At some point in time almost everyone wonders, why do bad things
happen to me? What did I do to deserve this? Like for instance, a man driving
on a street, abiding all the road safety guidelines meets with a terrible
accident. The drunk driver crashed his car into that innocent man’s door
killing him on the spot. What did that innocent man do to see such fate? Was
the drunk driver solely responsible for the murder?
Often people say you
reap what you sow, that
means if you do good deeds, good things will happen to you and if you do bad
things, eventually bad things will happen to you. This is the law of karma.
This statement doesn’t solve my problem. The popular phrase above looks only
inwards and doesn’t include the cruel world and the things they do. There are
so many good, loving, innocent people out there who haven’t killed a cockroach
in their life, who haven’t done anything wrong in their life, yet terrible
things happen to them. Why?
Some
people say it is because of their past life. They must have done something
terrible in their past life so that’s why this happened to them now. Let me
take an example of a small 10-year-old girl. She is so pure, kind-hearted, and
probably doesn’t even know the difference between right and wrong. This girl
was brutally raped several times and then murdered in New Delhi. Will you still
say it’s because she did something horrible in her past life?
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I have searched weeks if not months on this topic, to go into the
depth of this matter, to find the real answer to this problem and I finally
think I’ve come to a solution. Let me explain by asking you a question.
Whatever you are today is it because of the result of your own actions? If the
answer is yes, then you’re wrong. Don’t you think where you are today is also
because of your parents, your school, your mentors, your society, your
environment where you grew up. Don’t these factors affect your life directly or
indirectly? I agree most of the decisions are made by you. You’re in the
driver’s seat of your life. Ultimately it’s you who choose who you want to be.
But you cannot eliminate the external factors, because human beings have never
survived independently. We live in a co-dependence society, whether we like it
or not.
Coming back to the topic, why bad things happen to good people? Is
it just because of the evildoer? I agree he is to be blamed majorly but he is
not the sole responsible for the crime. Don’t you think if the law was
extremely strict then will that man have the guts to even think about doing
such a horrible thing? Our education system is also at fault. If our education
system properly taught about sex education to the youth, then the possibility
of rape will be at a minimum. Why our education system is so awful? You can say
because of the politicians and their selfish reasons. As you can see this
blaming game can go on and on. This won’t ever stop.
Basically what I’m trying to say is ‘Jo Ek karta hai uska asar Sab pe hota hai aur jo Sab
karte hai uska asar Ek pe hota hai.’ This
means ‘whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.' So if we say the
innocent person who is suffering because they did something wrong in his past
life, neither the police will do anything nor will the education system change.
Whatever is happening is because of his/her past doings. What can we even do
here? This doesn’t make any sense. I think this has a major role in why our
country is in a terrible situation. We cannot have a narrow-minded approach we
need to think of the broader aspect.
But can you change this cruel world alone? No. Can we together change the world? Yes! A world where there is actual peace and everyone works in harmony. What I’m talking about is a Utopia world. It seems impossible to achieve this, but 500 years ago it seemed impossible to reach the moon. Yet we did the unthinkable. Human history has taught me one thing; if we put our mind to it we can achieve even the impossible. We need to change ourselves first, others will see you and get inspired and then change will come gradually. All I ask of you, Help others in whatever way you can. Be kind to other's feelings, emotions. If you can’t help anyone at the moment, that’s okay. Just do one thing, don’t hurt anyone. And the world will become a better place to live in…
