Good is bad, Bad
is Good
What is Patriotism? Are those
only properties of Armed forces who live and die for the country? The
dictionary meaning of Patriotism goes like this – Loyalty, Nationalism,
Devotion etc. Hope by now we got some
meaning of the word patriotism and the topic which will be followed now.
How to be Loyal? To whom we need
to be loyal? What do devote? To whom to devote!!!??
Answer is “Myself”. I have to be loyal for myself; I need to
devote time for myself. If we brush up
our mind, our nursery and primary school teachers had thought us “Be good and do
good”. Certain things in our life will
fade away as the time goes, good taught and deeds preside in that. Being good citizen is the first and foremost
thing to be a great patriot that one can contribute to the country and it’s
very basic but lacking the same. Famous kannada point Shri Kuvempu has narrated
that “Yenadaru aagu, modalu manavanagu…” meaning, whatever you want to become,
go for it, but be human first. That
itself is patriotism. No need to go to
war field, neither create rockets / satellite nor even required to be
politician.
We are educated criminals who are
playing with law and money to save “self”.
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Honking on road is bad, we know, still we do
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Jumping signal is bad, we know, still we do
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Spitting on road is bad, we know, still we do
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Throwing garbage on road is bad, we know, still
we do
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Corruption is bad, politicians know, still they
do
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Giving and taking bribe is bad, we know, still
we do
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Being harsh to somebody is bad, we know, still
we do
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Selfishness is bad, we know, still we be
List can be still more, let me
not elaborate because ones ego hurts though “ego is bad, we know, but still we
keep it”.
Have you noticed the word “Self”
is mentioned in double quotes? Yes, it
has a special message here. The word “Self” ordinarily mean to protect my
interests in this world. Going one step
forward, if I am right in analyzing things, the trigger for “Self” is really
not ourselves rather the society.
Society, be it a friend, family, colleague who declare themselves and
may acts as Trendy, intellectual, Confident (Confidence is good, but people
become so aggressive and misinterpret it as confidence) put across a wrong bench
mark to the society and we try to compete for that. Need Example?
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From the schooling and parents, it has been taught
us that boozing is bad. We have social
elements acts so trendy, intellectual and confident that they turn the table on
the other side and say not boozing is a crime. They ban you from their friend
circle; they are so intelligent enough to judge Mahatma Gandhi and Dry day to
make as Fun Day. Purposefully want to
booze on 2nd Oct and take it as a pride!!
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Drink and drive is bad, but these so called
intellectual, confident and trendy people create a hype that only a real Man
can perform this and takes others life most of the time rather than they get
hurt with that. Most unfortunate is
that, these people will be freed with the money power and again they celebrate
a treat with friends to fun and take a pride of it. Obviously, other person of the society gets
influenced
Before going
further, let me recap the chain of thoughts here
Friends,
individually we all are good. There is a
bit of dust layered on us. The dust of
wrong path, the dust of wrong expectations and the dust of wrong
competition. We just need to work on
those aspects to clean that layer of dust.
This dust is layered just may be from past 5-6 years. It’s very easy to cleanse now rather this
become a rigid layer on our society which even can’t wash with an acid. It’s the time, do or die / now or never
situation. It’s up to us to give a
better society to our next generation or see them struggling.
Wrong Path: What I meant here is, being a human
first. Respect every individual either
you know them or not. Not to hurt
anybody. It require really brave heart
for being human and respecting others.
Take the pride of being good human and not for the wrong paths. Dust it away and be a real human being. It might be a strange feeling at first, you
may lose temper by seeing others taking wrong path, you may tempted to take
wrong paths (as we are addicted from past 5-6 years), but its absolutely okay…
you lose, let the wrong win for that moment.
That will be only a win of the moment but you will be the winner and
four front of the society by losing that path.
Commit, devote yourself to the good deeds. This is what a nation wants,
this is what a patriotism means. Win the
hearts of the society, which will be the life time win rather than taking wrong
path for the momentary win. Need an example:
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You would have heard of frequent saying “work
smart” to climb up the corporate ladder.
It’s a dust my dear friends, work hard, work hard for yourself, work
hard for the company and the team. We
have become so conscious to put efforts on smartness and had become over smart
and end up in taking wrong paths and short cuts.
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Heard of planning retired at the age 40. It’s a
dust. World not stop at 40 years of your
age. Another our primary school teaching
is “slow and study wins the race”. There
is no fancy to take retirement at 40 years becoming Senior Manager of the
company with high blood pressure and diabetes attached to it.
We have not come
a long way on this wrong path still my dear friends. Still now we have time to go back and
revive. But this stage is crucial to
take decision. It’s now or never.
Wrong Expectations: Followed by
wrong path, we are setting some unrealistic expectations to our society and
generation. We expect ourselves to be
treated as god in a crowd, we expect people on the other side to listen to us
but at the same time we don’t give respect to their words, we expect our
culture and religion to be on top etc endless expectations. But you would know, “expectation leads to
disappointment”. As the world is turning
to be “good is bad and bad is good”, the disappointment is happening to the
person who is at receiving end. The
expected person is getting his expected fulfill at the cost of a person
receiving end who is socially, psychologically, physically paying for his
success. But “who cares, my job is done, my objective is met, my boss is happy”
attitude is the dust. If you are getting
a smile on your face while reading this, you might either have this attitude
which needs to be dusted or experienced such instances.
Wrong Competition: it’s a
competitive world, you need to compete with others for existence, might is
right, survival for the fittest… scrap these things friends, these are
dust. We are human beings, social
animals not cruel forest animals to showcase those might is right and survival
for the fittest. We read these
statements in our schoolings in the subject which is either available at biology
or geography referring to animal eating another animal for its existence. But now we are implying that on our society,
what a paradox! Are we heading to become social animal to real cruel animals?
Friends,
competition is good only when it is competed with self. Compete in good aspect, compete yourself
being better character from today to tomorrow, compete to be in better
financial position with yourself but not with your friend who is drawing higher
package. Abc Company to compete with its
own financial year to next financial year growth, but not with Xyz Company. Students have to compete on their own
academic, increase knowledge power but not with others.
Before I
conclude this with a diagram, I would like to emphasis on one thing. Our parents have taken out their blood, heart
and soul to groom us a good character person for this society. They have done their part and it took years
to build such a fantastic characters of what we are. Let’s not leave it to go in vain. It’s a disrespect to our parents.
Its in our
hand to stay as “Good is bad – Bad is good”
Or
To make our
society and country back to “Good is Good – Bad is Bad”
Thank you for your time in
reading this article
Phani Prasad Bhaskar
