I wish I could say that I dream of a better world, where I am happy and content. A world that is free of conflict, hatred, bad opinions, crime, misery, and other stuff. A world where pollution could go away. Population could calm down a bit. Literacy rates could skyrocket. Good sanitation could and civic sense could become trendy. Maybe people will just stop spitting and pissing everywhere. Maybe the sanitation department goes out of its way to keep the damn water running in the public washrooms. Maybe people can calm down with the paan all the time. That delighful source of redness.
Just saying, there is much perfection that I crave in my dreams. Yet, there is nothing that seems achievable in reality. I wake up hating myself for existing in this place. I’ve tried my best to discuss this with people. There is nothing I can do about it, though. The level of rigidness seems to be really ingrained in society now. People seem to have nothing to do but to degrade themselves and their surroundings even more now. A person can be scolding another for speeding and akmost causing an accident, while he himself spits out his paan on the road. A guy can curse others for throwing their trash in front of them, only to dump that thing in the nearby river because there is already a lot of other stuff in that. Classic ‘Broken Window Theory’; if it’s bad, it’s okay to make it worse.
There is no hope for the world until they decide to mend their ways, because they really underestimate themselves when they believe that their ‘small’ actions don’t affect the world. The appreciation for all things good and useful would be a great start so that they don’t spit, piss & draw on them anymore. A promotion of education of all forms would serve as a great initiative. Teaching people the worth and use of the things that they destroy. Maybe drought-affected areas might teach people to respect water. Or some other way of showing them how leaving garbage on the streets will come back to bite them in the behind via disease.
As you sow, so you reap. What goes around, comes around. Let these be the biggest lessons for people to include in those vast but ineffective mounds of knowledge, which they brag about but never actually utilize. This world of ours, in peril, only serves as an example for the need for reality checks. Living in one’s own world of grandeur leaves the real world in ruins. And we are living in the real world. Those drugs don’t last forever either. So, let us reconsider some of choices. Even the smallest change today can help bring a better tommorow.
