The world is an ordered whole which runs on set social norms
and canons. Everyone is bound to walk on the same road and any deviation is
intolerable. This has always been the main cause of the retardation world has
been facing so long. Free thinkers are suppressed and brains are toned to
believe only on what is the most considered.
There have been many instances in my life where these kinds of free
thoughts were suppressed right from childhood. One of my friends’ little girl
once had a curious idea. She ran to her father to clarify,
“Father, what covers
most of the Earth, land or water?”
“Of course its water dear, Earth has plenty of water than
land”, he replied instantly without wanting a second thought.
“But, father”, she thought for a while and retorted, “how is
that possible, isn’t there land even under the water; without it the water
won’t stay right? Then how come water covers more part than land?”
The father squeezed out his brain to reply logically but
failed and even I had the same amazement when this was presented to me. The
little girl thought beyond her text books and dared to curiously traverse on a
different path and thought differently.
I recall another such
instance from my school days. I had my schooling from a convent school where
the nuns spent hours advising little brats to mold them into the desired
obedient “mama’s child”.
Once one such episode was progressing in our class
where the brat of class was made to stand up and the nun was on her usual
routine. “Listen my child; you have to think more on God. It is not you who is
doing all the naughty work, Satan is working through you. He is influencing you
into making trouble. Don’t you want to be a good boy? Pray to the lord and he
will protect you. Repent on your mistakes dear child and he shall hear you….”
And so on went her preaching. When all her dialogues were said and prayers were
made to God to look after the little lamb, this boy, silent all the while had a
very confused look.
“What bothers you my child? Is the pang of repentance
beginning to annoy you?”
“Sister, Isn’t God powerful than Satan?”, there was an
innocent question made.
“Of course he is my child, why do you ask?”
“Then why doesn’t God kill Satan? If Satan dies then there
will be no trouble in the world”.
The class was silent for a moment and slowly
bursts of suppressed laughter hissed through the air.
“Oh but God can’t kill anyone!”, he exclaimed after a pause.
“Wouldn’t that be a sin? Well in that case he can at least throw Satan in a
prison can’t he? Then he would not have troubled children like me”, he said
with at most innocence. The nun’s face grew pale first and reddened instantly
in anger as the hissings grew into loud laughter.
The boy was innocently on a very logical plane like my
friend’s daughter. They were thinking very reasonably and logically beyond the
set ideas that we live on. It is such a pity that such free thinkers are always
suppressed by the society. When we adults tried to press on to the girl the
very scientific discoveries on Earth, the boy was subjected to a public mockery
and warning when the next PTA meeting was called in the school where the nun
claimed him to be blasphemous.
Such a mockery of free thinkers and innovative brains! We
are all guilty in this aspect trying to propel anyone who dares to deviate from
that path claimed to be right by the majority with scientific proofs to aid us.
This simply effects into the dearth of free thinkers and stagnancy of mankind.
If only we were ready to accept…
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