Childhood

During the journey back home, I was engrossed in my childhood memories. Those beautiful days danced in front of my eyes and a tear almost rolled down my eyes. I felt embarrassed as fellow passengers stared at me and gossiped. Though I stopped thinking on those lines for that time, I couldn’t hold it for long enough. Photographs provide a great flashback of life and I decided to use it as my weapon. I found my old photo albums and past looked like heaven. Every photo of mine had one similarity, my SMILE. It was not because of the usual Cheese before a photograph is taken but rather because of the nature of childhood. There is no doubt that childhood is the golden era of one’s life, but my thoughts went ahead to think why is it so? It is not because that as a child you don’t have work (as your mind constantly keeps learning and every day is truly a new experience), but because no work is taken as burden. To add to it, you are true to yourself. This is one of the precious treasures of childhood. As a child you can laugh at any moment, you can cry anytime, you can fight at any time. Also whatever world thinks of you is immaterial to you. If you try to act in the same way today, you are termed as crazy. This doesn’t allow you to carry out your immature behaviour and you loose the contact with yourself. A child doesn’t detach himself from his self and attains the state of sainthood. No wonder CHILD is given the status of GOD

Give them the space

Though I belong to an area where eating vegetarian food is considered blasphemy, my recent stays outside my home as confronted me with the age-old conversation of being vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The proponents of vegetarian food have the usual argument that taking someone’s life is a crime. If I remember correctly, I was taught in my old-good school days that plants too have lives. Since plants fulfill all the qualifying criteria of being living beings(they grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli and eventually die), so veggies are left biting the dust. I am in no mood to wage a war with veggies, but just presenting my rational view. Does that mean that plants don’t have LIFE ?

Similarly the oppositions of human-cloning, stem cell research often argue that man will be taking the GOD’s throne if such researches are allowed. I fail to understand that if all these things have been done legally on various plants, then why not humans ? Also considering the fact that these researches have been carried to commercial scale for plants. Does that once again mean that plants don’t have life ?

Further taking the argument, we sow seeds, lets the crops grow and then eventually cut them. Does this count as a violent act ? Similar to killing a chicken for delicious meal ? I can present tons of such argument that prove that either plants don’t have life OR who humans have considered them too lowly. Since first conclusion is a scientific fact, we surely have treated plants just as commercial commodities and nothing more than that. I feel that time has come to give them appropiate place they deserve.