It might sound as an exaggerated thought but I still have always believed that if you are born in INDIA, you are competent enough to survive in any part of the world; physically, mentally and even logically. I mean what Life means to most people in other parts of the world is to ‘live peacefully and die naturally’. But to INDIANS, life isn’t as simple a theory as that. It has to have some hairpin bends and some devastating experiences to make you realize in the end that u lived a complete life.
In every part of the world from the birth itself, every child is taught that ‘Life is not a bed of roses’. But in India we perceive this statement damn seriously. I mean in the rest of the world after getting this statement one would assume “Life is not easy, lets do our part and try to make it as easy as possible” But in India we interpret it something like that- “Life is not easy. So if one is living a simple peaceful life, lets carry out our duties in the name of GOD and make his life as hard as possible because that’s how it is supposed to be”. We are taught to concentrate on our own work but trained to always be aware of what others are doing in our vicinity. We are taught to be contented with what almighty has bestowed upon us but trained to envy others’ success. This eventually gives us mental strain and pressure and keeps us inspired to achieve what our neighbors did. From the past few centuries this strain has been engraved to our psychology so immaculately that now we don’t even think of avoiding it. And if for a day or two we mistakenly stay happy with our life, we see it as an unwelcome phenomenon and start doing something to change that.
Since childhood, we are taught a few very good ways to handle pressure but even better ways to stay pressurized are imbibed within us since birth. When the personal issues to strain ourselves fall slightly short of fulfilling the requirements, we have a whole lot of national issues in reserve to keep ourselves worried. We take a cricket match defeat as an assault on our self-pride. We discriminate in the name of religion, state, caste and worship God for a peaceful society. We might not be deterred from making some easy money whenever possible but when somebody goes on an anti-corruption hunger strike, we find it a noble cause. We complain government. We complain society. We complain everything around us. And all these things we do in one single life. Amazing..!! Isn’t it..??
