Expecting Goodness!

Expecting Goodness is like waiting for the right train on the wrong platform! The train is right and it’s there right in front of you and moreover you have the ticket, but still you would miss it!

Let me tell this as a story…

Once upon a time when the world was still green and the tallest buildings were the ones with single roofs and the villages had more cattle than men; there was a small village which had the backyard of its last house as the densest forest.

If you can take a moment and try to imagine the village, it would be a real treat to your imagination. A peaceful small village having few huts, with adjoining barns bigger than the huts, scattered. To add the beauty it had a cute little garden in front of a small temple at the center of the village. The water from the wells of that village was sweeter than the modern sugar these days. There are many other beautiful things about that village but I leave all that to your imagination this Sunday.

Adjoining the village was a large pasture separating it from the forest. All the cattle from the village used to go there and graze till they got bored of grazing. Now strange but true, the grass on that pasture could talk among themselves and every morning they would wake up praying the Almighty to spare them alive from the cattle. They sat there the whole day expecting goodness from the cattle. Can you imagine the cattle, known for being the most peaceful animals, had scared the grass to their death and even kept killing them.

One day, suddenly from nowhere, came running a huge tiger and killed a cow and pulled it off into the forest where, well you know, it had a feast. The cattle, those which were still alive, were so scared seeing all that fierce attack and blood flow and all that they even stopped getting out of their barns. They just refused moving out of that protection.

The grass waited for few days and then celebrated that finally the goodness was blessed on them (via tiger). While on the other side the cattle, which also could talk among themselves, strange but true, were by now growing hungry and started praying to the Almighty for some goodness from the tiger that had scared them to death.

One day, as the summer came in, the only pond in the forest dried with only few drops of water left in it and the tiger decided to leave that forest and it moved on to a different forest. The cattle were back on the pasture and happy thinking that their prayers were answered with lots of goodness (via draught). While on the other side, the villagers started getting worried as the water levels in their wells kept going down. Let us leave the villagers to do something about that and move on with the article.

The only thing that I wanted to tell was…

It’s not like there is no goodness in the world. There is lot of goodness, kindness, sweetness floating around us. The problem is, we concentrate so much on that and we keep on expecting goodness from one source that we end up missing enjoy the real goodness when we are blessed with it.

It is exactly like keeping only one window of the house open and expecting all the air to flow in from that. You have to keep all the windows open and the fresh air can blow in from any window at any moment. Goodness is also same, it can flow in and kiss you any moment, any place, and just from anywhere.

So the best thing to do is, just keep doing goodness and spreading kindness and one fine day you will get it back, the time when you need it, not at the time when you want it!

Keep spreading goodness… This world needs more of it…

Vishal...

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