‘2015’ is here to stay for sure, especially because‘January’ has crossed the midway. All the hoopla of ‘Happy New Year’ has subsided.
So, something serious or mundane can be discussed without any hype.
Every year, as the new dawn changes the calendar on
the wall, we talk about what happened, and what we expect from the coming year.
To make the coming time more fruitful or more enjoyable, we take Resolutions to
streamline our haphazard life that has not been as it should have been in the year
that passed or for that matter in the whole life till date.
Most of these resolves never get realized. They remain
dormant in our minds only to appear in next December. Yet, some of us do that
ritual year after year, in the hope of improving our life one day.
For personal resolutions, it is easy to associate the
hope. But what if we wish for everybody, for our nation, for our planet earth
collectively, without any resolve? Maybe it is like a prayer that may get the
blessings of an unknown almighty one day… or perhaps it is like a child’s fancy
that is never going to materialize…
...Such a wish will remain a wish forever.
Yet, to have a list of these is an interesting
idea. Maybe one day some of them will be at least seriously discussed.
So, have a look at my wish list for 2015:
1. Work as per choice, not
compulsion:
Some of us, the privileged ones, have
achieved this. But I wish every single human being on our planet to work only
out of their passion, not because a boss is dictating it to be done or one has
to do it out of any dire need. Though an ideal situation in theory, it’s never
going to be a reality. What will happen to those menial jobs that nobody wants
to do and everybody wants to be done, if people work only for passion? Can you
recall such essential but uninteresting jobs? There are plenty including a
sweeper’s, I guess.
There may be many who would not like to do
anything at all except sleeping under the sun in winters, but to wish them
would not be prudent perhaps.
2. Violence less world:
This is a completely
unrealistic wish. Violence is an essential evil to defeat the devil. We need the
military and the police to protect the nations against the enemies of outside
and inside. And we also need individual aggression to confront the wicked
people in everyday life. Yet, I wish that the violence would somehow become
redundant. So that we don’t need to make weapons, which eat a major chunk of
our savings collectively. May our streets would become safe to roam in the
night and so on and so forth…
3. No need of God:
Sorry, if
it is blasphemy… Again it’s a mirage. We all need god in some form or another.
Maybe there is an atheist residing somewhere in this same blue planet, but till
date I have not met him or her (god knows if she is a female or what!). Still,
I wish if we can do without Almighty. The religion would transform to a political
party in that scenario, perhaps. With ‘PK’, still fresh from its resounding
success at the box-office, this wish may not be too politically incorrect, I
hope. How easy would it be to hope without fear in that case, just imagine!
4. Pure drinking water everywhere
Drinking
water has become a big business because we don’t get pure water nowadays. But
the avid travelers can vouch for many pristine places where one gets such
drinking water freely flowing from a ridge. I wish the same to be available for
everybody without spending a penny. Some of the developed nations have achieved
this feat, but for the third world it’s a distant dream. But my wish is not
about the technological advancement per se, but about the day when every source
of water would become drinkable, though the salty sea would remain an exception
for sure. Hello, is there any reverse process of pollution?
