Still in favour life

One casual but often spontaneous answer to the common question, 'how are you?' is obviously, 'fine' (Kemon achho? Bhalo achhi). The answer may be quite honest at times but definitely not all the time. On many occasions it may be deceptive -miles away from the truth. But still the respondent does not want to disclose the obvious. There is a continuous attempt to keep troubles and discomfort to oneself unless or until something terrible has struck. Even when time is out of joint, do people try to pretend to remain calm and go about doing most of their daily chores. Biological necessity?
Not all the time. Civilised people have learnt to control their emotion and passion. Even in their deepest sorrows and bereavement, they do not allow outward expression to get the better of themselves. Riven, the heart bleeds white but still they have to maintain their composure. Only in privacy, do they break down. But yet they do not lament like simple and uneducated folks who do not know how to hide their true feeling and emotion.
Maybe, the upheaval in the bosom on account of the loss of a near and dear one is of the same magnitude, only the expressions are different. In human society, a death does diminish all who are living. When someone in his or her prime takes untimely leave for the world beyond, it is the saddest moment families and friends confront. Circumstances of such tragic au revoir certainly vary. Diseases or accidents claim lives prematurely. Even the youngest member of a family has to set on the eternal journey before all others. Those living have to carry the wound to their graves.
But then there are young ones who themselves appear as the agents of death. They decimate not only life but also humanity.  And too many of them are opting for this deadly mission. At a time when they were supposed to be celebrating life, extolling life, enhancing life, they are on a macabre mission of annihilation -not only of innocent people who by no means are their antagonists but young men and women of their same age.
In such times when the world has been laid low by epidemics of such mental diseases, we answer perhaps thoughtlessly, 'we are fine'. Accursed is the generation that has failed to leave a great legacy for its posterity to preserve itself. Devious, those youths have certainly to blame themselves for their anti-life mantra. But on a closer look, the older generation that did not have the luck of fighting for the country's liberation but made the most of the opportunities will stand accused for forfeiting their responsibilities.
It is a time when only the fools and mad can consider life all right. Oh, no there are others unfeeling and always after material gains who also remain unaffected by needless extinction of lives and all-round wantonness. Then is the veneer of civility going to preserve us? Perhaps not. The fact that the exchange of courtesy and the following inquiry are the marks of collective life and recognition of each other's existence in the social system is unerring. But then the answer is not casual altogether. It is nothing but giving the inquirer to understand that we are trying, struggling to stay fine.
There lies the essence of life: against all odds and evils, people are in favour of positivism -a transition from the worst to some cherished goals. And the majority are in favour of life not against it.