Lead Kindly Light!

As a kid, I was very impressed by the poem written by John Henry Newman but today I am not writing about the poem but about something else. Kindness is not just a word or an adjective from a grammar book but a unique human quality. You cannot inherit it but have to develop it and only if you have a heart to feel the pain of those suffered ones. There are many peoples around trying to do something or the other for the destitute, feel proud looking at them that they exists in the same planet where I am living and I am lucky to be part of that. Often feel ashamed because all the time thinking for me, we and us only. Looking at the current situation, agree that it is very difficult to survive if you are totally selfless. Keeping a drop for self cannot be a selfish act but just giving a drop from an ocean is what all about known as act of selfish mind.

Sympathy and kindness are two different things. Sympathy is a mechanical process; it may or may not pain you when looking at others plight and can forget it a moment later. Kindness is the feeling that remains forever, willing to do something for others; it makes you restless until you are able to see the smile and joy on the faces of the needy one.

“Writing big thing but never do a thing for the people around me”, I agree to this point but have a heart to feel it. Pieces of news related to kind gesture shown by the peoples around the world always make me happy and at the same time feel a lump in my throat while reading it.

• When Mumbai flooded poor and poorest tried their best to accommodate the unknown faces in their house, provided them with food and dry clothes.


• When Mumbai bleeds after a series of bomb blast, people from all spheres of life queued at the hospitals to donate blood for the unknown victims.


• A rich man standing at the entrance of a government hospital to ask if anyone need anything and ready to spend every penny he has.


• A woman constable from Kerala gone to give her six golden bangles to get discharged an unknown woman from a hospital, who was denied same by the hospital because she unable to pay the bill. The news go further, when a famous jewelers P. C. Chandra from Kolkata decided to gift the same police woman with six gold bangle for her extraordinary gesture of humanity, its known as chain of humanity.

Philanthropic like Warren Buffet or a Bill Gates are spending billions on peoples who needs it. As I mentioned before, the Indian super rich have never done something that can be referred.

My hometown, Kolkata may not be a hot spot for any foreign tourist, but for only one person it was always a destination for the tourist as well as celebrities from all over world.

I am taking about, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Confused? Sounds very unfamiliar one, yes, I am talking about Mother Teresa. The lady shown the world what is kindness all about is.

So, you see, it does not matter where are you, be it in Kerala or Kolkata or Kawasaki or Kitimat, kindness can be stretch with willingness. Hope, me too able to get some courage and willingness like others to bring smile on those gloomy faces and certainly it will be the most cherished moment to live with and at the end I will think with a million dollar smile – ‘Yes, I did it’.

!!!Kindness is an aura, fragrance and dedication, done quietly, healed millions.!!!