may god never give me power.... amen.

It is a well known fact that with power comes great responsibility, responsibility to be wise , to put others before you, to be far sighted in the decisions you make. It is a very humble request from my heart that if god has given you power , power to effect even one person’s life please don’t ruin it. We tend to become out of control in our effort to gain control over another being. This is not just a fact that can be seen when taking under consideration political scenarios like Gaza, Iraq , Burma, Somalia or any other country or nation, its not even how our own countries economy and social set up is being molded , its about the basic nature of us humans. Be it any relation or any other social affiliations we have , if we know that somebody’s self respect or any other important aspect of life can be affected by what we do, we tend to exploit it. We make sure that the person would remember that he ever crossed our path. No wonder god said that He would test us by giving us power n we think that since we are not royalty or head of state or any politician so we are exempted by this examination of our character strength. But if you think about it more closely we would find out that each and every one of us is being tested upon for the very criterion ; being in power , being able to effect people. If you are a nobody even than you would have people depending upon you , if you don’t agree than think again…. Even if you are just an ordinary man even than your relations are dependent upon you, if nobody else than your kids are and as a parent I can assure you that we try to mess their minds and ideals more than we even realize. We have grown this narrow set of rules that we follow about life and religion and the out come has to be in our favor. We by nature can not be gracious enough to co exist without dominating a human being or getting dominated by another. All of the nation in the past , present and I am sure in future have been trying their best to create a world of peace , a safe heaven where THEY can guide the rest of the humans about how to live, what is right and wrong and achieve such a noble and divine task they choose the tool of war and hatred and each and every religion that these nations follow teach them about tolerance and love and peace and yet for the same religion they fight and kill. It appears that they are fighting on behalf of God instead of for him. God in any religion never ordered to fight for him , or to choose hatred to spread His name, this negates the concept of God. We humans have the arrogance to think that we are needed to make God popular among the masses and this audacity amazes me. If we understand that our only responsibility is to do what our God wants us to do , than half our problems will be solved. We have fought each other for centuries to create peace and harmony and yet a day hasn’t passed in this world where everybody was in peace. I was watching Joan of arc and one scene just explained it for me.... the scene is that Joan of arc was captured and the priests accused her of doing this all for herself and not god while she in her mind was doing it for god as a prophecy and then she goes into this psychological trance. I think that explains a part of each one of us.... I think we all do what we want to and use a justification for our actions that we did it for a greater cause. I think under the fake blanket of graciousness and virtue we all have our own selfish and meager interest. I have seen that the people who really want to serve don’t want power and those who want power don’t want to serve. Even if we don’t accept this but the truth is that those who actually believe in God believe in humanity, in harmony , in coexisting . For them the concern is not who is right and who is wrong or how they can force people to accept what they think is right , actually they don’t have any concern for them their own relation with their God should be strong and pure rest just falls into place. We have wasted centuries of intelligence in finding out the correct law to live and yet we don’t understand what living is. And so I rest my case I just want to be happy and contended in my life as I feel that no amount of riches or power is worth it if they don’t make you happy. And if simple things in life make you happy than you have hit home, you have learnt the art of living. And for my dream in life , to achieve happiness it is very important for me to understand that power and happiness don’t go together … so I pray I never have the power to affect anybody’s life on a smaller or larger scale because I for one understand the responsibility that comes with power.