Friday, 3 August 2012

The story of polarized generation



Once upon a time, there was a farm. A mineral rich farm gained by a group of farmers after a struggle. After the extreme weather ended and the perfect weather to cultivate the farm came, one of the oldest most sincere of the farm owners died. After the death, the other farmers decided to cultivate the farm in their own unique way. They decided to use their individual skills irrespective of others, and so the work begun. One after the other farmers came up with different seeds.



It was decided that 3 types of seeds will be sought. One ‘educated’, other ‘uneducated’ and the third being ‘mix breed’.
 At that time, the three seeds did not show much difference. So the cultivation began, the land was sloughed with much diligence, hard work and such an effort that foreign farmers took part too. Imported techniques were applied, latest machinery was imported and great minds worked. Therefore, being done with sowing, farmers waited for them to get a life. As time passed, the seedlings started to bloom and burst. As the plants started to grow so does their traits, habits, problems and fruits.
The educated plants grew more rapidly, followed by mix breed and at last came the uneducated ones. When young, all three of them played together, talked much and helped each other’s deficiencies, as it didn’t seemed much difference among them.
Once they were playing and the other two classes decided that they too would learn educated traits for their rapid growth and strength of farm. So that they all will be of same color and type with no little difference and farm will look beautiful. They shared it with their educated friends and they agreed to undertake this task.
Just as they were going to start the work of getting enlightened, the weather changed and educated class got a disease. The disease was ‘fear’. Every educated individual felt fear whenever he/she thought of transferring their traits of goodness to lower classes
gotcha!! The educated ones who were compassionate before and were ready to share the common good suddenly considered the other classes lower. With this disease of fear, the educated class started closing in their boundaries into a separate class and avoided interaction with its friends. A dilemma caught hold of that if they will interact they too would get their inferior traits instead of treating them with their own.
The other two classes watching this, felt deprived and due to lose of friendship caught a disease. This disease being ‘hopelessness’ some of the plants of the two classes did struggle to fight their disease off by starting to learn on their own but few were able to accomplish it.
Fortunately, the ones who strived their way learnt the positive traits of both types. This mostly comprised ‘mix breed’ and called as ‘middle class’.
Having both the positive traits of hope and knowledge, the middle class retained that beauty of farm. They were both compassionate towards lower class and adaptive to learning with upper class. Neither they feared of stereotypes as upper class does nor were they hopeless.
As seasons changed, the upper class’ disease grew rapidly too as they grew rapidly.
Fear bought with it, its different kinds.
Fear of awakening their conscience that they ought to work for common good of farm.
Fear of demonstrating due criticism to what wrong was inflicted on farm and much more. Ultimately, this gave rise to ignorance. The upper class gradually became ignorant, ignorant of current situation of farm, ignorant to what blasphemy came upon lower class.
Ignorant to fight off their own disease. Instead of fighting they got satisfied and accepted the disease as the part of their lives.
Ignorant to fight with traitors of their farm, and it was important since they were the only healthy grownups to save and others were still developing. At last, this ignorance changed to hatred. The upper class started hating the other classes especially the middle class, because middle class’ struggle was a constant reminder to upper class’ ignorance and threat to their conscience.
They make them fearful and realize that they too were a part of farm as before and that they should at least try to fight their disease for the sake of farm. This made middle class go shatter and they started to get scatter in both classes. Many of them moved to upper class and others fell back to hopelessness. Consequently, the only good of farm started disappearing.
The polarization of classes increased, and everyone got concentrated in their own classes. Neighboring farms also started disrespecting the farm but they wanted to help, but how?
During all this, there stood a hidden handful of plants and watched all this happening and reflected the remedy in their own way.
There was intellectual who left the farm with ‘farm saving theories’, musician who sung hopeful songs, artist who painted it colorful truth, poet who uttered a wakening piece, dancer who danced the melody of revival.
And the most adorably, the teacher who stood there delivering the positivity and knowledge that they needed at first place, and he did it no matter what it takes to be

A happy and not-so-happy ending

Moral: You don’t always reap what you sow, sometimes we need to fight and work the way out!


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