Ever since i started going to school, or maybe even before that, the word "discipline" has been like a staple diet for me and for many more kids who grow up listening to verses from their parents, teachers, elders that we need to be disciplined in order to be a good human being. We are taught to make timetables and follow them, things like, early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy, wealthy & wise. Right from putting the school bag at the right place, to eating meals on time, coming back home before its dark to finishing home work and then going to bed by 9. Seems like a roller-coaster ride in itself. Is this what we call discipline?
My question is not whether the present generation has grown up to be a disciplined lot but whether the "so-called" preachers of discipline can be called "disciplinarians" in themselves? It is well said, one must practice what they preach. But do we? We don't leave any single opportunity to spread our so called "gyaan" to people around us but when it comes to our own self, we don't even consider it a passing reference and do what we feel is right.
To take a small example, more than 75% of us would never make the effort of looking out for a dustbin or a garbage can to throw the leftover of the huge amounts of eatables that we indulge in right we step out of our homes. We find it more convenient to throw it on the road or outside the window while in the car or leave it in the park and move ahead. This attitude is very synonymous with our country, who seems to be ignoring and leaving behind the problems as they were and thriving to move ahead. But can we ever move ahead like this? Won't something always hold us back?
On my visit to
It is true that i kept losing patience at every step, owing to my own laid back attitude but at the end of my trip i did learn that somewhere each one of us has to change our attitude within ourselves than to go about advocating a mass change programme.
3 comments:
Nice blog Spriha. If only a sizeable portion of the Indian population mirrors your thoughts, our country would be a much better place to live in, frankly! Pretty sure a lot of the present younger generation does have these thoughts in their head. As you say, it only takes the extra step to keep implementing it at every stage.
Well Spriha, what you have written is mainly your experience of what you saw in London in terms of discipline,patience and cleanness. Perhaps this you will find only in UK or in other western countries. You know when the britishers ruled all over the world, they had a typical bureacratic attitude towards their colonies while within their heart they were out and out systematic and discipline. They would clean their own house in england but when they went to rule over the colonies became LAAT SAHEB and in the long run ruling for more than 200 years in India completely wrecked the whole society and the social system.They made sure that the colony is not allowed to develop and learn anything positive from them. They left the legacy of burecracy and babudom and a clear distinction between HAVE AND HAVENOTS. Infact i feel the poverty, corruption discrimination has been a part of their legacy.
In UK it is common that a member of house of lords or even senior bureacrat travels by public transport but can you imagine this in INDIA.Moreover the law abiding agency is also so strict that no one dares to break the discipline which may be due to their breeding up from begginning or may be also due to hefty fines put on them. Today was the news that Andrew Flintof a great cricketer was called to the court for overspeeding...do you think sachin tendulkar or mahender singh Dhoni can be fined...infact they are provided with z class security.
So the question is not this that in India we have not inculcated that disciplne but we dont have the fear of Law of the Land. I n india we are prouud if we are able to save paying income tax while here it is a matter of pride for them that they are paying TAX for the development of the nation.
Since this was your first visit and a short one, it is good you have seen the positive side of discipline and your blog will help to ponder over the fruitfulness of Discipline....but i am sure the impact of british rule has been so hard that it has entered in our genes and one doesnt know whether it will at be gone.
But one should be optimistic, I am sure more and more people will come and have exposure they will change at least if not them their second generation.
But i am happy you have chosen a good issue...hope their are many readers on this.
The youths are getting smarter enough dear. India is, obviously trying to reach the summits and it takes a lot of time for that. England got free from colonial rule in 18th centuary while India in 20th Centuary. Now the gap is of two centuaries and I think that India has had made enough progress on that part.
It's not that I disagree to your thoughts; I also think that there's a need to have a sense of practicality, which obviously we're lacking in the present scenario. We're not at all organized and I'm very much optimistic that very soon one day we'll be the most powerful nation.
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