Holi: Is it absolutely needed to celebrate?

Holi Hai!! Holi!! Holi!!! Happy Holi… Bura naa Maano Holi hai…Rang Barse… Balam Pichkari….

And a lot many more. A thousand phrases to celebrate the joy of the festival of colors seem to have overpowered everyone. The day is impending, and I know, each and every one would be out there to paint another one, with colors pink, blue and green. Each and every one seem to enjoy this festival which symbolically represents the importance of colors in our lives. We instigate the fact in our lives that colors are essential to paint the canvas called life. Similarly, on higher levels, if we think, we will find that each feeling which we feel, is representative of some or the other color. Some are bright and warm, while others are dull and cold.

But what if someone is an addict to just dull sides of life. Even if he is pushed in a bright and lively world, he feels the pressure to be attracted back to the darker confines of his/her personality. Here, it is not his/her fault. It is just the fault of the world, who is never ready to accept that not everyone in this world can be the same as you. No one can enjoy a day like you. It is completely fine if someone do not like some festival, you do not need to question his/her mental stability. It is just a matter of choice and liking. And in life too, not the whole population is meant to be happy and not everyone likes being happy for long. I know it is human tendency to hope for happiness, but some are meant to take stress and stay dull even when everything is in their favor. This is because they are meant to be so. The world is a complex maze of personalities, who differ from each other in many respect, and the world or nature do not questions someone, or do not snatch the right to live from him.

So, why do people tend to question and make someone feel inferior when he/she do not enjoy happiness more than gloom. Why someone is questioned when his likes and dislikes do not match the majority? Why do people tend to make others feel smaller, who do not like socializing with others.

The world is meant to accommodate diversity and variety. It is high time for us all to understand that too and learn to respect everyone, irrespective of his/her nature, likes, dislikes and orientations. If someone do not want to get wet and soaked in colors, its fine. Make him feel comfortable. Make him feel alive. Have you ever seen the nature pestering one species because it looks ugly or frugal than others? Same should be the case with human beings too.