When I was in school, we had a notorious boy in the class. He would comment on everyone, will make them feel bad and would laugh. Along with him laughed others at the subject. People wanted to be in his group and in his good books. I wondered why they wanted to follow him? Should he be liked and the answer was no! But then my friend told me that may they are scared and they are expecting that he would not make fun of them. But did they like him and the answer was no! Love was very far! So the main reason was fear and also, somewhere may be that it would protect them. And then in our Hindi books, I read the story of Dacoit Angulimal. He was a dacoit and used to kill people. Whom so ever he killed, he would cut a finger a put it in the garland he was wearing. He was going to kill Buddha but with Buddhas love, he stopped and eventually became Angulimal. Buddha helped in uplifting a man not only physically but also his soul.I realized love has that power and that is how it shall be.
Everyone has a weakness. Everyone has some problems. Do not make people feel weak. BE their strength. Give them strength. the strength comes with love. When one person is uplifted, he can help many others because this is the way he has learned.
Also, we need to decide. what do we want. Do we want to become a reason for someone’s falling or a reason for someone’s upliftment. Why all this today? Few scars never go away. A few days back, I got a call from someone, who is on anxiety medicines since the age of 17. I asked him, how he developed anxiety at such a tender and carefree age. He told me that he was scared of goingt o school. There was a boy who always bullied him. So he was scared. And at the age of 35, when he met the boy, the boy had no idea, how much damaged he had done to someone. The boy who was a grown up man at that time felt sorry and guilty but he could not reverse it. So we really need to see, where do we want to see ourselves in the future.
Help people with love in feeling better and doing better things. let’s create a loving world together.
