Given a choice to change, frankly I went Blank for a while. Then a Question Popped up- Why am I blank?!!! Is it because I have nothing to change (surely not true I said) or was it too many things that I just did not know Where to start and where to end it (Now that feels better, Lol!). A Cup of tea, a talk with my heart and my little brain said, “Buddy, you were right when you felt you want so much to change”!
Let me very humbly first let you know that the words below may not be liked by a few of you , some of you may want to stop reading . Some of you are just still reading on and some of you have mixed feelings – Read or Stop reading is running through your mind, Right! Sorry Friends, but this was important to write because- For those who are still reading- this is the change I want to see happen. It is called “ Patience , Tolerance and Adaptability to Take Action for the Good to Happen” . Yeah It indeed is a lot of change and practically impossible to get. But If I say- Can I start with myself now, I am sure that’s a bit of a Relief !
So, we all like to pass the baton to the one who started to think of a change. This is how it has been 99 out of the 100 times. But when the 01 time left when people could have like mindedness happened- we saw the revolution take place. Good and Bad both Revolutions. Then be it Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, or recently, Anna Hazare , Barrack Obama to come in Power…
Sadly Revolution for Good happened less –Example of a good one can be whenever a Country is given freedom. But once Freedom Given it cannot be left to the new Government formed or in hands of those few. A Change and a Positive one will only happen if all the people come together to make a New Home for them to live. If we see our Country after Independence , what is there right now?
We are still in a stage of development. With so many Cultures and Traditions and the Caste systems and the mindset of those who treat Humans based on Caste , Religion and the age old rituals, where are we heading towards? We still have the Girl Child being killed, Literacy rate still not a good picture , Women not Safe to walk the streets alone and dominated by the horrible Stingy Men folk, Terrorism at its highest and going stronger , Youth into addiction and not decisive to take action because we have no Structured system in place. They are in a stage of confusion as when they are growing up they find Goodness has no Value. Parents are the ones who are responsible to inculcate Values in the Children, sadly Parents have no time and the only thing they see around is uncertainty. So we leave Our Children with the Nannies and expect good values to be there in Our Children. It’s so Disgusting to me!
Certainly Good is also happening but we see so much of Bad that Goodness has lost its value . We have to adapt to the New times. We have no choice… Either Change or silently perish but not at the Cost of our GOOD VALUES. I say GOOD VALUES because I also believe that our parents Values held true in their times and I respect them but I have seen a World my way too. And if I am sure that the Change I want will be a Happy Change even if it takes some time for my parents to accept, I will go ahead. This is the confidence that is needed in the Youth today. There are Extreme cases too who are too adventurous so they must realize that You can use fire to warm you but you never know when it comes up in flames to burn you! Beware…Excess of Everything is Bad…
Can you trust anyone blindly? Count the ones you can and then the reality strikes in! Even if we have a few names , we are still doubting. Oh , this is not the World we want to live in. For those who have to say here, This is the real world , May I ask who made it this way? Its we humans , right? So if we want , WE HAVE IT IN US TO MAKE THE CHANGE HAPPEN! BUT , IF ONLY WE WANT!
Ok , there are lot of difference of opinions here as well here ,but why do we not have the Courage to take action against the Wrong and try to make a change ? What is stopping us and WHY ? We want to get things done quickly (no Patience!) even if it may not have a positive effect , we have intolerance towards so many things and we are not wanting to Change(Non Adaptability!) . We so easily say, I am not going to change , Why should I ? Oh come on, if we do not rise up to take charge then we also do not have the right to Complain about things around us . We are the only ones who can solve our own problems.
If each one of us could once realize that Change will take place inevitably but to have a Structured Positive One we all have to stand up and do a bit of our Good work…. We surely will see things work our way.
A Stop Press came my way just before I was posting –
When I was young and free, my imagination had no limits. I dreamed of changing the world.
As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the World had not changed, so I shortened my Sights somewhat and decided to change only my Country.
As I grew into my Twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me.
But alas, they would have none of it.
And now as I lay on my deathbed, I suddenly realize. If I would have only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their Inspiration and Encouragement I would then have been able to better my country and Who Knows-
I may have even changed the World!
I will go on and on with this but this is what I believe in as Tagore wrote- Where the Mind is without fear and the Head is Held high. Where Knowledge is free. Where the World has not been broken up into fragments by Narrow domestic Walls. Where the Clear Stream of Reason has not lost its way into the dreary dessert sand of dead habit. Into that Heaven of Freedom my Father… Let my Country Awake!
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