. I want to become the agent of change, so that we can help in securing the future of our coming generations. It was a lucky day for me when I came across the news that I got selected for the building peace project 2014. I was so excited, and over the moon. Truly speaking I was not aware about “Red Elephant Foundation”, and when I came across it I got attracted. This is a great start to mobilize the youth of both the sides, so that they can share their problems and issues with each other. This platform will also help us to solve our different pressing issues, and make ourselves clear.

I am too happy that my partner from the other side is also very loving, cooperative, and kind hearted. I received the news that I am selected for this programme, and soon I will be assigned a partner. After that my mind was inter mingling here and there, and I was too much excited that this is a full surprise package, as I am about to get a colleague from India. And finally the day came; Ishan Zahoor from Delhi was assigned as my group partner. The first conversation we had was full of positive experiences, and we started to develop a better liaison with one another. Hundreds of questions were roaming here and there around me, and I was trying to ask each and every thing from Ishan brother. On the other hand he was too cooperative, and cool minded guy, as he shared his point of view properly and cleared certain ambiguities during the first conversation. The overall programme is full of energy and it’s our duty to streamline this positive energy in the right direction. No matter how long, how high the wall is standing between us, but we will shake our hands together, will bond our selves together, and will peep in to ourselves with love and affection.

This is the first time; I am writing for any blog. I tried my best to share the true feelings of my inner persona, and this journey of love peace and sincerity will go on.