The Dheet

Like a shadow, a setback always follows one. Particularly if you wish for something, rather badly, it makes you wait or even cry for it. What would you do? An awaited result, stuck money, jammed bottle of nutella when a strong arm is missing, a ghastly relationship, or that promotion you wanted terribly…there are n number of hindrances due to n number of reasons.

In a country like ours, people would refer “gifted” people and seek their blessings, start distributing alms or “charity” all of a sudden or commence being spiritual or superstitious, consult a psychic or a crystal ball or the parrot who picks and reads your future, feng shui, publicize their problems to the world and eventually GIVE UP.

It’s funny how people give up and lose their faith so easily. On one hand there is a mother who lost her own son in a terrorist attack, but she never saw the dead body of her son. So she plans to bestow her whole life in searching and hoping for her son’s return. Whereas on the other there are teenagers who feel are intellectually challenged and cannot pass school/college exams, or study, and choose to become sex workers, thieves or chain snatchers for easy money. I am not judging anybody here; everybody has a story, but why choose the easy way?

I also comprehend our eco-system where good cannot exist without bad and virtue balances vice. But why, when two infants, pulled out the same second, with the same composition, hard work (man power?) and timing result in one villain and another hero? Yes, we are all different, and yes we are all heading towards becoming psychopaths, depressed and disease prone.

Our shaping lifestyle in a nutshell - We tend to use shortcuts, buy chopped veggies and processed food, read guide books and revision question instead of real books to get the gist, we save time by using god knows what abbreviations in text messages, we booze when we are gloomy or happy or stressed or always to get the “good” feeling, we don’t write letters because they are a waste of time and money, we walk only on treadmills, we have become fake inside out and we pick the easy method everywhere. Our criminal tendencies have increased, so has our temper, we cannot take no as an answer, failure or rejection. We are impatient and restless, we want quick money, we can’t live without an air conditioner in summers, we can’t resolve our own issues leave others and afterwards we tend to be independent and separate. We have divided the world into two types – rich and poor, losers and winners! We have started complicating instead of complementing life. Oh hi “new age” world. Let us detoxify and introduce ourselves to Stone Age now. How? …Good Question.

Meet the “Dheet”. Congregate with the dheet in you – that stubborn, obstinate wild untrained beast that heaves a deep sigh only after it accomplished what it wanted. Like that passionate mother who keeps looking for her son in every damn teenage boy in the world that comes across her eye. Push your limits, run like someone’s running after you with a meat cleaver, shout, jump like you would touch the sky, listen to your favorite song so loud that you can’t hear anything else, hold your breath and dive, feel the air and smile, cook, sing, smile…laugh and cry (yes! At the same time), LIVE and realize your worth. Feel the worth of your beautiful self and mind that you are wasting every minute.

The dheet feels the elements, the dheet knows the purpose of his/her life, the dheet loves and laughs and most importantly the dheet never ever has any regret in life. Setbacks, hindrances, failures and rejections are for those who give up.  Innovate and stick to your idea like a dheet by believing in yourself. Become the dheet that can change the world with goodness and love.

***“Dheet” is a hindi word for being stubborn, willful, obstinate or a bolshie.