If the world knew as much about genocide as they do about Glee characters, the world would be a better place.
If people were as passionate about child rights as they are about catching Hangover 2, I would respect them more.
If students with strong political opinions and great communication skills actually used their knowledge to do something for society, rather than just participate in MUNs to create impressive resumes, I would respect them more.
If people would just get their asses off Twitter and their mouths off Cappuccinos, and really do something rather than idly commenting on superficial realities, my generation could really do something great with their lives. Because they aren't dumb. They're just lazy and unmotivated. And that is what gets to me.
Of course, everyone has different priorities, and I don't expect anyone to have the same expectations from life as I do. The fact that people are too lazy to make their own life "priority" is the issue of contention.
The rains are here.
Slums are being flooded, women are being abused in brothels and children are dying as we speak.
It really is time to get out of that comfortable sofa cushion, and do something with your life.
I know for a fact, that I wouldn't want a BMW to be the legacy I leave behind.
If people were as passionate about child rights as they are about catching Hangover 2, I would respect them more.
If students with strong political opinions and great communication skills actually used their knowledge to do something for society, rather than just participate in MUNs to create impressive resumes, I would respect them more.
If people would just get their asses off Twitter and their mouths off Cappuccinos, and really do something rather than idly commenting on superficial realities, my generation could really do something great with their lives. Because they aren't dumb. They're just lazy and unmotivated. And that is what gets to me.
Of course, everyone has different priorities, and I don't expect anyone to have the same expectations from life as I do. The fact that people are too lazy to make their own life "priority" is the issue of contention.
The rains are here.
Slums are being flooded, women are being abused in brothels and children are dying as we speak.
It really is time to get out of that comfortable sofa cushion, and do something with your life.
I know for a fact, that I wouldn't want a BMW to be the legacy I leave behind.
4 comments:
You know I was watching snatches of Wake Up Sid in our mess room in the half hour we get off for lunch and the scene was Sid telling Aisha about the Mumbai monsoon, calling the rains magical. He says, "Log complain karte rehte hain, floods ke baare main, but I just love the rains."
And I just got it. For Sid in his Peddar Road bungalow, with aspirations to a Porsche, the rains are about chai and garam pakode served by his teenage man-servant.
Not for him, the flooded slums, the death-grip of snail-pace traffic. No, not for him, wards and wards filled with patients of malaria, leptospirosis, gastroenteritis, dengue and chikungunya.
I thought Mumbai didnt discriminate. But I guess the 26th July rains proved one thing. God must be a townie!
Hey, come on, what wrong did the BMW do? ;-)
You know what the sad part about this write up is,there are dozens of blogs saying the same thing in 100 different ways,i think our generation has realized changing the world around them can't happen at a debate or MUN,It is "what has to be done" which remains the question that has to be answered...The IAC movement of Jan lokpal fame gathered ppl across india in its movement against corruption and we wait in the hope that once it does get passed(bleh)what we fail to understand is the biggest weapon of tackling corruption or for that matter anything "bureaucratic" is the RTI....so the next time ure complaning about why we can't make the difference,file an RTI,do it.
this is my favorite post by you. i wish more people of age got their asses in place and did something significant with their life. i feel so insignificant my self sometimes. there is so much to do. and so less time. i wonder how still people of our age are so relaxed and clueless about the world.
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