We are politically, socially and mentally bankrupt

The power of youth is extraordinary here. The intellect of youth is immense. The zeal to do something is enormous. That energy is brimming and ready to explode. But who shall channel this energy? The youth itself or the experienced personnel alive? There has to be some reason somewhere. The political and social giants have more than enough intellect about the subject matter, but when a common man will understand his role, then only these positive energies will channelize properly. Otherwise, 10 out of 100 will smile and the rest will go to Janter Manter and will find out in some time that their visit was useless.

The first reason is we are politically bankrupt. Today, even a school going child may understand politics (a bit). The newspapers and news are full of politics and yet we see dissatisfaction. The bankruptcy is not only because of inactive leaders, but it is also a lot to do with our own understanding towards them. We hear the word ‘Bhakts’ so often when people troll each other. Truly speaking, most of us are Bhakts of our own parties. BJP, Congress, AAP or any other party. We want quick solutions and actions by the government and government people only. We will often come across so many aged intellects that will keep on murdering a party because in 1886 something has happened. If we will see around every one of us support, every wrong of our party, if not all right. The very recent example is AAP. We accept lies, wrong actions because someone else is already doing it or we think they do it more often. There is a big bankruptcy in our political thoughts or we might be politically wrong in our behavior. The increasing impatient inside us is resulting in this bankruptcy and we will pay much more for this. We are still a party thinker rather than an individual thinker who looks at who do the work and who don’t because in reality we don’t even know who do the work. We only believe in one who claims and successfully defend (using words or money or some blind supporters) this.

Secondly the social bankruptcy. This is also something that we want ourselves. We speak lies to our parents, friends in hope of getting the gold and when it backfires we blame the society. It is still startling that if the arrange marriage is considered as rape to some then they actually mean that they want to get raped by their own choice, i,e in the name of lust, oh, I mean love because there are people who love twice, thrice, four times and more with all pleasures that they can have. The real problem with us is our uncontrollable frustrations. We want to fly high but often fails because we stand alone and then we start blaming others. This nature of us is backfiring. We see the problem of one and then generalize it for everyone which is so pathetic at our level. There are successful arrange marriages and successful love marriages, but we often remember the failed one and start becoming more frustrated in our lives. Socially, we only want to use people as a stepping stone to success and when it happens to us, we try to become a hero and stand against them. Also, when we see Television we rarely find any motivating serial or about the literature greats or people doing good work and how that work is helping our country. This lack of transparency is acting as a mist of disbelief and frustrations. We see in cities, joint families are rare. This social bankruptcy cost our country more than anything. We are unknowingly generating more pain than happiness around us.

The third and major one is the mental bankruptcy. Most of our youth believes ‘I can’t do it on my own’. We think that money, politics and networking are the only keys to success. So instead of working hard towards our own passion and dreams, we try to rope in more people illegally or bribe schools or make political connections. There is no denying that networking is required but the most important things are passion and determination. The show off nowadays is more than the determination. With the companies tagging ‘ Smart work not hard work’, young children believe that studying for 8 hours is a myth, you have to be smart enough. But those poor chaps do not understand that unless you will not work hard for understanding the concepts, you will never become smart. This is the ugliest bankruptcy we are in currently. This disbelief might become more in the future. This is one of the reasons why the quality of education is coming down. This mental bankruptcy clubbed with the management failures are resulting in the downfall of India in sports or education or for the matter of fact in any field. In colleges, schools and other educational institutes, the major misunderstanding that stays is – Students study to earn money. This has changed our understanding of studies and we look at it with this glass. We can see that even after having so many enthusiastic individuals, India is not up in many sports. We can leave our parents in the name of love, but can’t force them or make them understand about our own passion. This is because we on our own are not determined enough.      

To sum it up, we still have to go a long way in terms of understanding. Just because a family forces a girl or a boy into arrange marriage doesn’t mean arrange marriages are a waste. Similarly, numerous girls uses a boy and numerous boys uses a girl and it doesn’t mean that love doesn’t exist. This at times shows that mentally we are not creative enough to solve problems that arises at that instant. If we are so emotionally hurt, then why don’t we solve a problem by working on it rather than blaming others and teaching others to blame. Politics will not change in a year or so only if we will not change. The smart work and hard work go hand in hand. We have to be smart enough to choose a field of interest and then work hard to excel in it looking at the qualities required. Politically, we are still in party mode and this has only created chaos because no party is completely clear or good. Share good things about your party, but ridicule it for bad too. And the foremost thing we have to do is to become mentally stable to understand the situations, people and parties. Our decisions affect our lives and the lives of people around. In turn, it affects the whole of the country. We can always blame others or luck for the wrong things, but then it is our decision to entertain the wrong or the right. So there will be no magical wand, to solve our problems. We have to raise our understanding of the issues, come together to solve them and chose the right people at the highest level for the implementation.