Kindness Is The New Religion, Agree?

Kindness is the most exciting word for me and many others like you. These days many people are trying to prove themselves kind and want to separate themselves from rest of the world. Kindness is known as "दया" (Pronounced as 'Daya') in Hindi. When I was a little kid, I still remember when me and my great sister used to have lunch in school together in a lobby. I used to call my sister "Bhai" (Brother) :) and one day I had fight with my sister over an eraser. That fight was too much and finally I won that eraser. When the lunch was over, I was sitting in my class and I felt too bad and cried inside and started thinking of my sister, how I had fight with her and for me she was important than the eraser. Same day, I went back to my sister's class as she was elder than me and had different class room, I gave her the eraser. She refused to accept but I still said, "It’s okay Brother, you please take this, I don't want this eraser" and I came back by giving her the eraser. Whenever, I think about that incident, I feel so bad. I don't know what the kindness really means but I only know about the feeling I get whenever I see someone sad.

These days people are getting aware and spreading awareness about kindness. I see the videos on YouTube, Facebook etc. where people are doing some random tasks for some unknown person or living being, where people help others and don't get anything in return. I've joined many communities, groups, liked pages on social media websites related to kindness and met thousands of people online and in person. I've found many people who are very much kind hearted and who really feel kindness and really help others rather than just to show-off their personality to be kind or to attract others for their self-motive. Yes, there are other people too who just use the kindness to hide their real intentions. Bonus little story for you to know. When I was a kid, one evening in the rainy season, there was a little frog came to the house and I was standing near the door. When the little frog was trying to escape, I started disturbing him. I didn't know that I was terrorizing him. I stepped on him and he was dead lying upside down. I went near him and saw and tried to wake him up but nothing happened. I was so sad and want to help him but it was too late I got to understand. That feeling I still remember. After that day, I didn't ever killed frogs and decided to save them and help them. I've been unkind sometimes when I killed a lizard or a garden lizard with my mates in school or near house but my mates felt pride and I felt so bad. These incidents make the impact on our lives and many people like you have these kinds of incidents many times. I want to tell you about one of the incidents happened to me which made the big impact on my mind.

In year 2008, I got admission to Diploma in Engineering at Manesar, Gurugram (Gurgaon that time) and I had to go to hostel. Every student was unknown and was far away from their home like me. I met many people there whose impact on my life is huge and one of them was Sonu. He is a great guy who is well mannered, impactful, caring, helpful, little silent and have the wonderful character. He was my classmate and ground to earth person. We didn’t know much about each other than just the names of each other and our home towns. He was from a village in Karnal district. Earlier I didn’t get accommodation in hostel so I had to stay with one of my dad’s friend. When I got accommodation in hostel, it was winter season and I didn’t had clothes for the cool weather. Sonu was not staying in hostel but was staying as paying guest in a nearby village called Panchgaon. I didn’t have the clothes for winters so, one day I had fever and before leaving from the class, I asked Sonu if he can bring the medicine for fever next day from any medical store nearby his house as there was no arrangement of any medicine at hostel. Sonu agreed and I went back to the hostel and was sitting on my bed in hostel room. After some time, someone knocked the door and as usual I thought someone to meet my roommates has come but when my roommate opened the door, he asked me that someone is there for me. I was surprised and when I saw, it was Sonu who came inside and gave me the medicine for the fever. I said, “You could bring the medicine tomorrow” but he said “You had fever so, medicine was important”. Oh God! I was blessed with the great guy. The hostel was in the same campus as the college, but the village he was staying at was about 4 kilometers away from the college and the bad part of that was, it was hard to find something to reach there or someone had to walk to reach there. It was evening and cool weather so, it was hard to go there buy medicine and come back and then again go there and doing this for someone who is not close to you is really harder. I was amazed with his kindness and generosity. I had little tears in my eyes when he went back. I couldn’t give him other than just a thanks. Later we became great friends and enjoyed the company. We had different religions but still we didn’t care for any culture. I don’t believe in religions for separation. I got to know after about 6 months that he is from a different religion and it didn’t stop any of us to talk or care for each other. I love my friend a lot and every year on 5^th January I call him to give blessings on his birthday.

Religion is the most controversial word seen today and whenever the word comes into mind, the feelings of separation with combination of positivity and negativity starts moving in people’s mind. These days, the word religion gives more negative feelings than positive. People are fighting over it and separate them. I’ve many great friends with different stories and we don’t care what the religion is because I believe that

“There is no karma, bigger than the altruism. There is no religion bigger than the kindness”

Do the little acts of kindness does matter? This is the question I want to ask you and I’ll write about it soon. 😁