Mumbai - Terrorism
Princess September | 30 November 2008, 12:03amThis is not the first time, we may not be the first country this has happened to. It's not the attack from outside that makes our blood boil. It's the fact that our memories are so short. WE FORGET. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START. HAVE WE DONE ANYTHING FOR OUR COUNRTY, BESIDES BUILDING OUR OWN CAREERS AND SMOOTHING OUT OUR OWN LIVES? Can every one of us say, we have done our best in preventing such horrific incidents occurring? There are heroes who have lost their lives. But we can't let the 'gross negligence' that has crept into our system, our way of life, be pushed under the carpet.
Let's stop comparing our tragedy with that of another country, as though we need to take a cue from another country, in knowing how to lead our country, how to be as a country. Where is our identity as a country? Why compare it to a 9/11? Does it get horrendous proportion, only if we compare it with a 9/11?
It's heartening to note that finally, finally, people across the country have awoken to the oneness of our country. Will this last? Will we love the differences that make us, a special nation - a nation of multiple races or will we keep finding reasons for breaking up our country?
Where the mind is without fear - Famous words from Rabindranath Tagore - that's what we all need to awaken into:
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake"
Stop compromising at every step of the way in our lives. Paying extra to get a movie ticket, to an auto driver to get home, to the police man on the road, to the guy who fixes your telephone at home, to each and everyone in our system. Ask questions? What does the government do with the money they collect from us as sales tax, income tax? We deserve to know. Are we good citizens? If all of us, went out and did this, we wouldn't be in this state. Why wait for someone to take the lead. We make the government. We choose. Let's choose a new path. If we all put our minds to it, we can find a way.
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