In light of a heinous terrorist act yesterday in Pakistan, one should stop and think of individual duties towards the society rather embarking on blame game. All what blaming others achieves is fuelling the hatred further into today’s Global Society and continuation of conflicts all around the globe.
I am an Indian born global citizen, and am ashamed of how hypocritical our people are, including me. We wear the most expensive clothes and give hardly anything to charity; we have the most lavish parties, while the poor can’t even afford a day’s meal; we love making our homes as western as possible, while people don’t even have a roof on their head! We are running around drunkard wanting things(being materialistic) rather being content with our needs.
The fundamental question I ask is what we really expect from the system! The only difference between us and our politicians are that we do not have access to the presidential palace nor do we have billions in our Swiss accounts but at the end of the day our political masters are a multifold reflection of us. It is only us who are to blame to start with.
Without further generalizing, as an Indian (or in this instance whole subcontinental thinking) one tends to think majority of us have developed a strange habit of never putting our hands up to help others rather just complain. Having said so, let me be clear that I am one of you, I don’t help as much I should or could, when it comes to giving my 100%, I have conveniently adjusted to the feeling of helplessness, infect revel in it, and in order to always shift the blame further commentate on our system by stating after all what could you do with a government/ bureaucrats like that?......this is what we call passing the buck.
We are so-called largest functioning democracy; shouldn’t we be able to do something more than what we are actually doing, and when it comes to blaming the government, I believe we are the one who chose these leaders by voting for them, and because they are from within us, so infect they are us!
Hence, my recommendation is, first look deep down within ourselves and try to locate the weakness in us, before we go and attack the system and its masters. Because, they are laughing at all of us – and saying that look at those idiots, they are the one who voted for us.
"Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya KoyeJo Munn Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye" St. Kabir
Translation
I searched for the crooked, met not a single onewhen searched myself, "I" found the crooked one
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