I always thought revolutions are made for bringing about long awaited changes in the society. I was also of view that revolutions are done by common man under the leadership of some uncommon leader.
Sometimes I wonder who are these uncommon leaders who alone can influence the life and thoughts of so many people? How do they tend to bring about changes at such wide levels? Sometimes, I also thought of studying their photographs, thinking that someday I will be able to find something in common in them and may be in future, I will be able to figure out the leaders of the future.
Foolish???? Isn’t it???
Now, I also think that it is foolish to think like that but still the quest is on and the question is what do these people have in common which makes them uncommon.
You may be thinking that why I am writing on this topic today??? No news, no anniversary, no national day not even a modest debate anywhere then how this topic came up???
Let me tell you that what you are thinking is right, but today, when I went for shopping, I met one Inspector of Delhi police, his sharp words of criticism compelled me to think about the future of my country.
He said, “Rules & regulations are made for common people and not for those who are sitting at the top levels”.
He went on saying that the thought of brining about a paradigm shift in the system is a nice way of keeping oneself busy.
He further added that any changes made by common man in the system cannot sustain for long, let it be the best of its type. It will revert back to its original position after sometime.
It is only the feeling in the individual which gets satisfied, but for your satisfaction of few moments why to lose so much of valuable time and energy. Also, by doing so the individual remains disturbed for longer period of time as these activities require lot of time, energy, money and above all patience. The revolutionary’s family life also gets disturbed and loss of mental peace too is a common phenomenon.
Hence, it is better not to try for such changes. But still if someone’s ego is not satisfied then he should try to get at that level where he could live peacefully and lavishly.
By reading the above thoughts you must have imagined how degraded our society have become in its thoughts? I want to ask each one of us, do we want to live in such a society? Do we want to make a society which is selfish in nature? Do we want to live again the life we had during British times?
After much of logical debates, heated arguments and lots of learning from elderly people, I am of view that those who make revolutions are true in their character, strong in their moral behaviour and have a different kind of thought process.
In extremes too they do not forget their ethics. They look towards the things from its logical point of view. For them cast, creed, religion, nationality noting matters. They belong to that group of people which does not belongs to any country or nation but it belongs to this world. They are strong believers of universal brotherhood.
Their strong ethics combined with iron determination and almost no desire for worldly pleasures is the key to what the common people call ‘their success story’. For them, someone else’s happiness is their own satisfaction.
In this path, their resistance to divulge from their moral ethics, ability to follow the logical reasoning, capacity to withstand all odds & the feeling of world brotherhood keeps them moving ahead every day.
I accept that I am not a teacher, not a leader, not a religious guru, not a lawyer. I don’t even have great command over English language. But I know that I am the common man and I am sure that each one of us thinks the same.
Therefore, I dare to request, each one of us, to give our children, strong moral and ethical character. So that once again, we can see our nation (if not this world) being called as ‘the golden bird’ of older times.
