The Days When God Was Missing

A 3 year old kid was playing while his parents and grandparents were watching. The kid got excited and started jumping on the couch. The grandparents were bit anxious and tried to warn him. The parents were okay with that as he keeps doing that all the time. 


Now the kid got excited and started to jump from the couch on to the floor. This time the father along with the grandparents got anxious and tried to warn him. The mother was okay with that and said thats what she witnesses all day. But deep inside she was also worried at the kid's behavior. So she softly said not do that. 


The kid was not at all bothered, he kept doing that and this time instead of jumping on the floor, started to jump onto the coffee table. He missed it and landed with his chin on the coffee table and hurt himself. Mother came running and took him into her arms. Everyone started yelling at each other. 


The grandparents felt that the kid should have been properly warned when he was jumping on the couch and were yelling at both the parents.The father started yelling at his wife for letting him jump onto the floor.Finally the mother was cornered. 
Of all the four,according to me, she feels the greatest pain when the child was hurt but the father and the grandparents made her the culprit for not taking the right care. 


In an attempt to defend herself, she said, "I know how to raise my kid, and let him learn from his mistakes, the next time he would not do". No surprise, the kid found more solace in the mother's arms and not anyone else.


In the actual world, we as matured adults do similar mistakes, but do not attempt to correct ourselves later try to find whom to blame. As a teenager, I witnessed many stampedes during the release of my matnee idol "Mega Star Chiranjeevi's" movies. I used to get sandwiched between stout and hefty personalities. Yet my blind intention of watching on first day let me bear the pain without any regret. As far as I know, I never heard anyone complaining of it, instead felt thrilled.


On the contrary, in the recent past, I read about stampedes at Temples. Be it Naina Devi Temple or Vaishnavi Devi Temple, the death toll is alarming. I even heard some comments like, "If God is really present, why would these happen?" Firstly, these are man-made mistakes. Why blame God,for believers, when your rationality is over-ridden by stupidity. How many times one needs to commit the same mistake and still blame God for the incident and question his existence!!!. 


Whenever something bad happens, it is most obviously due to our own mistakes, but still try to defend ourselves and feel God being unkind to us.


As long as we have this inherent defect of committing mistakes out of our foolishness and try to blame God, those are "The Days When God Was Missing"