Before Changing the World, Lets Change Our Selves

Tale of a battered Nation

Our Motherland is going through some of the worst times in the last 20 to 30 yrs. There is a social commotion everywhere around. India has never been battered so much so when compared to the times of British Rule. The irony is that, this time it’s our own people with vested interests. Politicians, Bureaucrats, Law enforcement agencies, all seem to be hand in glove. We can all blame this on our selves for this hara-kiri.     

Time to Introspect

To bring about the change in the country, first we have to seriously analyze within our own self, whether or not we have succumbed to pressures? This is real nerve testing as its easy to blame someone, but to undergo a self lie-detector test is really painful. But on the other side we also do realize that we had no choice. Paying the bribe to get birth certificates to death certificates is a usual phenomenon across the length and breadth of our country, and no one protests yet pays up and unknowingly becomes the part of this ugly rotten system.

The Web

However you may want to regret your decision but you are caught on within the system. It sucks you in and what follows behind you is a series of highs of corruption you get involved in. Traffic violations, you pay bribe or call up influential people to save u from discomfort, you go ahead with a civil construction against the laid norms and, you are seen greasing the palms of officials, want to secure a particular tender or deal in your favor, the kickbacks are the order of the day. By the passing of each day you cross one limit of morality and the day comes when there is none left who can least, compete with you on any moral grounds whether legitimately or illegitimately.

How do you come out of it?

It’s still not too late to comeback in the mainstream and breathe free, full of freshness and without fear. Imagine the moment when everything around you functions in a way the morality demands, in a way your Country needs it, above all the courage to stand up and face your children eye to eye.

A one time discomfort of a non – approval of a building plan or tender or deal may not come through, but a lifetime comfort of a feeling shall always linger on etched in your memories. If every one among us live with this thought, then let me assure you we don’t need to change anyone. Everything falls in its own place and once a battered country and its citizens – Shall rise up again in full glory as it has always done in the past.