WHEN EVERYONE THINKS HIMSELF AS THE MOST INTELLIGENT FOOL

The very picture speaks volumes and I am writing this blog in the hope that I am able to put across my understanding to the readers.

The line that says: …while the other is still trying to enter India.  

Let me ask you one simple question on what each one is doing about the ones existing inside the country and who is right now breaking the country apart with his own illogical views and intelligence?

We have reports on Rape, child abuse, female abuse, crimes en masse, Murder, arson, bureaucrats and people in respectable positions who flout laws and regulations, the hoarders of food, illegal assets, currency and any innumerable crimes one can think of.

Are these not terrorists?  Are they not creating a fear, a feeling of insecurity in each and everyone’s mind about their survival, the survival of their loved ones?

Just try asking any female in a democratic country like India – “Do you feel safe in this country?”  Or try asking any parent with grown-up children or children of any age – Are you concerned about the safe arrival of your child back home once he/she is outside the home?  The reply is definitely: "I hope my loved ones come home safe and in one piece."  Does this pull your heart strings?

Try asking those people who have aged parents or single parents, (whom they have left back home and gone to work overseas) how safe are their parents?  And the ones who give you an answer that there is no problem are speaking ONE BIG LIE ON YOUR FACE!   I must say that these people have no conscience.  The conscience to accept responsibility of keeping their old parents with them, the ones who treat their parent as an extra baggage, just because they feel the parents now are a nuisance in their married life, the parent's influence is of the old school of thoughts which could hamper their children in the modern generation.

If that was the case, let me remind this set of youngsters, how about putting your newborn children in the orphanage, as you want to enjoy life.  Why isn’t this child a burden to you as much as looking after an old parent who has no support, no means of earning at the senile age and who has reached the twilight zone? You do not want to make even the slightest adjustments of your parent/s in your life, while they have done so many unaccountable ones for you?

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Did your parents throw you abandoned in a place, when you were young and helpless?  Have you lost your conscience?  Or should I say, with your high profile education (given by parents who slogged and sacrificed all that they had for your education) and certificates of merit, you acquired a high status of being on top of the world that you don’t realise the ones below your feet?  You forgot all that and are now sailing on cloud nine?  You must be a living moron with no morals and ethics!

Let us not concern about the ones who fake an answer and say – We are safe in this country!  I would say it’s downright crap.  The plain truth is that nobody is safe anywhere, anytime in this country today!  It is the question of “Who is next in the line of fire.” Or “Mera number kab aayega!”

And I am being very transparent on what I write here.  Please do not camouflage my statements as “It is all in your head.  You imagine too much.”  There are millions of people like me who go through tedious tasks daily with hope in their eyes for a better future.

The good actions that come from a handful of dedicated officers in any department are being snubbed and pushed under the carpet.  The whistle blowers are shot down or exterminated violently because nobody wants to hear the truth.  Hearing the truth from an honest person only results in getting back an answer such as “ listen with one ear and leave out with the other.  Do you want to live here, or not?”  Easier said than done.

People fight, argue and bicker on topics like Tolerance and Intolerance, Patriotism, and anything that sounds negative to their ears.  Actually how patriotic are you when you argue to the one who is downright transparent in voicing his grievance?   Have you any empathy towards that person who comes asking you for help?

Every report that is highlighted as breaking news only speaks of the politicians in the wrong.  Why cannot you leave them alone to do their jobs?    If each one of you is responsible as a true citizen and abide all the rules that are set, if you have the right mindset that thinks and acts constructively why should any problem arise, anywhere?

--> I constantly hear people around me hissing like a snake that they expect things like Transparency, Trust, and Honesty.  Let me be clear on this.  Before you put one of your goddamn ten commandments down the gullet and try forcing people to give you what you want, have you practiced these on yourself?  Or are you just preaching and screeching like a rotted parrot?  Where exactly does your credibility stand, right now when you demand from people around you?
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If you want people to give you all these, shouldn’t you be the first to do and show?  How perfect are you that you can usurp these from your elders, loved ones and anybody you come in contact with?  You want respect, then, you should learn to respect people around you, irrespective of age, background or education.  Hope you are not a racist.

 You begin treating people like trash just because they are less educated than you, then you need to be put in the right place.  The reason being that everyone isn’t as lucky as you to have a family that supports you, financially or on any point. You cannot judge people and make your own assumptions.  You might be the apple of the eye in your family, but are you a true responsible human in the society today?  As a human, what honestly counts on being a good citizen and how best can you sell yourself with a true conscience? When guilty, have you been accountable for your actions?

People in India and any developing country today are struggling for the basic requirements to live a decent life – Food, Shelter, Education, clothes and Security.  And all these are linked to finance.  You are dead without money, today. Agreed nothing comes free! What is it that creates an imbalance in the common man today? 

Why cannot the mindset be changed for positivity? 

So where are you in judging people in the negative with the points given above? Stop preaching and throwing your weight around as an intellectual egghead.   I know of abusers who control, manipulate and make you feel like you are the one with the problem.  And when one comes with a problem,  they are so cold towards them.

We all need to stand up, speak out and take back our lives.  It is only when each one of us learn to empathise, love each other and stop judging people, can we expect to live happily amongst each other. Why can't people be more compassionate?

Readers, I know I have been very blunt here.  I am pained at what I see that is occurring all around me on a daily basis.  The saddest part is that people have become so immune to all this and have stopped reacting.  I should say they have given up on life and expect us also to do the same. Sorry, I do not buy that!