“To be good, it must
last” was the phrase which caught my simple mind. It was during one of those
days after I finished 12th and was in a school representing my
younger brother’s result day. The guest of honor was a district magistrate who
while giving away the prizes to the students, who have out-stood others in the
exam, made a very big statement to those young kids gathered in front of the
school. I really do not know if students understood what he meant or not, but
for me it kind of came as a very good food-for-thought.
How many things abruptly succumbs to a change of failure and
suddenly good thing they once stood for is evaporated in a thin air? How many
heroes end with a big tragedy when they meet their nemesis? How many of us are
not able to keep up our good works or achievements? It’s as easy as to say that
nothing lasts longer and that’s the beauty of everything in nature.
Today as I stand here looking at the same articles in a blog
for about more than a month, I get a bizarre feeling whether the blog that I
loved once so dearly is in dire need of my attention? And I get a guilty
feeling of those days when I even forgot to check the blog, and I am here
shamelessly trying to ask forgiveness for not being able to update and keep the
life breathing healthily in it. And of course to those bloggers with whom me
and my blog grew up, I am sorry to have not updated my blog and has left the
space for this long.
Of course, in the stage where I have just begun my life, the dreams and the works occupy most of my time. And it’s become tough to keep the strings of other things in life uptight and updated.
Now I understand what the phrase meant and what magistrate
then was trying to tell the young kids. To be good, or to earn the quality if
being good, one must continue the good spirit of doing good things and never
let the good things slip away. Just being good at one time and gradually losing
the quality doesn't qualify to be good.
