Very often I think about this. What is wrong and what is right. Almost every one of us has a tendency of criticizing others. In fact people love chatting bad about others. Things like he has done that bad/good thing that day...he doesn't fit in this society....he is greedy.....she is a call girl...he is a bad man (unlike Gulshan who says I am a badman)...he is a great person because he has earned fame. The basic question which bothers me is who decides what is wrong n what is right? You or me or bunch of people we call society? Well the answer is that majority in the society decides. Over a period of time they have compiled a list which says what is wrong n what is right. But then every rule is meant to be broken Right? Every rules needs to be modified. If we don't do things which are not in that list then life will become monotonous and nothing new will happen in the world. You can imagine this from the very fact that many great inventors were ignored by this very great society when they invented things. Some Classic examples are:

1. Galileo was branded as a heretic and sent to prison for declaring that the earth traveled around the sun
2. Milton (1996) explained how the invention of what is now considered a very ordinary object, the light bulb, was initially mired in controversy and disbelief.

That was one side of the story otherwise also you didn't take permission from this society to take birth. God, if He exists [that is one another topic which needs a discussion], has sent you in the world to live your not others. So do whatever you feel is Right and not what society says is right. Moreover for the same event, people could take either side. That’s when I say Wrong is Right. Let me quote some of those

1.Iraq: I and many feel that Saddam has done nothing wrong. But then US and many other think otherwise.
2. Mahatma Gandhi: I and SOME others feel that he hasn't done as good as he has done bad to the country. Now why I say this is because even today I can not understand why he let people die unnecessary. Why didn't he himself have a bullet instead of those innocent foolish people? He earned that n thus got one on 26th Jan 1948.
3. Krishna: He had wives in thousands. He has done things which today’s society will not approve of. Then why do we take him has almighty. To me he has done nothing wrong but then as per the society's norms he has done lots of wrongs.

I can quote thousand others but now I am sure that you too can think of those. This society can say thousand things for a poor guy but very few come to his rescue, I too included. And this is after this pondering I have decided that I will use 20-30% of my earnings to help such people. Again this is not because society considers it right, it’s because my inner says it is right. To me society means nothing. Its we who makes it and it may happen that some day most of society will think otherwise then what they think of a particular event/action/incident/character today. To end this I would just say that do whatever your inner self says is correct. It could be wrong in others eyes but who cares. If you wanted to live by others standards then you are a kind of prisoner. Free your mind, life is sort and just ONE, so do whatever you dream. Remember you won't take anything with you, Geeta is right about that, none of the savings you have in the banks, none of the flats you own in different parts of the world, none of the good/bad reputation you have earned. Just live freely n enjoy!!! Wrong could be Right n Right could be Wrong. It is just perception.
PS: By the way I am not against society :-) It has many good things about it.

Mukesh Mittal
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