Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Catharsis!!!

It has been hectic international travels ever since the the year started. If it was Belgium in January , February - March was destined to singapore while April had pie of Honkong & Taiwan. And all travels had one thing in common "ALONE all the way" . While i had my own perception of being alone like many others of the same type as we are together in that too !!! At times this lonliness gets on to your nerves especially when you are in the hotel room and contemplating on what to eat or missing out the long distance calls, however it has a kick ass times too!! As this allows me to reach out to new people, new culture , check out different stuff be it food or places. If i take few leaves out of my journey there is lot that can be mined and i am sure this is one is definitely useful if i get into the bureaucratic or political line of business , though originally had the intent but didn't seem to materialize at all!. The intent with which you absorb things around you is greatly dependent on how has been the individuals environment in his formative years or even during his educational/ professional / volunteer stints. Thats why i say my neurons have a valuable information which if properly mined can actually replace an "ED" to "ING" with regards to devlopment of the economy is concerned! As one thing thats keeps me bugging evertime i visit these countries the way these countries have leapt while we were all the same when the civilization has begun. I don't regret with what the situation we have today as we have had made a good progress walking while others running (as we always believed it better to stand up and drink water than to run for the milk) but we could have been much better than today. With the rising inflation where every nation is feeling the heat i am not sure where we are heading towards as things can only get worse from here and we are still in the "ing" stage while others can relatively cope up with the situation. But are we content with being better off when compared to few counterparts? I always felt we could be much better as the places i have been had a common feeling that the Indians are intelligent, hard working and humble probably true for majority of the pool and yet these so called adjectivites are helping in the growth of most of the counters parts - the so called brain drain that has been happening over the years and is bound to happen in coming years, who if had been effectively retained and efficiently utilized, this place would have been definitely a better place. For a place to be termed "better" than being content with saying "good" we needed visionaries who transform things for the betterment of the public than to top the chart busters in the Forbes List!. Every time we are vowed by the infrastructure among these small countries but why could we achieve only in small pockets? Why are today there are places in India where commutation is a problem? why are few villages still devoid of electricity? Do we blame the government? Or the people who made the government? Or the bueracrats ? We have the world's richest persons yet we have the poor becoming more poor? We have a million plus organizations working for the underpriviliged in india and their lives are as worse as they could be yet we could do nothing? Are we so self centered in our approach as we worried about only self and to a certain extent to our family only? Do we have actually time to think about others than blaming the concerned who have to improve the lives of these? Do we have a solution to make this the best place to live ? May be yes or may be not. May be we are just happy with the way things are and don't want to come out of the stereotypes. Well these are few of the many random thoughts that keeps my mind tickling when away from my place and instead of letting them through some piece of art or music i am using this medium though not sure if the "title" really makes sense for they are the random emotions always trying to bulge out of my Brain!

PS: I realized i left this post in the edit mode for more than a month! Not sure how many are still under the wraps!