The Hindu (Delhi, dt 20 January, 2016) reported ‘Woman stabbed dozen times by her jilted lover’ on front page. This scary yet usual situation in society is manifestation of something very wrong. The society facing such sad state of younger generation has never given a thought on what could be done to improve the situation. We may most of times choose to avoid paying attention and blame the law keepers. But what we need to do is to identify the problem and eradicate the cause. And believe me, we never do that.
The accused every time represents mind giving more importance to material things. Since childhood to any age we collectively give excessive importance to winning. Be it in academics or simply boarding the bus. Never a conscious look is given to this habit eating the peace of mind. It is never learnt that it is okay to fail. How many grownups remember their marks in Math in 5th standard? But am sure all recall the bashing they had from their parents/teachers for less marks.
Why winning is important? It is just a state of mind that will eventually fade away. Failure too is no different. We, hence, must inculcate tuning our mind to realize failure is okay. I am not at all quoting successful persons of society who are a big success after failure according to my WhatsApp chat. I am on the other hand trying to make a basic point that being peaceful as a state of mind is more important than being a winner or loser. Don’t you agree that with peaceful mind the society shall see less of scary news on front page of newspaper?
