Have you ever read about a Japanese dog ‘Hachiko’. It’s known for
his passionate faith and love towards his master. He had been taken as a pet by
an agricultural professor and their daily routine was to greet the master in
the railway station where he left for his work. The dog would wait till evening
and took the master back home. This was happening for a year and one day the
master didn’t return and the dog was given away to other person. But the dog
escaped from them and came to the railway station and waited for him for nine
years and died at the same place. I often wonder how this entire world is
being driven without any pause. Everyone believes in some spirit that takes
their life along a predetermined path. The spirit may be god, money, power,
etc, which rule this world according to ones belief. But for me, the spirit is
love. Can anyone define love in a sentence, or phrase, or
paragraph?
Can it be defined as an emotion of strong affection towards
something or someone? What does this strong affection make a person to do? Only
the love towards the master made the dog to wait for nine years for a
non-returning master. Love has its own demonstrating historic monuments, poems,
quotes, narrations and stories. But beyond these demonstrations, some unsaid
emotions and feelings stand ahead of them. We all know humanity, kindness,
compassion, love etc, are qualities of human, but this is often expressed more
by non-human stuffs. Hope you have heard of a tree and a girl, who daily speaks
to the tree. One day she got a job and left her home, she bid good-bye to the
tree. But the tree could no longer bear her absence and started to shed off and
finally dried. We may think these are exemptions, but love is also an exemption
to be considered against hatred and furious situation.
Only the love of god is keeping us in this horrible world against
all our sins. Only the love of our parents is keeping us to live a better and
comfortable life against our mischief and betrayals often. So take an oath to
show love and kind to everyone as much as possible, because you will not lose
anything when you smile at a poor stranger, hug a deserted dog, hold the hands
of an orphan kid, which are more than million dollars of money.
Article by Femila Rani. P
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