O’ Erebus

Now this is gonna be a little stirring (if you really see what i am writing)… And that is just one of the reason why i named the title as such.

For the uninitiated, Erebus in Greek mythology was the son of Chaos and represents darkness and underworld.

So what is this blog going to be about?? Well, this is about all of us and my perspective on that.. This blog is also very near to the anniversary of terrorists attack in Mumbai and I am gonna talk about that too..

From my perspective, we are a nation of Ji Hazoors… We don’t know how to say no and how to put things in right perspective. Either we would be too emotional about things or we would try to be over-practical and thus losing any practical approach. We have for a long time neither taken our own decisions nor tried to find solutions. Yes, we are a great nation, but that is because of the brave few who have taken decisions for others and taken all of us forward. For as long as I remember, we have had so few (true) leaders. However, we have been surrounded by people (or leaders) who are the roots of corruption, goondaism, hooliganism and we are the nurturers of such horrible, blood sucking trees…

With the present society we have created a dark world all around us which we love to detest. We have created education systems which help people understand and empathize corruption, we have created graduation colleges for hooligans and we have erected pillars of darkness all around us. We have educated our young ones on how to lie effortlessly, feed in corruption… and we crib about this.. (me included, although first portion is not true, yet!). Our society has taken a turn for the worst in last so many years with us bribing officials to do the right thing (amazingly, the bribe for the right process is always higher than for the wrong thing or equal, thus negating the motivation to do the right thing!), we getting divided easily on the issues of state-lines drawn by the very hooligans we hate, or region, or religion etc. etc. or we not taking any stand on wrong doings across our own neighborhood..

So where do we go from here? Where do we start, or should we start? Is there any need to start at all? Let us take this one head on.. If we don’t start are we really carrying the legacy of the great nation we bear on our shoulders? If we keep up these practices, the hooliganism is going to break all of us and we will be a party to our own destruction. We need to take the right step, to help our society, to help us and to help our future generations.

We need to help each other come out of this abyss, we need to work together to eradicate all the darkness around us..

(looks like this has been a lecture rather than an engagement, i will try and correct this in the next few!!)

-G