Bridge

   I was passing over a bridge in my car. A date was written at entrance to the bridge, mentioning when it was constructed. The work would have lasted for two years or so. Before that it would have been very difficult for the people to cross the river. It might have needed a long drive through another bridge. Perhaps people might be using boats. They might have to transfer goods from one vehicle to boat and then to another too.

   Somebody made the bridge and now many are benefited on its account. Toil of a few people and a fixed cost; and gain for many.

  We can join two banks with such efforts and expenditure. But can’t we build bridges between minds of people, between  different ways of thinking and beliefs? And lo! It does not need any expenditure or physical, efforts. What is needed is just change of attitude.  We have just to reach the mind of the other person. We have to build a mental bridge only. We have just to reorient our thoughts, speech and actions, just an open minded compromise in our fixed way of being.

  If such bridges were there, so many wars, vengeance, bloodshed and grief    could have been avoided.

  But it is building such bridges that is the most difficult!

  Why? 

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પુલ ઉપર – એક અવલોકન