The Fire - Within

आग, तपन भी ये ही, जलन भी ये ही
अन्दर की आग, कहती है कुछ कर गुजरने को
यह आग बुझ जाये तो, इंसान को आग लगा दी जाती है

Aag, the Fire, yesterday we celeberated the festival of fire, “Lohiri”. This is one of the very few Indian festivals, which is celebrated on exact date, Jan the 13th, like all English, American festivals. All other Indian festivals are celebrated on the basis of moon calendar and so the date of their celebration keeps on shifting from year to year. “Lohiri” is celebrated to mark the outset of winter, as from this day the cold winds starts receding and the day starts to become longer. Also, this marks the start of sowing season in North India.
During “Lohiri”, a bonfire is lit and people pray to the God of Fire “Agni”, by putting small amounts of popcorns, rewri and Mungphali (groundnut) into the fire and take rounds of fire. It’s considered to be like putting all evils into fire to destroy them and make the life full of enjoyment.
Fire is an important element of life. Every one knows the fire to be the one that destroys most of the things or used to cook food, but the Fire within us is the one, which shapes up our Life and also the life of our near and dear ones. This fire within us is the urge to do something, to achieve something, to move ahead in life.
The person lacking this fire within them, really botch up their lives and more the lives of their family. Mostly, the life of such person’s children are affected the most. As, such persons are too content with what they have and does not make an iota of effort to add something more, to achieve something extra, to run slightly faster to catch up with the world. They always blame “The God” for every failure occurring in their lives. Even they ignore the basic necessities of proper education for their children. They just send their children to any school in the corner block and never care about their studies or marks or standing in the school. They fail to inculcate in their children the importance of winning, the value of “to be on the TOP”. So, most of the time, their children lack the confidence to compete, to stand out or to win.
The good education is so important nowadays that it really shapes up the future of anyone, if applied correctly or judicially. I have seen a small petty shopkeeper in Palam Vihar, Gurgaon with a small shop ten years back sitting on top of sacks full of grocery turning into a kind of small mart with different sections for latest electronics gadgets, AC’s, washing machines, etc besides selling grocery like a latest mall. It’s a complete transformation within a few years. This transformation happened just because of the shopkeepers three sons who are educated enough to put their minds to understand the market dynamics and change with it to stay competitive and win. Their shop is one of the best in the market. I have seen them growing every year. They started with one shop and kept on adding one or two neighbouring shops every year, currently they own about 8 to 10 shops and all put together functions like a big mart with everything available for a general consumer, a big plus for customers to shop at one place.
So, you need a good education to frame up your mind and a fire within you to do something different than the world to get noticed and so to harvest the profits, which comes along with appreciating eyes.
Invest in good education for your children to fire the belief in them to “WIN”. Enjoy the Life…!!!