Amidst all this chaos, when people are doing nothing but shouting at each other;

Amidst all this chaos, when people can’t stop themselves from blaming each other;

Amidst all this chaos, when you feel yourself being dragged down, no matter how hard you try to fight the circumstances;

Amidst all this chaos, when you feel scared every time you look outside your window;

And amidst all this chaos, when you hold yourself tight every night hoping that the next sunrise might not be as gloomy as the last living moments of a dying bird,

I hope you don’t forget that things and situations change just like people do,

I hope you don’t forget that it’s never easy to get up and stand straight after being pushed down;

I hope you don’t forget that everyone can fight their monsters, as long as they really want to;

I hope you don’t forget that not all days are as promising as they used to be when you were a child, who used to make friends with little birds and animals;

And most importantly, I hope you never forget that time heals everyone and everything, sooner or later.

While so many things are taking a wrong turn around us, I wonder why most of us are still focusing on things which might not matter in the near future? Why is it so difficult to understand that we are not facing a kind of fight which we need to win individually? Why don’t we understand that if things continue to grow in the same way it is growing right now, even if we survive all of it physically, we might not be able to survive it mentally and emotionally.

I feel that somewhere along the line, most of us forgot how important it is to live a bit more carefully, speak a bit more nicely and treat each other with a bit more kindness. As far as I know, it doesn’t cost us anything to be a good person, but it, surely, will cost us a lot of things if we don’t become one.

Whenever I look around myself and look into the world I live in, all I see is a world of lies; a world where everyone is running after something or the other just to save themselves from falling into the deep pit of helplessness and hopelessness; a world where one’s class and status is considered more important than their heart and soul; a world where people can do anything for power even at a time when that should be the last thing they should be worried about; and a world where the existence of humanity is questioned and proved to be rare among humans; almost everyday.

And this is not the world I imagined I will be living in when I was a child. Even when the elders told me that it’s going to be very cruel, I didn’t believe them then, for I thought, “How can a world which holds so much beauty can be cruel at the same time?” I guess, I was wrong! And now when I think about it, I wonder, how did I believe that, when it was me who used to believe in fairy tales; tales where there are always some bad people or situations, who or which try to suppress the good people. Although those tales always had a happy ending, I don’t think that this world will be able to experience one, considering the path it is walking on right now.

Will we ever be able to live in a world where all the creatures and the Nature live in a perfect harmony? Will we ever be able to experience a world where people actually care about and understand each other regardless of their race, class, caste, colour, gender and religion? Will we ever be able to live in a world where people run after love and respect instead of power and money? Will we ever be able to live in a world where people are genuinely allowed to dream and work hard to fulfill their dreams?

I really want to believe that we will, but then, it’s a long walk. A walk some of us might not be able to complete.

The chaos beyond which it is difficult to look for us, at present, might never end if we decide to care less about what is happening around us and leave it to change all by itself, for better or for worse. It’s true that we don’t have a control over everything but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have a control over anything. We have control, it’s only a matter of time before we realise it.

So, I hope you care about things a little more. I hope you live your life a bit more carefully. I hope you use a bit more kind words. And I hope you treat others the way you want to be treated!