Post Blasts, a blasting MIND

So there is another serial blast in Bombay. And suddenly everyone seems so worried about everyone else. Good thing. Appreciate it. BUT what I fail to understand or accept is that, when everything is fine, life is normal, you don’t feel the same for others.

Why is it that, something has to terribly go wrong for YOU to value people? What kind of behavior is this? Why are you so empathetic towards other on the days of blasts, floods?? Or why are you so bothered about someone just in their hard times?

If you don’t care about someone genuinely, whether or not they are okay on a day like today or any other day for that matter, shouldn’t matter to you at all. And what is with this entire SPIRIT OF MUMBAI?? Aren’t you human enough to help someone who is dying? Who is bleeding all their blood out? Then where does this “spirit of Mumbai” come from? It is just BEING HUMAN, get out of the fancy thought bubbles people, its overestimating what you do(which is very little, anyway).

If you aren’t nice to others normally, you don’t need to bother about them on an unfortunate day and pretend to be a nice person, because honestly and personally speaking, i’d like a person whos honest and careless, than a person who gives a damn totally but acts all worked up for me. I am not a 5 year old child to get carried away with your 5 minute sweet talk.

Do not forget that at the end we have MORE normal days than bad. If you did your part of being a good person, someone that is helpful and thoughtful towards others on regular days, made someone smile just about anyone, EVERYDAY. You’d be a gem for me, i’d like to hold on to, for lifetime. But how many of this type EXIST? I don’t claim to be one of them but i surely DO NOT FAKE being bothered.

I understood one thing about myself today, each time something like this happens, a sense of fear of losing someone you are deeply attached to, I begin to think how i take them for granted and how unpredictable life is, you don’t know who will be alive tomorrow and the funny thing is, days like today make me a better person and i choose my words carefully and i handle my relations with utmost care. But again what I am trying to convey is that WHY CANT everyone feel this way? Why can everyone be honest about what they feel, express it freely, be it negative or positive but just HONEST. Be better people and make this shithole of a place that we’re living in, a place that is worthwhile.


14th july 2011, 2:15 AM

P.s- This note helps me vent my fears and anxiety (courtesy the Blasts.)