SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST!

 Darwin had put it right, only the fittest of the species survive...

          This simply raised a bigger question in my ever inquisitive head, "What about living?" Most people may not even demarcate leave alone awareness, the difference between living and surviving. I was looking forward to meet atleast one person who really lives, most of us would say "I live!", but the question is how much percentage of your life do you live?

        And then a visit to the Red Cross society's home for disabled came as a blessing. An experience that touched me deep into my honed civilized soul. According to major global apprehensions, these people are not fit enough to survive, they are anomalies and singularities in the equations of nature, but they are living life and they are living each moment of it. They are simply living it 100%. We all celebrate birthdays and there are many of us who get disgustingly too excited even on others' birthdays, many a times the heights of such hypocracy drives a lot of like minded people to withdraw into their own shells. But, for the first time I had seen a glorious sparkle in the eyes of a fellow human being who was entitled to a wheel chair for life, a smile of gratitude and the innocence of making a wish before cutting the cake. Though most of them weren't in a situation to sing a birthday song, they just made a sincere effort to do it. It was such a beautiful experience to see and feel the love among those people.

        This whole experience kept me wondering over various questions for almost two weeks now, and it still grips the consciousness tight enough. A realization dawns that many a times we are simply living surviving the life of an escort, "how true are we to our own emotions?". Seeing a bunch of challenged people with such a high quality of internal purity has simply left me mesmerized at the amazing laws of nature.