‘DISLIKE’

IN LIFE THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS WHICH COME TO STAY WITH US AND SO ex-pression OF THEM THROUGH VARIOUS WAYS AND MEANS, WITH OUR LIVES CENTRING MORE AROUND THE ‘EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT’ AND MORE POPULAR ‘SPIRITUAL QUOTIENT’, THE ex-pression OF OUR ‘DISLIKES’ HAVE BECOME A CHANNEL TO EXPRESS OUR ‘ABHORS FOR THINGS’ WHICH WE DON’T LIKE EITHER AT AN INDIVIDUAL OR AT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL.

 THE MOMENT WE START TO THINK AND EXPRESS, THE ex-pression OF OUR ‘DISLIKES’ CERTAINLY FINDS A WAY IN AND THIS IS WHAT PROMPTED ME TO THINK AND PEN DOWN MY THOUGHTS ON IT TODAY.

IT WAS AN ALTOGETHER A DIFFERENT FEELING WHICH BRIGHTENED MY DAY AND MADE ME HAPPY DEEP WITHIN AFTER A LONG TIME.

IT ALL STARTED WITH THE SECOND LAST LECTURE OF THE DAY, WHEN I ALONG WITH OTHER COLLEAGUE OF MINE HAD TO TAKE A PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT CLASS………..AS THE SESSION HAS BEGUN…….. I ASKED MY COLLEAGUE WHAT SHE HAD IN MIND TO TAKE IN THE CLASS…… PROMPT CAME HER REPLY, ‘AN INTRODUCTION BY THE STUDENTS FOLLOWED BY EACH ONE OF THEM EXPRESSING HIS OR HER LIKE AND DISLIKE’.

THE CLASS STARTED AND TURN BY TURN EACH STUDENT STOOD UP TO SPEAK……….A NORMAL ROUTINE AFFAIR TURNED INTO A HAPPY AND DESIRABLE FEELING WHEN THE LEAST EXPECTED ‘DISLIKE’ POURED OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF THE ‘YOUNG CHAPS’…….ESPECIALLY, WHO HAVE JUST STEPPED ON TO A NEW PATH OF HIGHER LEARNING ……..BUT WITH A STRONG CONVICTION TO CONTROL THEIR LIFE’S AND TO LIVE IT IN A DISCIPLINED WAY.

A STRONG WILLED ex-pression OF ‘DISLIKE’ LEFT ME WONDERSTRUCK…………AND HONESTLY, A SUSPICION IN MY MIND IF THEY REALLY MEANT IT………THEY DID………. ‘DISLIKE’……YES, ‘DISLIKE’…….DISLIKE FOR CIGARETTES, ALCOHOL AND VIOLENCE……..YES, ‘DISLIKE’ FOR THEM……….IT MADE ME HOLD MY HEAD WITH PRIDE……..THEY HAD MADE ‘THEMSELVES’ PROUD AND ‘US’ BEFORE PROVING THEIR METTLE WITH A GOOD RESULT, TRUE VIRTUES TO IMBIBE, WITH NO YARDSTICKS WORTH MEASURING THEM.

THIS FEELING WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED BY ME……..CERTAINLY, ON A LIGHTER SIDE, THERE WAS ALSO A CUTE REPLY, ‘I DISLIKE DRINKING MILK’…………..