Author Unknown

Today also as usual, there is no name of the writers on all of its positive living page on The Himalayan Times. Lately, I have been reading so many small articles on The Himalayan Times, especially on Mondays, on its positive living page. What always strikes me is those small nice positive writes ups which gives energy to life and feel good articles that also inspires us to see life from the positive angle; all the time are by writers who are unknown. this ratio is more than 95% compared to the articles, which bears the name of a writer.

It always makes me wonder, why ? Why those nice, inspiring and feel good articles, which gives us a hope to see life from different angle; misses its writer’s name ? When people talk negative and pour all frustrations out in their articles, then the writer’s name is not missing, when otherwise, we don’t even need to know. Who are the one, who is injecting all negativity, frustrations and defeated mentality in our subconscious mind.

With the invent of Google people can always copy and paste it easily. Lets put it in better way; they can always compile it, and make all article look like the compiler wrote it. At the same time they can make the easy money by publishing it from anywhere.

But a big name are involved in killing good writers by publishing articles on author unknown was something, I should have guessed it long time ago. But guessing is one thing, and having your guess confirmed is another thing.

Recently, as I was reading one more nice piece of article on The Himalayan times [Monday, march 26, 2012, page 15] something so unexpected strike me once again.

This particular article was talking about Joshua Bell, playing most intricate piece of music on his violin worth 3.5 million on the most busy metro station of washington DC. It says he collected $ 32 dollar from about 20 people only, who passed by listening him on the station. He was the well recognized violinist of the US and then playing incognito at the metro station, which was organised by the Washington post as part of an experiment on the perception, priorities and taste of people.

Although, it raised most valuable question like, do we stop to perceive beauty to appreciate it do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context ? an at last it raised the most important question also like, if we do not have moment to stop and listen, in the world playing the best piece of music ever written how many other things are we missing ?

But my mind was asking perhaps a bigger question, is this the dailies like Washington Post who is killing good writers ? who inspires us, motivates us and give us feel good write ups, which gives us more reason to hope in our life to live. These dailies can control so easily those articles coming on the dailies. they always ask the writers name must be written clearly, while sending the articles for publication. If a writer do not write their name, while sending it to the publication house; will it get published ? Really ? One more question, who on earth; do not want to see their name, when they send it to the publication house or dailies while they send it for publication of their articles or story ?

The Atheist

Many years ago, I was watching this TV program on our only national flag barrier channel, NTV. Then it used to air, very good quality programs compared to now a days. The story goes like this :

A bunch of youngsters went to temple and when the priest offered them some prasad, one of the atheist in the group said loudly, “Heah, I don’t put it, as I don’t believe in GOD !” then the priest, remembers his own time, as an atheist and starts telling them the story behind how he ended up as a priest.

In his youth time when he was married, he himself did not believe in existence of God and then was arguing with his wife for his being or not. It so happened that he married a core believer of GOD and His existence on earth. During one such argument with his wife, he refused to eat. Because his wife was reasoning that, “GOD will feed him even if you refuse to eat.” “If he feeds me, then I will see how he will feed me was his logic.” Saying that much line he leaves home and heads for the forest to hide himself up in the tree, thinking no one will see him and then make him to eat.

Whole day passed by, without much happening. But when the dark started rolling in the deep forest he saw some people coming to nearby the place where he had been hiding himself up in the tree. They were the group of burglars. Suddenly they saw food, warm food left in that jungle so the gang leader got suspicious and started looking around. As the food was warm, so the group must be nearby. After searching for a while they spot our atheist, on top of a tree. They bring him down the tree, and start questioning his motto, to leave food on the ground and then hiding himself up in the tree. The thugs gang thought that the food must have been poisoned so they wanted him to eat it first so that they could dive in the food.

Remember he refused to eat food that day ? so he refused to eat it. the suspicion got stronger not and so they wanted to be sure that it’s not been poisoned. The thugs started beating him until he had no option but to eat that food.

Then just like that he remembers his wife line, “ if you don’t eat the god will make you eat even he had to beat you up to make you eat.” This small incident changed his believe in God and from that point onwards, he became a hardcore believer of God and his existence on earth.

After hearing his story, the youngster from the group accepts the prasad offered by this priest.