LIVING IS NOT EXISTING

LIVING IS NOT EXISTING
Every day, we wake up in the morning; go about our work in the mundane pursuit of living. In the evening we watch those silly serials or reality shows on news or entertainment channels and go to bed only to wake up in the morning to repeat what we did yesterday. Today turns into yesterday and tomorrow turns into today. Our daily fight for living does not change. This is the condition of a vast majority of 1.2 billion strong population of India and 7 billion population of the world. They live but do not exist because nobody really knows about their existence. They are nameless -faceless creatures on this planet earth.
What then, makes a person visible, existing? You may be a very important person for your near and dear but for the community, you do not exist. People are so busy in their daily fight for survival that other than themselves no body exists. The worst part is the fight for survival is against the members of the very community that does not know even you exist. Imagine the games we play to enrich ourselves at the cost of fellow citizens, the untruths we talk about them, the malice we have for them and the total disregard we have for their existence.
A closer look will reveal that even for our family we do not exist if we are not useful. As we grow older the next generation takes charge of the family and makes decisions. There comes a time when we are more contribute in the decision making process of the family. Living but not existing.
The trick therefore is to stop fighting, stop undue expectations, stop unsolicited advice and become useful and keep contributing as long as one can to stay in existence. The contribution may be as small as helping in the home work of the children in the family, fetching them from school, helping in tit- bit shopping like vegetables etc. The idea is to keep you wanted. On a broader level we have to keep ourselves useful for the community in our own way. The contribution again may be very small like reading books to old in the old age homes, helping the neighborhood poor kids in their studies, helping in the activities of the resident welfare associations etc. The idea again is to keep you wanted.
We exist as long as we are useful to the family and the community.
The important thing is to decide for ourselves if we want to live and exist. No one can decide this for us. Left to others, they would rather wish we do not even live. There will be many such cases of living and existing people around us. Let us share their stories. Who knows it may motivate some of us who are simply living but not existing.