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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Comedy / Humor
- Published: 12/20/2011
Take Care (II)
Born 1949, M, from Kashmir, India“…………yes, yes, modern education has jeopardized moral and spiritual values. I am absolutely against it. Modern education has degraded humanity and made immodesty and immorality an attitude.” He was offended by my advocating modern education in the village.
“But isn’t it an established fact and beyond any shadow of doubt that education has done wonders in the development of humankind? It has broadened the horizons of mind and widened vision. Hasn’t it improved the approach of a man towards life and helped him in promoting the sophistications and style of human life?” I asked him and continued my argument, “suffocation in the atmosphere of illiteracy has adversely affected the capabilities of the human brain while education has washed out the cobwebs from human perception and made its thinking comfortable.”
He laughed and then laughed loudly and said, “a joke flashes from my mind: A drunkard under the influence of liquor fired upon his father-in-law. He was prosecuted. The judge began to count the shortcomings of alcohol. He, while addressing the accused, said, ‘listen you gentleman, it was the influence of this alcohol under which you could not judge making your own father-in-law a target; it was the effect of this alcohol that made you to brandish a dangerous weapon like a pistol; it was this bloody whisky that provoked you to shoot your father-in-law; but of course it was also the consequence of this very bloody alcohol that caused you to miss the target and your bloody father-in-law escaped!”
Laughing loudly on his own joke, he further added, “There may be some benefits from this bloody modern education also, but it is dangerous in its totality and harm to religious ethics. Modern education spreads evilness and immodesty.”
“Had we been blind, there would have been no perceptions of beauty; as a consequence there would have been no jealousy, no rivalries, no greed, no tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, no wars like first and Second World War, but just peace all over the world! Does that mean that the light of our eyes is a curse not a blessing? No, it is not like that! We have eyes to see. They are a blessing if we use our sight for the welfare of mankind and a curse if we use this light for wickedness!”
He giggled. I asked him, “why this giggling?"
He replied that again a joke emerged from his memories, so he continued, “one day a beggar went to a rich man and begged for alms. The rich man told him that he would give him 20 dollars if he could judge among his two eyes which one was the artificial! The beggar replied, “Sir, your right eye is the artificial one!” The rich man, while paying him 20 dollars, asked the beggar, “but how could you guess it so accurately?” The beggar replied, “Sir, I felt compassion reflected from this very eye!”
My mind is like a capricious wind. It flows to thoughts, and as a result different points emerge while I begin to write on any subject. But it carries a silver lining too, my writings become varietal.
A man came to the city from a village to purchase some goods for his domestic use. When he returned home, he asked his mother, “mother, I am hungry, please give me something to eat!”
“Didn’t anyone offer you food there?” His Mother inquired with surprise.
The son responded and said, “Mother, did you offer any hungry food here that you would expect anyone should have given something to your son to eat there?”
The mother felt ashamed!
Take Care (II)(Nazir Jahangir)
“…………yes, yes, modern education has jeopardized moral and spiritual values. I am absolutely against it. Modern education has degraded humanity and made immodesty and immorality an attitude.” He was offended by my advocating modern education in the village.
“But isn’t it an established fact and beyond any shadow of doubt that education has done wonders in the development of humankind? It has broadened the horizons of mind and widened vision. Hasn’t it improved the approach of a man towards life and helped him in promoting the sophistications and style of human life?” I asked him and continued my argument, “suffocation in the atmosphere of illiteracy has adversely affected the capabilities of the human brain while education has washed out the cobwebs from human perception and made its thinking comfortable.”
He laughed and then laughed loudly and said, “a joke flashes from my mind: A drunkard under the influence of liquor fired upon his father-in-law. He was prosecuted. The judge began to count the shortcomings of alcohol. He, while addressing the accused, said, ‘listen you gentleman, it was the influence of this alcohol under which you could not judge making your own father-in-law a target; it was the effect of this alcohol that made you to brandish a dangerous weapon like a pistol; it was this bloody whisky that provoked you to shoot your father-in-law; but of course it was also the consequence of this very bloody alcohol that caused you to miss the target and your bloody father-in-law escaped!”
Laughing loudly on his own joke, he further added, “There may be some benefits from this bloody modern education also, but it is dangerous in its totality and harm to religious ethics. Modern education spreads evilness and immodesty.”
“Had we been blind, there would have been no perceptions of beauty; as a consequence there would have been no jealousy, no rivalries, no greed, no tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, no wars like first and Second World War, but just peace all over the world! Does that mean that the light of our eyes is a curse not a blessing? No, it is not like that! We have eyes to see. They are a blessing if we use our sight for the welfare of mankind and a curse if we use this light for wickedness!”
He giggled. I asked him, “why this giggling?"
He replied that again a joke emerged from his memories, so he continued, “one day a beggar went to a rich man and begged for alms. The rich man told him that he would give him 20 dollars if he could judge among his two eyes which one was the artificial! The beggar replied, “Sir, your right eye is the artificial one!” The rich man, while paying him 20 dollars, asked the beggar, “but how could you guess it so accurately?” The beggar replied, “Sir, I felt compassion reflected from this very eye!”
My mind is like a capricious wind. It flows to thoughts, and as a result different points emerge while I begin to write on any subject. But it carries a silver lining too, my writings become varietal.
A man came to the city from a village to purchase some goods for his domestic use. When he returned home, he asked his mother, “mother, I am hungry, please give me something to eat!”
“Didn’t anyone offer you food there?” His Mother inquired with surprise.
The son responded and said, “Mother, did you offer any hungry food here that you would expect anyone should have given something to your son to eat there?”
The mother felt ashamed!
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