Jai Sai Master!
Life goes on!
Life goes on!
Life goes on without any hitch for everyone (or it seems), because we all learned how to maneuver around the "obstacles". We started "accepting" the obstacles as noises in life, which we can not any way handle. Because of this, we live, mostly, to the diktats of others. Even though, we may say no to this, just by looking any one event in our daily life can show how dependent we are on others. Starting with the toothpaste we use, to the soap, to the food we make, for everything we depend on "outside" support. While the same was not the scene in our villages few years back, current "reforms" changed the total scenario and ensured the "bottom of the pyramid" is also impacted sufficiently to the "dependency syndrome".
There was a time, when the people took a twig of neem tree for cleaning the teeth, and home-made bath powder for bathing. Local khadi for the dresses and home-grown veggies for the food. But today, entire country is slowly getting in to the grip of "modernization ghost", which makes people so dependent that we are ever afraid of protesting any thing that is impacting us. Be fuel prices, or cap on LPG, we just do not bother. Infact, we brush aside the same and keep moving ahead. We have no idea, how a small change will impact every sphere of our life, putting pressure on us to ensure, we stay inside the fear-desire cycle. We do not think for a moment when we try to buy our clothes today. Anything less than 1000 rupees is cheap. But consider the so called bottom of the pyramid, who are getting pressed down further due to the weight all these pressures are putting. In the name of flat world, we opened up Indian shores too fast for those who are trying to push their products deeper in to the roots without bothering about the consequences. Example is GM food. While we talk about the eco-system on one side, we talk about genetically modified plants to ensure the eco system can not thrive for lack of food. What an irony? Who cares?
Those who try to go against the tide are termed mad or the number is so miniscule, the voices are not cared for. As the reforms juggernaut keeps moving ahead, the scary thought that we are going to be controlled remotely by few powers-be crosses my mind, which made me wake-up to do what is necessary- work towards reduction of such dependency. Either by growing my own veggies in my back yard, looking for simplifying the needs that drive me towards a super-store, reducing the movement which require costly fuel etc.. While, I am not in a position to say, hurrah- I started, I definitely am happy to accept whole-heartedly the thought that we need to do something quickly.
I am happy to share what I am feeling. How about you, while your life goes on?
Jai Sai Master!!
