Just when you think that today’s students know nothing but violence to get their voice heard, a refreshing movie comes by. No, I am not referring to lagey Raho Munnabhai, but I am referring to a little known movie called Amazing Grace & Chuck. Let me tell you its story..
In this small town of US, there lives a kid named chuck. He’s the star pitcher of his baseball team, and his dad is a fighter pilot. One day, students from his school are taken to a trip of a nuclear missile silo..where chuck comes to know the killer power of nuclear missiles, when the scientist tells him ” Imagine your sister dropping a spoon in the kitchen.If one of these missiles happens to land in a 30 mile radius, your sister will be vaporised before the spoon hits the ground”
This has a huge effect on chuck, who refuses to play in the little league match of his team. slowly, a major league baseball star listens to this, and teams up with chuck. Now chuck goes silent, vowing to talk only when all nuclear weapons are dismantled. subsequently, this catches on, and children all around the globe go silent.
Many twists and turns later, the movie has a happy ending, with both US & Russia dismantling their nukes, and the kids of the world talking again.
Now this could be a great work of fiction, but will it work in real life? I guess it will…a civil disobedience movement was launched by the father of our nation, that was absolutely non-violent..and yet it succeeded.
Violence always creates more violence. Hatred creates more hatred…
The world certainly needs neither of these. It needs love, compassion, non-violence…
Please remember, it is always easy to slap someone…but it is tougher to hold back..and even tougher to present your other cheek.
Whatever our civilization may be, whatever culture or religion we might belong to…we must remember that violence is not a reply to violence.
True salvation is always in forgiveness…in compassion…in peace…and in love.
Let us all make this world a better place to live in.
The author pays his homage to the countless victims of terrorist strikes across the world, on a day that has now been embossed in our memories as the worst day ever in the history of humankind. May all those souls rest in peace