When we meet each other......

Here goes a small story.There are only two main characters in this story-Anant & Biplab.Both students-school mates , class mates , even bench mates from the past 12 years.They have been partners in nearly all activities at school and outside.They know each other quite well or so they think.This story is not about their lives but about that one winter evening.It was quite windy and Anant had just finished the school assignment that was due to be submitted the next day.Biplap, who lived in the neighbourhood, came to Anant's house to discuss about the assignment.Anant was always among the top quizzers of the school and had represented the school at various platforms and had also won a number of awards.Biplap was the best athelete of the school and he had also won a number of medals by winning various sports events.They were both above-average in academics but were outstanding in these fields.They were no doubt good friends and had a few common interests too.But there were differences, they had completely different backgrounds or should i say economic backgrounds. Anant's father was a government office clerk and saved very little whereas Biplap's family was quite rich.

When they were kids, they could never have thought about such difference and at that time Anant had only one great partner for every activity i.e. Biplab and same was the case with Biplap.They both played and enjoyed with each other without any 'barriers'.But that day when they both met, they were not like what they were a few years back.They were different.Biplap looked down at Anant.Anant also continued his relationship with biplap just for the sake of it.They were now into a relationship that could just be called 'working'-working for both of them.The joy and love that they used to derive from each other was lost- lost into the demands of the present scenario, the society.They both had set their own limits,boundaries,barriers,walls- whatever you may call them.They exchanged notes,books etc but never exchanged feelings as they did when they were children.

Who says 'we still are a child at heart' or 'there is a child in everyone'? Most of us have killed that child or kept it under a veil of ignorance.The differences can be of many types ( not just economic )and hence it is not possible to go into investigating the root causes of such a change in human behaviour as we grow older.The death of that child has led to the steep decline of humanity.Now, we all have our own boundaries,barriers,walls and dont even think beyond them because of the fear of rejection-rejection from society,peer groups etc.

Go beyond these barriers.Break the code.Taste humanity.Experience that child within and you will never be the same again.