Monday, May 19, 2014

Sneha G Bapat

Sneha G Bapat is a standard 12 student from Pune, Maharashtra. She has decided to dedicate her summer holidays to do what her heart tells her and volunteer with AarogyaSeva in Bangalore for 4 weeks. At 16 she is our youngest intern and has already participated in the TCS Majja Run to support the cause of rape and abuse in India. She is going to spend her time learning, participating in seva activities and helping us with various tasks. Here is what she has to say:
"All our lives, we negotiate about what we want, what we like and what the world wants and likes… We keep on thinking whether to stick to our own choices or to go with the world (flow)(other people’s opinion). There is this conflict between our mind and out heart, where generally the mind wins and we end up putting our choices aside, end up giving up on our dreams. We just tend to go with the world. Follow the Trend! Follow, like Sheep…! We walk the same trodden path rather than making our own trail.
We keep on running round the clock , don’t even have time for our own thoughts forget the others.
We don’t LIVE, we just “E-X-I-S-T”, in a false world, go round in an illusion. Believe and conquer lies. We don’t even know when the day starts and when it ends. So busy with our so called “MODERNESS” , we don’t even breathe leisurely. We follow the same routine everyday, which has somehow become the part of our lives. Everything is so fast-paced that everything else around us is a blur…! We don’t have life in us, we are machines which have been set to do work. We breathe for working, for toiling, for spending our lives in boring and bare office rooms, tying and clicking our soul (life) away.
When we live life happy, sad happy- sad, little do we know what lies ahead or what life has in store for us. It is so true when it is said “ Time is money” people run around the clock doing so many things (chores), laboring themselves till they are all weak and grey and then sit and remember all the days behind and repent and regret and think/imagine how nice it would be if they could just go back and change things, so they could have a cup of tea now with a smile on their lips whenever they think of their past."