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"How can you drive on these roads???"
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"When are we going to get a proper water supply?!?"
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"What is this Government up to???"
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And so continues the cribbing, blaming and cursing...
Ever since i was kid, all i have heard is strong criticism, of the kind of governance we have had in this country. I have heard of the problems that governments have failed to solve over the years. I have read the same problems of poverty and hunger in civics and economics textbooks over the years. But never, have I heard or read of solutions!! Yes, the odd schemes for social and economic upliftment of the masses do pop up every now and then. But never have i heard of any real solution that could solve the problem for good. It has always been talk, nothing else. I have seen no one taking up steps to solve the these problems. Or even asking for the problems to be solved.
I ask you , so many of us have issues with the horrible condition of roads. How many of us have actually registered complains about it at the municipal corporations of our respective cities. We crib about the power cuts we face almost every day. But how many of us turn off the fans and lights of a room before leaving it. We blame the authorities for not providing us with water. How many of us have tried taking the practice water harvesting beyond our geography text books?
This is a country of a 100 million. Even if 1% of that number was to voice its opinion about the abysmal condition of the roads at the right places, then it could make all the difference. If only 1% of that number could try and conserve water and electricity, then power cuts and water shortage could reduce. But if all that were to happen then this would be a different country to live in, wouldn't it? Whether we like it or not, we have gone indifferent to all the problems of our surroundings. We have adapted ourselves to live in that kind of rubbish, but we are not willing to come out of it. Why?? Because we have gone LAZY!!!
We don't want to take the trouble of making things better for us..."why that would involve work!!!"
And the most convenient excuse we have is, that the GOVT ISN'T DOING ANYTHING. But then again why are we blaming the government? after all we were ones who put it in power to fix our problems in the 1st place, weren't we?
Wait...what is this i hear:
You didn't want that party in power??
Then how did it come in power?
Oh wait...i hear something else:
All parties are the same? They are full of fake promises?
And yet you let them come to power?
Hold on this is something new:
Our country doesn't have able leaders?
Then why are we not looking for better leaders?
You know all this is possible only if we VOTE. And that again is the problem. We are LAZY!!! Just like everything else, we will adjust to poor governance but we will not try and improve it as it will involve more work.
Until and unless we wake up as a country of individuals who take our problems seriously there is very little any technology, law, social scheme or economic reform can do for our betterment. Any form of improvement has to start from us, from the people. The road may seem long and tiring at first but i assure you, the destination would be worth the effort.
"PER ASPERA AD ASTRA"
"Through difficulties to the stars"
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Every man writes his own destiny. No one brings success or misery to one but himself. What we today will create our future, and it cud be the same old mess or a better place. So its our choice what we want our future to be. We say that the govt failed but forget that its 'we' who are the govt. The man who sits there and is called the PM is just a representative, so its us who fail, and its only us who ought to do something about it.
ReplyDeleteOur failures will take toll on our future generations who had no fault in it. So better be sure of what we do.