Is it only saving the
soul can save us or saving something else can also save us? This question came
up the other to my mind while talking about the Swachh Bharat campaign started
by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This does not mean only maintaining
cleanliness rather it means everything neat and clean.
SOS – Save our Souls, is
still recognized as a visual distress signal. The SOS distress
signal is a continuous sequence of three dots three dashes and three dots, with
no spaces between the letters – notated by the over the bar. In international
Morse Code, three dots from the letter S and three dashes make the letter O, so
“SOS” became a way to remember the order of the dots and dashes. In modern
terminology, SOS is a ‘procedural signal’ or ‘prosign’ and the formal way to
write it is with a bar above the letters: SOS. In popular usage, SOS became
associated with such phrases as ‘Save our Souls’.
S is three dots. O is
three dashes. Thus letters sequence SOS is dot dot dot then dash dash dash,
then dot dot dot. For an SOS signal, it is common not to include the letter
spacing. That makes a very distinctive recognizable sound to radio operators
and senders alike that is quick to repeat and not commonly found in
transmissions. Thus in radio signals can be picked up in bad radio conditions
like far away and even static.
Later, people tried to
rationalize and explain it as to what the letters meant; some said SAVE OUR
SOULS or SAVE OUR SHIP. But it was really because of the Morse code.
But I took it otherwise
that in our present day life, it is more necessary to ‘Save our Stuff’
also. As to how we can save our soul when we don’t have the
intention to save our stuff.
In daily routine life, we
see the spurious material available in the market – it may be vegetable,
pulses, eatable material and even medicines. Do we think that such
stuff available in the market will save us our soul for a long time?
Sometimes I think as to
how they do the marketing of such material by killing their inner soul and
putting the lives of people at risk.
More so we the Indians
don’t have the intentions to dispose of the used material in a proper way,
separately the dry and liquid which makes a mess at the dumping sites and
cannot be converted into manure purposes.
Education and Health are
two sectors which need to be taken care of to have a healthy life, society and
the environment around us. It is not understood as to why the cheap quality
material is allowed in the market. Why is every product not as per
the ISI specifications?
Frankly speaking, it is
better to eat less than to have more of substandard quality stuff at cheaper
rates. If SOS can be used to give a signal in the event of emergency
to ‘Save our Souls’, there is definitely call for time to
give a message to the society to form a healthy environment by taking of the
stuff of the production in each sector to say that SOS also stands for Save our
Stuff.
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