Fredrick
Nietzsche once famously quoted, "Hope in reality is the worst of
all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man". Till sometime back, I
used to agree to Nietzsche 's argument but I am glad that I don't feel like
that today. This happened an year back, when we (me and a friend) while
discussing about random things heard two big dogs fighting. In revenge, one of
the big dogs caught hold of the second big dog's puppy and pounced over. It was
too bad because the baby puppy started bleeding terribly. However, after a huge
struggle of calling several veterinary doctors (who did not extend any support
to help a street puppy), me and my friend decided to tie band-aid around the puppy
on our own. Trust me, both of us were shaking as we did not even know how a
puppy is held while its continuously bleeding and is in terrible pain. While we
were trying to lift the brooding puppy, several people (holding ice-cream
sticks) laughed at us saying that hope is a stupid thing and that the puppy
would not even last for more than ten mins. But we decided to play hard with
hope and we finally won. Our puppy is alive today!!! No consolation prize could
have given me that feeling- a feeling in which I felt so proud of myself. I
wanted to run back to those people who were mocking at us and tell them that
'Hope is good'.
Hope is good as it
helps you keep trying harder and harder. In fact, stupid hope also is sometimes
good as it will stop you from saying 'I quit'!!!. Don't be a quitter and at
least try. My mom says - 'No is always in your pocket, then why not try for
Yes'.
Dark it was but eyes could still see,
Forgetting all that existed around me,
We sat there cheering and celebrating,
Old friendships with tinge of whining...
All was good till that happened,
Heart went berserk and eyes saddened,
We ran towards the murderous site,
To discover what is the destined plight...
We heard the puppy cry in pain,
Almost escaping the Yama's
train,
We stood there with eyes numb,
Felt helpless and inanely dumb...
Tick-tick the clock screamed,
Hypnotised we were, it seemed,
Time was running with shorter seconds,
This was my life's biggest betting...
The decision was made much before by heart,
Mind did not get to even think apart,
The puppy will be saved, has to be saved,
We began our journey to be braved...
People stood there with candy in hand,
Mocked at us saying our plan was too bland,
One of them quoted, "it will die in ten minutes",
The other said "all you can do is eat some peanuts'...
But they all were proved so wrong,
The ordeal was though tough and long,
Our puppy breathed and breathed hard,
And made us earn life's difficult greeting card...
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