“Divide and Rule”

 

“Divide and Rule” is the worst thing that could have happened to any community, but alas we are suffering from same. Divide and rule is a thought process where you break down the energies of your enemies making them weaker. A policy, displaying the shrewd and a cunning mind. But are we still free from this concept of being divided & ruled?

Basically, we fight for freedom. This freedom has become so important that we have completely agreed the advent of nuclear families. In that road of freedom we forget the essence of unity. We forget the essence of team work. We forget that even today, team scores higher than an individual. We might understand freedom as a right or a will to do anything or everything but this is not true. Responsibilities towards others and our freedom are two sides of a coin. They look to us as opposites, but they are the part of the same coin. We have a lot to think about this word. We normally repeat various actions and waste our time because of this so called blind freedom. This blind freedom has become so hazy that we are now unable to find the meaning of unity.  Freedom is different than loneliness. Aptly said in few words, as we see the atmosphere around, divide and rule is in our blood.

Everyone of us want to rise above. We have accepted the word competition. It has hypnotized us to that extent that we have started losing trust in people around us. We can clearly observe this trend in the work environment. We can grasp that these emotions of superiority, hatred and mistrust is making us weaker as a society as well as an individual. This mistrust is the major reason why people start their own work or businesses. We can look at our system and clearly understand that unseen aggression of blankness. Most of us don’t have a vision in our life, we drag ourselves while blaming the system around us. We have already accepted it as a way of life.

Have you seen a youngster behaving differently with his friends as compared to his parents. With technologies overshadowing the traditional techniques, the generation gap is increasing year by year. We could see how a college going student behaves differently with his parents and his friends. The difference is not only in the nature of his arguments but also in his habits. The strange fact is that – they term it as natural. But in a deeper sense they can’t realize the dividing nature of their will. This habit actually makes us a double standard human being and we feel comfortable about it.

In the most predictable action of our life, love, we still behave in this similar manner. We have no patience, neither we care about the time or family. We want to fall in love so early in our life and then we want to come out of it with the same speed. In love also we divide the person. We divide that human being to behave differently with different people. We never let that person to be him or her. This is because we want to rule, even in such a beautiful expression called love. We believe that love happens, but we want to fall in love from our early teenage. The sharp contrast comes when we weigh love of a lover higher than our own parents. We keenly shatter one family to start a new one.     

Where is the problem? Who is the culprit? These questions are obvious, but someone needs to answer them. We need to answer them for ourselves. Why are we divided religiously, emotionally, politically and financially? Why our mindset is divided? We have accepted this slavery as our birth right and we are fighting with our own friend rather than understanding the basic needs of humanity. We know how a family can help its members to rise above. We don’t have to divide to rise, we can do this effectively by living together.   

To solve this issue we need to reduce the distance between us. We need to be a single identity for self as well as for the world. Our nature of being masked is becoming a reason of failure. A failure of a human being and a failure of society. Be Aware!