Holi: A festival for integrity
10:03Holi is a festival of joy; it is a festival to cherish beautiful colors of your life; it is meant to respect victory of truth over devi...
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Holi is a festival of joy; it is a festival to cherish beautiful colors of your life; it is meant to respect victory of truth over devil and to bring people together; it is meant to enjoy with as many people as you can. It’s always good to fill lives of people with colors. Not only these colors of Holi touch people physically but emotionally these colors leave an unbound and loving impact somewhere inside.
In today’s world, when people are busy in their own lives
they don’t realize how far they are going from people who surrounds them. Only
social networking has become a sole reason of connection with people.
This festival is meant to break this stereotype at least
once a year. Everyone wants a colorful life and Holi gives us a chance to
realize this. These colors are meant to spread a feeling of oneness, happiness
and joy everywhere.
On this Holi, I enjoyed a lot with my friends. We were six
people standing near Mahamaya temple when we saw the board of old age home in
front of us. We decided to go inside and celebrate Holi with people there. I
remember when we entered the gate; there was only silence which we were
feeling. As we took some steps further, we heard a voice “RAM RAM”. Kritika, as
a resident of that area was accustomed to these words; the old man who was
sitting there had made his habit to converse with people and wish them “RAM
RAM”. We said the same in return.
We asked them to play Holi with us. We made their face
colorful and all of them were smiling. When we took photographs with them, they
were enthusiastic and happy to cherish those moments with us. They blessed us
and we left the place but before we could leave, that old man again said, “Kal
bhot log aayenge tum bhi ana beta”. We smiled and gave him a nod.
We stood at a nearby place to have a chit chat where Riya and
Geetanjali dared me to color policemen’s face with Holi. I accepted and went to
him. At first he denied but then agreed to put on a Holi tika. As I came back
to my friends, an uncle came and he asked us to put on Holi tika to his face.
There was another women sitting and watching our mischiefs. She was smiling at
us.
I went to her and asked whether I could put colors to her
face. She was delighted and we spread colors to her face. She was not known yet
she was happy to celebrate Holi with us. I think somewhere we are lacking in
connecting with people. It’s an important part and I realized the need of this
connection this year on Holi.
All I learnt this Holi is that it’s not just physical colors
that we put on people but it’s more than it. Your single touch of delight can
make someone’s day. These colors remind us the need of addressing people. It
teaches us to spread colors and bring smile to their faces!
