In the current
competitive world, everyone has to be on one’s toes always. The dynamic
situations that one confronts daily demands one to be always alert to perform
the job. Thus there is too much focus on the way we think and execute using our
actions.
Charlie Chaplin, the
greatest English comic actor was deeply moved by this fact. He couldn’t believe
that people could become so materialistic that they had forgotten their human
nature.
This is what prompted him to say “We think too much and feel too
little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need
kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all
will be lost.”
Indeed, if we look at
the world which we are living in, it sounds very true. We really think too much
and work like machines. We get up daily, caught up with many chores, don’t get to
finish them, carry the burden to the next day and this goes on. We have forgotten to sense the joy of life and the nature's beauty.
We have become
more like robots which don’t have any feelings attached. The core that makes us
human is lost. And as Charlie Chaplin rightly mentioned, life will be violent
in such circumstances.
Let us try and make our lives more meaningful & beautiful
by becoming more gentle & kind in nature. Machines are important but let us
not allow them to rule us.
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