AIDS

AIDS (1st Dec 2009, 1945 Hrs)

1st December is World AIDS Day! The dreaded disease raises its head only on this particular day every year throughout the world. Funny, how resilient we humans have become, while millions die in various parts of the world. However, today I am writing about a different AIDS, that is so prevalent in the world, yet we have all closed our eyes to let it spread like a plague. This AIDS is much more dangerous than the dreaded incurable disease. You may wonder when you will read how we have allowed such a vicious disease to spread all across the human world, and think…

GREED: Just like the AIDS virus, greed in us has led into such deplorable conditions today, that one is neither ashamed of oneself nor one really cares about its outcome. Yes, greed is ACQUIRED! It is the ‘greed’ that has spread an endemic called chaos in our society. Each one of us wants to become rich at the press of a button, without really doing any hard work. Accumulating wealth by snatching away from poor man’s plate, we don’t even hesitate today to kill to satisfy our greed. It’s the greed that has made sons killing father-mother, father killing son-daughter, brother fighting brother, sister fighting sister, man fighting with man… the end result leads the greedy behind the bars or else towards death that one cannot even save from all the wealth accumulated by snatching away other’s happiness. I often wonder as to why we acquire such a dreaded disease that leads us to fall before our own eyes…

CORRUPTION: The world has become immune to corruption in every sphere of life. Right from birth till death, there is corruption everywhere and one has no option but to pay off… Yes, corruption is IMMUNE! Corrupt leaders, corrupt system, corrupt law & order… the list is endless and the more you think about it, the more vicious the web becomes to hold you in its clutches. In fact, right from the top to the bottom, we have become immune to corruption, so much that even before one wishes to follow the simple procedure, one thinks in advance about getting one’s job by different means. Corruption is the disease that is hard to eradicate and there is no vaccine or else medicine that can challenge the dreaded virus. Wonder of wonders, there is not even a single scientist in the world that is working towards solving this menace.

POWER: Power never constructs but destructs and everyone knows it pretty well. However, deficiency of power also leads to various mayhems and hence every one of us is heading towards power struggle. Be it politicians, government officials, teachers, students, goons, men, women… every one is gunning to be powerful… Yes, power is DEFICIENCY! Deficiency of power destructs in various forms and one who achieves power also destructs to rule the world. However, history has shown how powerful men and kings have ultimately succumbed to lose everything in their power struggle. If you have, you have problems to continue being powerful and if you don’t have, then you will be exploited, threatened and crushed for being powerless.

HATRED: A syndrome that has taken over the human kind with such force that no one, I repeat no one could escape from the clutches of hatred… Yes, hatred is the SYNDROME! However, I have often wondered as to why and how one develops hatred in one’s loving heart? God gave us such a small loving heart and sadly we humans have never really worked on it and that is why there is chaos all over the world, as one old autoricksaw driver once told me. So true that we have never been able to develop more love in this loving heart. However, like a universal syndrome, we have developed hatred to such an extent that no one, I repeat no one is really happy to live in this world.

When you join all these four elements – Greed, Corruption, Power and Hatred – they become more powerful and dreaded and vicious and yes they are incurable like AIDS the disease!