College Week (pillar decor comptition)

Why am I writing today? Actually it’s about a silly thing that seems very important to me...so before you actually begin reading let me warn you ...read this one only if you are cynical and impossible like me...
Today, pillar decoration competition was held at my college...I chose the theme Gandhi because recently some of his items were auctioned for millions in London...it’s not that the millions surprise me...what surprises me is that only these things of Gandhi have become important to us now...we don’t care about his principles of Ahimsa, truth, simplicity, equality any more...
This thought was in my mind for ages and I knew that I had to vomit it out to the world some way or the other and this pillar decoration competition seemed just the right opportunity...
For the first time in my life I painted human faces (as this is prohibited in Islam)...I thought about it again and again and finally decided that the motive I had was good enough and Allah will understand that what I wanted was not just winning...it was something else...which is more difficult...
At the end we landed winning nothing, not even consolation prize (better known as condolence prize these days)...
I am still confused what was wrong...why didn’t the teachers understand that millions for a watch is not comparable to thousands smiles would have brought to peoples...perhaps Vijay Malaya can’t just get over his swim suit models...he might be doing charity but any expenditure like this can never be explained...he will be answerable for this to the Almighty...
But it was more difficult to understand the minds of the judges...is this thing so complicated...I mean come on, deep inside you everyone knows right and wrong...what’s difficult is that you don’t have guts to accept it...and more difficult is to say it ...and standing for it, fighting for it nearly seems impossible...but you know today I said exactly what I wanted to say ...the right words at the right time...even though I lost I have never felt happier...cause now when I can say it, I believe that someday I will actually start fighting for it...for the truth...just like Gandhi...
Let’s see when that day comes...Insha’Allah it will happen here in JNMCH...Amen!!!


P.S.: I just hope that I at least shook one soul today...that is enough for me...