I Am NOT Anna.. I Am ME!!

"True bliss does not come from outside, it comes from inside, from serving the people."
- Anna Hazare

Reaching into the heart of any one person is hard enough a task to do these days. People are so deceitful, corrupted and shamelessly vile. And anybody who is able to reach out to the masses has my immense respect. It is tough these days to build a voice of your own, and have your opinions be heard and be quoted. Be identified and agreed upon.  We rarely find anybody these days who actually thinks what he says and actually mean what he says. Everybody has their own agenda. Everybody has their own little propaganda to fulfill. Everybody twists and twirls his own words for what seemingly is the greater good, his good. It would be utterly stupid of us if we blindly follow anybody’s footsteps if we aren’t sure where they are going to lead us personally. Is this future that they are promising us, really that good. Can anyone in today’s day and age be such a visionary to bring us, a nation of more than a billion people, all collectively to a brighter tomorrow??

All this is too good to be true….

We as a nation are still largely under the spell of the Wise Old Man in white khaddar. Mr. M. K. Gandhi and his comrades cast it on us during the Raj. And it’s been so ever since. Don’t get me wrong, I really am eternally grateful for them for giving us the freedom to live as we wish, unbounded to anyone. But as  much as I relish in the joys of my independence, I also am disheartened at the price that we are all paying till this day. We have been intoxicated with the prospect of not thinking for ourselves. We have become addict to the very notion of the Wise Old Man on the television being capable of knowing what is best for us and making decisions on our behalf. There hasn’t been a single Wise Young Man who has had the mass’s attention so single-handedly and unquestionably like him, and by the looks of it never will. People are mesmerized by what these knowledgeable aged souls have to say. This person knows all the answer. Age bring experiences, which in turn imparts precious wisdom. Yes, I know that. But does that mean the young are dumb? Don’t we know what is right and what is not? What about our principles? What about our individuality?!