Disillusionment and faith

A few facts were brought to my notice that I never in my wildest imagination could think possible...


9/11 terror attacks conspiracy theory - I even checked this out on the internet...there is a movie , over 2 hours long, called Zeitgeist, which gives a very convincing account of the so called 9/11 conspiracy theory. I have not yet seen the movie but have been told it is compelling - This film have some amazing footage of the crash sites - both at the Pentagon and of united 93 - on which there does not appear to be any evidence of a plane being involved in the crashes.

This fuels speculations... this is not a place to discuss this complicated issue... but I am disillusioned, what state would do such an act to its own people...With the terror attacks in Mumbai, tongues are wagging that some forces in India tried to do some thing akin to the terror attacks in US for their own ulterior motives...this had left me disillusioned all of Wednesday...I kept pondering on the issues all day with a spillover of the same into Thursday...I kept thinking what is the point of writing about it when everything is a conspiracy!!!...I had decided not to write anything on this issue going forth...when it dawned on me that tongues wag...they have in the past,they are wagging now and they always will in the future too...It is not in our control to stop them...what is in our power is to ignore them and follow our purpose...I can think of two stories that my mother told me when I was little, they are very relevant to this scenario...let me recount them for your benefit...

Once upon a time a colony of frogs lived in a large well, as it happened one summer was exceptionally hot and the water in the well began to dry and the frogs decided to leave the well and look for an alterntive place to live. They began climbing to the top of the well, no matter what they did they began slipping back to the well because of the slimy walls...some of them managed to climb out but others began losing hope after numerous failed attempts and quit and consigned themselves to a slow death. Finally a time came when all the frogs except one gave up. The lone frog kept trying, inspite of his fellow frogs telling him to quit, the more they told him to quit the harder he tried to get to the top, finally after one tremendous burst of energy, he made it to the top!!!...when someone asked the frog why he continued to climb up when all were advising him to stop... it dawned on the astonished group that the frog was deaf...when he saw the people talking to him asking him to stop he thought they were actually encouraging him to keep climbing and thus was able to make it to the top!!!!

The second story....
Once a farmers donkey fell into a deep well, the well did not have any water and the farmer did not have money to hire people to pull the donkey out. So, he decided to bury the donkey alive by filling up the well with mud. He called the villagers and asked them to help him to fill the well. The work began, at first the donkey cried piteously when he realised what the farmer and villagers were doing. But then it became quite, and the farmer was surprised to see that as more the mud was thrown on top of the donkey, the donkey calmly shook it off his back and climbed on top of the collected mud...thus climbing higher towards the rim of the well and freedom....finally the well was filled in and the donkey joyously jumped out and walked free...

The reason why I have narrated the two stories in to jut make a point that just as the frog in the story did not listen to the naysayers we must not listen to negative influences and believe in ourselves and rise in life like the donkey, using the dirt or whatever is thrown at us in a positive way...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...so my fellow Indians...step forward...let us begin our journey towards a better India...