Give it a thought
A nine year old boy is killed in the recent serial blasts in order to help two people who according to him had accidentally dropped their packet. Did morals take his life? If he had not paid attention to it, his life might have been saved..
RECALL YOU were a kid in 5th grade. I said 5th grade because that is the age where one starts understanding things around him. There is a thick line drawn at that time in the Moral Science class as to what is good and what is bad. He starts understanding those things and grabs them. Thereafter he starts implementing on it. Yet there is still a major childishness as everything beyond his vision and sight is a fantasy and hence he starts questioning them.
So if you could recall, the things that were taught to us at that time were help the poor and the needy, do not talk to strangers, wake up early in the morning, respect elders and be truthful and do not steal things and help people whenever they need them.
Now the thing is, are all these morals relevant in today’s time? For reference I would like to recall the latest incident when entire Delhi was shocked by the serial blasts. The one bomb blast among the many in the capital had one thing different. On September 28, a nine-year-old boy, was killed on the spot as he innocently picked up a black polythene bag containing a Tiffin box bomb, as it exploded in his face. If he wasn’t taught moral values of helping people on streets who by chance (read deliberately) dropped a bomb near him.
At the end of the day, it is our honourable ministers asking people to maintain peace and calm in the face of this adversity. The meeting to beef up security immediately lands on the first seat. But as some time passes, things seem to be done with a cold shoulder. Why can’t our system stand boldly on issues like this? Besides what do they think we should teach children as in moral values? Should we start teaching them what the real world is like? Should we fill them with so many negatives ideas about the world that they make their own life negative? Should we tell them that, ’sorry kid, learn a different lesson because the morals that you had been taught, is no longer valid in the world today’. Morals seem to be a decayed history today as the child had to pay for it by giving his life.
So if you could recall, the things that were taught to us at that time were help the poor and the needy, do not talk to strangers, wake up early in the morning, respect elders and be truthful and do not steal things and help people whenever they need them.
Now the thing is, are all these morals relevant in today’s time? For reference I would like to recall the latest incident when entire Delhi was shocked by the serial blasts. The one bomb blast among the many in the capital had one thing different. On September 28, a nine-year-old boy, was killed on the spot as he innocently picked up a black polythene bag containing a Tiffin box bomb, as it exploded in his face. If he wasn’t taught moral values of helping people on streets who by chance (read deliberately) dropped a bomb near him.
At the end of the day, it is our honourable ministers asking people to maintain peace and calm in the face of this adversity. The meeting to beef up security immediately lands on the first seat. But as some time passes, things seem to be done with a cold shoulder. Why can’t our system stand boldly on issues like this? Besides what do they think we should teach children as in moral values? Should we start teaching them what the real world is like? Should we fill them with so many negatives ideas about the world that they make their own life negative? Should we tell them that, ’sorry kid, learn a different lesson because the morals that you had been taught, is no longer valid in the world today’. Morals seem to be a decayed history today as the child had to pay for it by giving his life.
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