Sunday, September 17, 2006

Patience: A remedy to life!

"This society will never change"...A common expression we make when we look at the miseries in our life. We humans are well equipped and apt in the art of blaming, whether it is cricket or politics, ration line or exams everything is everybody Else's fault . We are never wrong, is it? U blame someone and that person blames you. As we software engineers would put it, it is an infinite loop or a deadlock situation. But when is it that we decide to take up our responsibilities, take the complete burden on our shoulders and be responsible for whatever we do, good or bad. In Vivekananda's words "Arise Awake!" It is actually time to do that. For how long are we going to crib about the static nature of systems in our country. If u think u can do better why don't u come forward.

Lets take a simple example of a building, a building secretary is the head, takes care of all the formalities, the land taxes and lot of other stuff..What we do is for every single problem, call him up and start blasting off saying you don't do ur work properly. He is also a human, bearing the same kind of responsibilities as u do. Just because he has ventured to service, doesn't mean he has to be victimized. A more genuine example is a colony bus, a problem I face everyday. The roads in our area are undergoing construction so a normal travel of 20 minutes takes about 45 minutes now, and in the peak hours, an hour. You know that the traffic is bad, you know that the roads conditions aren't good but still when the bus reaches the stop and you have been waiting, you will start screaming at the poor driver. Then u will go on and say that the bus committee is bad and the people are corrupt. What corrupt, think about it, corrupt in delaying the bus. Words are like arrows cant be undone. So before you shower harsh words on others think about it, is it fair. We are all a part of some organisation or other, problems occur everywhere, instead of sitting and cribbing, why not lend a helping hand. OK you cant help, but at least co-operate.

The same lies with the country, it is nothing but a huge family. So fine, you cant make constitutional laws and work at that level but you can work at your level right? Your lane, your building, your community. Firstly your home. Harmony in small way will grow to a great extent. Nothing so great and hard in it,is it?
A little patience can do wonders! Dont u think so?

1 comment:

Radhika Bargavi said...

Yes dear, we do have to be extra careful with words. They are indeed like arrows! I'm getting reminded of a Kural that expresses the same meaning..

Theeyinaal suttapunn ullaarum
Aaradhey naavinaal sutta vadu


Catch up with you soon! :)