All Along The Watchtower

A thought came to my mind today.

About how innocence in the world today is really lost.
We knew long back that innocence in thought had been long lost, innocence in actions too.

But the fact which startles me is how we've even lost innocence in feelings.
About how there is no innocence left even in any emotion we experience.

No innocence in the feeling of happiness. If we're very honest to ourselves, we'll think to find that they're have been very few moments in the 'non-childhood' part of our lives where happiness has not been accompanied by a hint of pride or ego.

No innocence in the feeling of sadness without the disgust and jealousy, mostly because of happiness being experienced by some one else at that point.

No innocence in the objective of thought. No one thinks without a motive. How often to we just sit and think, just for the sake of it?

No innocence in the feeling of ambition without that portion of selfishness , superiority.

No innocence in the feeling of faith, devotion without that part of impatience, weakness or fear.

No innocence in the feeling of love without that pinch of insecurity and frustration.

.. Maybe all this has always been realities of adult life, have always been the side effects of the society our fore fathers have built. Succumbing to this is very simple, fighting it exponentially hard. But in whatever little way i can, i shall try and hold on to that school uniform, my window seat in the bus, that dance in the rain to retain that innocence. In the smallest way possible.




"Don't care what people say,
Just follow your own way,
Don't give up and use the chance,
To return to innocence"