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Uttarayan, the famous
kite flying festival is around the corner. For me it is my favorite festival,
as a child we would have started flying kites as soon as we finished Diwali
celebrations. We were kids then, and had lot of time. How I miss those days
when we would meet up at friend’s places on weekends to celebrate the coming
festival. Even today, the festival has not lost its meaning to me, though time
is less, still I make it a point to celebrate the festival with lots of kite
flying and Undhiyu (type of mixed vegetable).
While I await the
festival for all the fun it will bring to our lives, I lament at all the
families which mourn the death of their near and dear ones on this day. It
hurts to see parents scolding or restricting their kids to celebrate the festival
because on this day they lost someone dear. I want to ask how fair is this? How
do you expect your kids not to fly kites when others are enjoying it so much?
How can you see them unhappy on the day of the festival? How can you take away
their happiness, just because you feel like mourning the death of a loved one?
Festivals are
celebrated to bring joy to the world, by doing this, what we bring in is more
sadness to our lives.
It is said that
those who die find a permanent place in the heavenly abode. How sad, how unhappy
they would feel to see you mourning their deaths when it is actually time to
celebrate. In fact they will be happier to see you happy with all others in
your neighborhood.
I understand it
is really difficult to lose someone you love, their thoughts never live us
alone, but they can be also remembered by being happy, why mourn?
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