I feel infuriated when I see garbage thrown anywhere on the road. I can’t just go forward with my feet aligned and shallowly moving. I tend to make a difference by myself when I pick it up and throw it in the dustbin or ask them to do so. I am a citizen of this country where I believe that my single step can turn communities to do so. Isn’t it?
Today when I know, Bengaluru has 78 lakes that are required to be rejuvenated and BDA has refused to do so then what should I do? I know if I take up a single tool in my hand and start digging and collecting waste, many will join. When I know a man who lost his son in the road accident, and instead of blaming it on the government, he stepped forward and started stuffing up the pits. I know he has initiated a cause and many will follow. I want this to happen when I see, think and keep in mind that my actions that I do will instigate many to follow.
The people never duly care if it’s right or wrong until and unless the initiator makes it so. I belong to a family where I have groomed myself to be a lady and to be a responsible part of wherever I act. I can’t polarize my thoughts or spit on issues that are not worth ascending in my brain. Yes, there I am dissatisfied with the work I do. I raise my voice when I see something unethical happening, something that needs to be changed, and something that needs to be shown. But I never criticize that part of my life from where I get my bread.
It has been a common topic nowadays to talk about what JNU students did. The matters that heavily breathed in our nation. They raised their voices, they camouflaged the entire episode in different words. According to me, if you have opinions about something, say it. Don’t break the walls of speech. As it is said,
An Arrow from the Bow and
Words spoken by the Tongue can never be Traced Back.
So, as a native of this country, it becomes our sole responsibility to guard what we speak.
You know, we all are very poor souls. We all are hiding our asses in this cruel world to not show anyone what we are afraid of. We are the scariest beings on this Earth. It’s not called courage to have that bold opinion about your country that provided you food and shelter. It’s not courage to enchant slogans like “Bharat Ki barbaadi tak Jung rahegi”. It’s not courage to frame posters about the issues that every Indian is least concerned about, and I am not talking about Kashmir here.
Courage is to not know what can happen next, when you are safeguarding your country in the nail biting, chilly weather without a shelter and without being able to see your family members so often. Courage is to still lay down there. They won’t stumble upon your opinions, they will continue their duties, that’s their promise to their countrymen. The way you did when you educate yourself and many others similarly.
When you go roaming around and capture the mesmerizing beauty of Kashmir, Leh and Laddakh, did you ever realize it was because of them that we can enjoy its beauty, call ourselves travelers and ramble through different sceneries? Courage is in every single Indian who pushed their lives behind during Chennai floods and helped so many. I find courage in that every Indian who stepped aside from the vicious circle of their life and did something that coming ages will be proud of.
You can go against judicial killing. What about the innocent lives who have already been killed because of them? You can’t bring their soul back, their economic and social life back. But you can surely save a lot many from the upcoming crisis.
This incident has surely made Pakistan proud and many terrorist groups active. They know a small group of you people can be really helpful. Couldn’t you have looked beyond it? There are so many issues India is currently dealing with. Its farmers are having tears of blood. Still girls are unsafe when they trace their paths back home. Still so many places have clean water problems, so many villages still sleep in dark, and so many people are still unemployed, still so many are striving so hard to get to work in locals and come back, some lose their wallets, some lose their important documents but everyone is doing it.
Everyone is saving their income to invest in their family to make them look beyond happiness. Every single Indian. Think about them. For them your slogans are nothing. They will switch on the TV, see it, switch it off, sleep and plan their next day. They know you are wrong. They know India is what it is today because of so many efforts that have been logged in by so many people. So, it is not intolerant. When Indian courts took 3 years to punish Afzal Guru. They can’t be wrong. He was not court’s special case or judges were playing his best friend but he was yet another killer. A big one; that’s it. Understand the fact people. Contribute where it is really necessary. That youthful energy; that anguish in eyes and that will to make it done is required for so many other things. Just don’t let it ruin.
As I said, whatever you do always has followers. So be a good initiator.
