A Child’s Diary: Saee Yogesh Kokil’s Corona Lockdown Days

August 10, 2020

Happy Raksha Bandhan

On the auspicious day of Raksha Bhandan a sister ties a thread to brother asking him to protect her. As the name suggests it’s a protection bond. It was indeed a joyful festival among the sequence of negative happenings. In my locality I tied Rakhis to my brothers, Rudra, Shiva and Advay. I even received awesome gifts from them. This festival has a significance in Indian history too, a woman sent rakhi to an enemy, who was threat to her empire; calling him to come for protecting her. Seeing the thread, the brother came running to protect her but Alas! She died till his arrival.

Among this festival we also had Friendship Day, it’s said when we born, we have readymade relatives but in life friends are made by us. Best friends are one soul dwelling in two bodies. A friend picks you up when you fall but waits till he finishes laughing…All this makes life adventurous.  I believe that the way darkness does not have its own existence, it fades with the advent of light; the same way we don’t have any reality without friends.

But these festivals are not shown by presenting gifts to one another, by simply showing your love and care towards the person. We all are wealthy we have money we have cars, but we are tiny minded people so called “Poor”. We make friends and keep friendly relations with our relatives only when they are wealthy. Yet a human who does this all from his heart without even taking a glance at the person condition, is truly called “Rich”. Nevertheless, in this era we don’t have anyone rich.

Finally, I would end up by saying ‘Good people are like candles they burn themselves up to give others light.’

Until next blog Bye bye….