Being "out of touch" (I would say) with realities in India, I could only image the proportion of frustration for a common man. But they are acceptable. But I have always thought, every person writting a blog or leaving comment wants a "beautiful" country and clean city. But have we taken a moment to step back and see what mistakes do we make and correct ourselves first?
I had (yeah..past tense) a working iPhone until recently when I went into the swimming pool with the smart (or not so smart) phone still in my shorts pocket. The way Apple discovers a phone has been water damaed is with the help of a litmus like sensor which turns pink or red depending on acidity on contact with liquid. Apple does not cover damages due to liquid. So I was searching deliberately for answers in online forums to get that back to life. Out of may be 40-50 forums I have been in, I found 2 or 3 messages in all when they said paint the sensor to white and give it back to apple! Brilliant!
Immediately, I thought what would have happened if it was in India! May be the first step will be to try paint that sensor white and only when that fails try other options. In one of the forum, another member had left a reply to the "original idea", "Its because of people like you, we are paying the cost for the device that costs twice as much in the first place". "Very true". Aren't we paying the cost for all non-voters? Aren't we paying the price of delay in travel times or congesstion in the road, because someone wanted to take illegal U-Turn in the middle of the road?
The lack of self descipline and being true to their conscience is what is lacking.
Imagine, if each one of us follow the self descipline of going to a poll booth and voting. Wouldn't that make the difference? Or may be a everyday scenario of stopping at all red signals on the road (even bearing the abuses of the motorist behind)! May be it's time.
