Banishing Polythene: Can we take small step towards creation of eco-friendly environment?

Today I was given invitation for attending a seminar on creating awareness among people against use of polythene. The seminar was organized by Cybotech Campus (my college) and chaired by the vice-president of our college, Abhijit Sir. The theme was to make a human chain outside the college, give jute handbags to people and create awareness among them about the severe consequences polythene causes to our environment. 

We all know polythene is dangerous for our environment and somewhere in our minds it seldom hits that we shouldn’t use it. In the past many awareness program has been organized to make people avoid use of polythene as much as possible. You also read in newspaper that once or twice in a year, government official wake-up from the sleep and start fining the shops which provide goods in polythene. Still the ground reality isn’t changing. Why?

Picturising The Defeat.

What is defeat for aspirants giving competitive exams? Is it simply not making in the merit list even after surviving in the race till last stage? The answer is Big NO! The meaning is bit broader than it seems, atleast for me. When we are out for achieving our goal, we make too many sacrifices. The level of competition in the field makes us challenge our limits. It makes us leave our hobbies. Sometimes hobbies are more than just a routine exercise. It’s like another life. But the journey towards our goal makes us do such things. We make distance from our friend circle. The same friends who were at sometime reason for our happiness. But it was the demand of time to move forward and take such hard decision. The story doesn’t ends here. Some of us even make distance from our beloved once. The preference changes, once we gave maximum time and space to our love but the demand of time replaces them with books. On the way towards our goal we don’t even care about our health and food. Day or night, all seems to be the same as there left no time to focus on other things than book, copy or notes. After continuous effort for 8 – 12 months comes the day of result and when such hard work and dedication is not rewarded by success then it seems like one of the worst nightmare coming true. The real defeat is not just the failure faced but losing most of the gems of our life on the way and then not getting the output for which we agreed for such compromise.