Humanity & brotherhood is still alive!!!

  (Written in November-2008)

 

This story is  a true incident, which is frequently witnessed, everyday, and almost everywhere. Trying to tell each one of us humanity has not yet reached an ultimate end. There is enough of it still left, one only needs to look with those searching eyes.

Boys from across the country and a few from the neighboring  countries  all gather to begin their career in a complete  new place ,where  there are only strange faces, all unknowns ,they then start  gathering  their world, new relations of friendship is born and trust grows between them.

No wonders ,this was also the story at NIT Jamshedpur ,for the year 2008,where students  from across the country had come to frame their future in engineering disciplines ,most of them stepping outside their houses for the first time with unknown fears in mind and also a joy !!...

It was 27^th  November ,2008 only three months since the session had begun ,and there was a  joy in the boys of hostel D- "Rajendra Prasad  Hall Of Residence". Joy, because they all were eagerly waiting for Dinesh chand’s birthday ,the guy who is properly known as ‘D.C no. 17’ the footballer among his batch-mates ,as the watches in the rooms were ticking close to 12:00 am , excitement was increasing ,almost everyone  in the hostel knew the guy was going to turn 18 in next few minutes. This excitement was not because he was someone special, but because in hostels everyone is same and yes still special.

I and my other two roommates Sitanshu and Abhishek were also eagerly staring at the watches, but as the end semester exams were beginning from 1^st so we had books resting before our eyes. As soon as the watch ticked the last second of 27^th Nov. Crowd of boys were outside Dinesh’s  room to wish him happy birthday ,Sitanshu my roommate too ran to wish Dinesh but he was on his mobile someone was wishing him, and in the crowd nothing was clearly audible ,sitanshu was already late in wishing so he went into dinesh’s room ran out and shouted ”Happy Birthday Dinesh,,……

Troubled and fed up of  pleading to keep quite so that he could listen clearly on phone dinesh blasted off in anger on sitanshu the one standing in front of him as he turned. This shook sitanshu who was left out of words  ,his joy melted ,his emotions squeezed, his self respect hurt. He left the room and as if lost everything he went to his room and locked it from inside.

By the time DC’s birthday cake was all well placed in the common room, and full hostel was waiting to blow the candles and cut the cake. I knew nothing about what had happened b/w sitanshu and DC ,but when I saw sitanshu running to room I got something was wrong, Dinesh came running to me and told me the complete story he was extremely regretful everyone wanted DC to cut the cake .But he was now feeling guilty sitanshu was locked inside. DC refused to cut the cake without sitanshu .He and I insisted and knocked the door repeatedly but no response ,I peeped into the window and found a boy who trying to console himself ,because his wall of trust was shaken ,at that very instance I realized what a love and trust we all develop among ourselves that single hurt to that trust shakes our senses and make us feel  lonely back again like the first day when we entered here when we were from Uttrakhand ,when we were from U.P.,when we were from Rajasthan ,Andra Pradesh ,kerala Jharkhand or Srilanka.    

But now we are from no other place but from family of NIT Jamshedpur. In hostel dinesh apologized and then every one together celebrated DC ‘s B’Day. But do we trust people the same way outside also?

Is’nt this very small incident  enough  to make the society realize that the world is not completely emotionless. Feelings are not completely dead ,humanity is still alive we only need to discover it and grow it. We need to realize that trust is what link the mankind, we should respect other’s feeling and never hurt it, knowingly or unknowingly .

We need to forget all our differences, society can tie up like the boys in the hostel only when people forget their religion, caste ,creed, colour, sex, standard, ego   or any other difference and then only we can live in a world of love and trust where people would care for the unknown .

otherwise we are already in a world where we are alone in a crowd ,where no one is ours ,no one cares for us in the crowd of a billion lord I am alone!!........................ 

Sitanshu After he came out of the locked room Expression Speak everything :)

by yash parashar

nit Jamshedpur(1^st year student)