contd... Power of ONE

Now we haven’t ever broken the law, always celebrated the Independence Day, cheered for India, then how are we not worthy citizens? The other day I saw a guy giving a great speech of patriotism on the birth day of the Mahatma, after the thunderous applause from the crowd he went backstage put his paan in his mouth and started spitting those red fluids all over the place. Of course it was a public place, and he is the public, so that gives him the right to spoil the place.
Now let’s talk about us, a friend of mine who always considered himself a good citizen was waiting outside a govt. office that provided driving license. He had to attend a party and was in a hurry so instead of waiting for his turn he went up to the chaprashi and handed him a 10rs note and got in time for the party. As I asked him about it he said, the system is already flawed. I didn’t start anything new. Agreed, the system is flawed, what exactly does that mean.
System; it’s made up off people, the public and the public comprises of me, you, basically us. So that means we are flawed. Each time we break the rule or encourage someone to break it we are enhancing the flaw in the so called system. Keeping mum about such acts is an equal crime, a crime to the country. The thing that disappoints me the most is when the youth, today’s India also joins the trend of blaming others. It’s high time now to stop blaming and try to find a solution together.
Change in a society starts with change in one individual, change in yourself, myself, basically the self. The power of one is always underrated; power of one is the power to do something, anything. The Mahatma once said, come to think of a solution I always stop at points where I think it might not work with others, then I stop thinking about others and apply the solution to myself and gradually every one else follow. So why don’t you stop loitering the highway, patch up the hole on the road. Why not plant a tree or make sure to vote. You have the power to change yourself, your country, our country.

excerpts from my diary...

The clock showed 9 o’clock when I realized that I had been sleeping for 11 hours straight. I was late for my summer training class on the JAVA programming language for the third time in the last four days, that’s just a nicer way of saying that I haven’t shown up in the training institute after the introduction class. That’s me. I was having my breakfast when I happened to see some rather disturbing stuff on the 10 o’clock news. Every other state was having some sorts of riot and communal tensions, somewhere it’s because of some religious symbol and somewhere because of the quota system. Then I suddenly realized that India though being the biggest democracy in the world had more number of disputes internally then any other country. Not just the people but all the political parties were encouraging these disputes by taking sides. Then how can we call ourselves a peace loving country. India has seen more communal riots than any other country in the last ten years. We aren’t yet mature as a nation even after 50 years of independence, though leaping from an underdeveloped to developing country to a soon to be economic super power.

Once my uncle had told me about the three Cs of India; Cricket, Cinema and Corruption. He said these three things are holding back the country’s progress. Though I don’t agree on the first two, I believe corruption has a big role here. From grass root level to the highest administrative level, corruption has made its way to dictate the whole system. And what we don’t realize while commenting on the high level of corruption in the system is that corruption is now a part and parcel of our lifestyle, of us. From waking up to office to shopping, we are the people encouraging corruption; the system is corrupt because we are corrupt. Each and every citizen including the person writing this article should go over their life till date in fast forward and will soon realize that in one way or the other they haven’t been a good or responsible citizen. We have betrayed this country, by not being a worthy Indian.

Now we haven’t ever broken the law, always celebrated Independence Day, cheered for India, then how are we not worthy citizens? The other day I saw a guy giving a great speech of patriotism on the birth day of the Mahatma, after the thunderous applause from the crowd he went back put his paan in his mouth an d started spitting those red fluids all over the place, of course it was a public place, and he is the public, so that gives him the right to spoil the place. (to be contd.)