Jail

What is your definition of a jail? Let’s give an example to help you – Consider a situation:
There is a person in a room closed from all sides. He is not allowed to go anywhere…Don’t jump to the answer of saying that this is a jail. Let me complete my say. So, this person is given all sorts of facilities – You can say, whatever he demands – A.C., T.V., refrigerator, clothes, delicious food, jewellery, money and anything for that matter. Would you still call it a jail? Just think…and if you are still prompted to give the answer ‘Yes’ then think as to why you say so. It’s because that person has everything that he desires, the only problem is that he is not allowed to go out, to meet people, to interact, to see this world, to know the latest happenings, and to contribute something that would make a difference to others. And mind you, all of us would give the same answer - yes because of the above mentioned reason.

Whenever we are asked as to what we desire, we always say that we want a lot of money so that we may be happy – not saying that desire for money is bad. Even I want lots and lots of money, and if money can buy all those things which make us feel comfortable than why nor desire money? The point that I wish to emphasize is that in our hearts we all desire to be happy and we all know, yes we all know that this happiness comes from freedom because none of us can live in a jail…and jail according to you is an enclosure – it might have all the riches of life that you desire but it is an enclosed entity with zero interaction………so my dear friends we all find peace in the company of others. We won’t be happy with lots of gold if there is nobody to watch us, a person might keep saying that he lives for himself but right now I can prove that the worst of people, even the most selfish and self-centered people can’t live in the absence of others.

But we are all running after this jail. This jail is costly, yet we want it. Freedom is free yet we don’t realize its importance. You might find all this sugession-giving a lot boring and repetitive……….a lot of people might have lectured you many times on this before……then OK, please don’t torture yourself with my thoughts, just read that 1st example once more and see if your answer is YES. If it’s yes than I am sorry but you agree fully with my thoughts. If we are living a day when we have not explored something new that will last in our memories forever, if we have not met a new person, if we have not given something to others – a poem, a picture, a gift, or maybe even food to eat - in short if we have not done even a single small thing on a day that will cause a permanent change to this world then we have spent that day in isolation i.e. in a jail. If that day is deleted it won’t impact the world, then what’s the use of living such a day. Here we might say that we never spend our day in such a manner, but friends, forget days, some of us are heading towards spending their entire lives in such jails. If carefully analysed you will find that we have spent many days doing nothing worthwhile, then it was as good as being in a jail - and I hope I don’t need to explain how horrible it is to live in a jail!! So guys and gals wake up! Let’s not be wasters – This is not an advice from your parents who tell this sentence to you time and again to work and be something. This is an advice from a waster like you who thinks that contributing something to this world can give much more enjoyment than anything else. So travel, play, enjoy or just talk to new people but just do something new day after day so that at the end of the day you are satisfied and can confidently look at yourself in the mirror in the eyes.