"SENTIMENT " --GOPICHAND

Sentiment is defined as “worldly, delicate emotion” by the dictionary. Without there is no friendship or bothering about the neighbors. It’s not possible to live together without sentiment except for some self- interest. In fact , it is the basis for marriage or family life. “ sentiment is as essential to marriage as goodwill is for business.” We can observe that many marriages fail due to lack of sentiments. In Tostoy’s novel Anna Karenina, the heroine ‘s life becomes a ship without direction because of her husband bereft of any sentiment.

No one in the world has wisdom and strength to remain sans sentiment. In spite of
surfacial exhibition of glib tongue based on logic, man yearns for tenderness inside his heart. Every character rues loneliness. Existentialists made theories stating that man is accursed and can’t escape loneliness.

Except the middle class, no talented person who observed the many facets of life rejected the sentiment. Even though Einstein was a famous scientist , the playing of harmonium melted his heart. Doctor Frederick Banting discovered insulin.Adi Sankaracharya ran to his mother like a child when he came to know that his mother had been on her deathbed. Emerson used to visit his wife’s grave at least once every day.

When requested, Bernard Baruch advised the lady Roosevelt to follow her heart whenever she felt a conflict between her mind and her heart.
When the famous are thinking like that , why should we be afraid of sentiment. This is the result of looking at life in piece meal fashion.
A child runs to her mother or any one who calls affectionately due to sentiment.
Life is turning mechanical these days. Only birth and death are remembered. We are forgetting that life is more important than birth and death. The heart has to bloom and speak. The world would be worth living in. I f you could go on planting flower trees on the path you are treading. Sentiment is an oasis in a desert, showers the scent water on the people writhing in tensions of life and gives fragrance to the lives withered.