Stories About Diligence - Character Development Series

The old days are always remembered when we look at today's generation. Technology is for our comfort, it does not mean that we should be slaves to technology. There are only a limited number of youth who use it, the rest of them are slaves of technology.  When we walk around, we find each one using mobile-connected headphones and they move around in such a way that they are the only ones in this universe and no one else. They have nothing to do with the traffic passing through the roads. Not only this, they have become so lazy that they chat from one room to another in the same house, instead of talking face to face. This increases communication gap, there is no social interaction, Today, we meet on social platforms, not face to face. In our early era, there were social gatherings, a time of family happiness, where all members of society or family sit together and exchange their thoughts, share experiences, mourning and happiness, today it has been replaced by social platform ...

"Speed thrills but kills" this saying came to my life and taught me a great lesson. This was Jul 2006, when I was at Guwahati. It was a holiday, four of my friends came to me and proposed to have lunch together.  We visited the local market, purchased vegetables, con diments and other necessary commodities for the lunch and came back to my house. We started preparing lunch and had it together. Everything was very nice. We were enjoying our holiday. After lunch we had some gossip, laughter  and jokes. Then we went outside the house to visit a nearby tea garden. We were all happy for the event. We could not guess how the two hours passed. Then my friends asked me to return as their residence was nearby. I urged them to leave them at their house. When we reached at their residence, a friend of ours was waiting for us. He asked me to come to the market with him. I refused but they all forced me to sit behind him on a motor cycle. He began to accelerate and, after driving a ki...