The Aftermath!


Stories of war are heard by us for ages now. The passion, the valour, the bravery, the strategy - with which a war is fought - tales of which keep echoing through the surroundings for ages to come. But when the war ends - one side wins the other side loses. The battles won, are gloriously narrated. The heroes are felicitated and their endless praises are sung. But what about 'The Aftermath'? Not only the losing but also the winning side has to face it! Bloodshed, people losing loved ones, loss to property, infrastructure and beautiful belongings. Its chaos - a mess - emotional stress. People suffer for ages to reconcile with life again. These chronicles aint appealing enough to be told. They are experienced by people, forcibly. They remain silently scarred in the hearts of agonised.






Not only wars, but, also natural calamities leave us with awful aftermath. We are left disheartened. The life routine totally gets upset. People are left - homeless, suffering and find it difficult to even meet their ends.

After all this, theres still hope in our hearts - our optimisim makes us to take a u-turn. We initiate and build up things again. We tend to get up even after a abyssal downfall. We tend to grow stronger - focused - determined.

Emotional wars too end up in dreadful aftermath. We may end up losing people close to us forever. Theres systole and diastole of fervor - involving heart and mind. The aftermath could be - long lasting hatred for someone, woe and worry for rest of the life.

Some unthoughtful deeds of early generations leave unwanted aftermath for the generations to come. Similarly, we cannot forget that our actions are going to cause repercussions for our future generations. In the process, humanity gets wounded, environment gets disturbed.

We are already facing the aftermath of deforestation, heavy industrialisation, pollution and all the things practised against nature. The inheritance of tribulation and sorrow - thats the aftermath we may be left with.
There will always be a 'history' and then it will always be followed by an 'aftermath'. How we overcome the challange is what matters.
For all its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. Healing and reconciliation are part and parcel of any aftermath.
Until the aftermath, realisation doesnt dawn upon us, many atimes. Sometimes though, the aftermath teaches us lesson - we didnt think we needed to know. After that, you see the clearer picture. You see unmasked faces, the 'behind the curtain people' - holding the puppet strings. You face tragedies and all this makes you buckle up and move on with more power. Once you owe up everything - things will fall into place.
Accept the aftermath - Remember whatever goes wrong - you are never alone in the aftermath!



                                                   
                                                                                                                 JUI.



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