I am munching on a 5 Rs packet of Parley G. This is all what i have been doing for the past 48 hours, after the ban on 500 and 1000 Rs notes(Demonetization).
Oh no this isn't about how bravely Modi runs the government, or how insensitive the government becomes sometimes. No this is about how the Ban on notes finally helped me see the true colours of this world.
India is in chaos outside.
People are angry and are divided into "pro-modi' & "anti-modi". Some feel all this is good but the problems could have been avoided a lot if there was a bit of planning. Then there are people(including me) who believe that this government is capable and they did the best possible. Now, how could have the innocent public be warned without warning the defaulters. But then again, world is divided into beliefs and opinions. Your opinion and reason is no less valid, than mine. After all right and wrong is always subjective.
Well yesterday i got a call from a family member asking me if i had a Bank account. He always behaved so poor and it is yesterday that i knew he had crores of rupees in cash. Oh he is really poor i came to a sudden realization yesterday. Not financially speaking, as he might find out a way to turn his black into white. But he was really really poor, in life. He had never really tasted life in its entirety i could guess now. All those times his 2 sons demanded a chocolate and he rebuked "paise kharch karne ke alawa kuch ata hai tumhe". I wish to call him back today and ask, 'what is all this money for?'. But i know his answer and the answers of millions of us.
Millions of us who enjoy living in our future, saving for our future, saving for our families future, saving for our children. millions of us who live in our past and all we know is to feel the pain, recall the inhuman treatment we all faced sometime in our life. Recall old times when we were poor and then again suddenly shift gears to future to save money and make the future beautiful (oh not beautiful, only wealthy). So you doubt the abilities of your children to earn money when they themselves grow up. You think no one could donothing without you? Do you really think, securing the future is so important that you destroy the present inturn.
I walked up to my mirror and looked at me, you can do it to right now after reading this. So i looked at me, and really looked at me with un-opinionated eyes. This complex body with such symmetry and such capabilities, this was me. I myself owned a body billion times more advanced than any technology i could own. Oh okay, so you have heard many crackheads talk this crazy. So right now is the time you getup and go see for yourself in the mirror and for god's sake, tell me you own a mirror, if not go buy one.
Isn't it happiness and not money, we all crave. I mean to see a grown up, respected individual behave so poor all these years, i feel i am missing a point. I see just no point in being angry, poor and miserable in the present to secure the future, as being angry and poor and miserable is going to be the root cause of destroying the future of your children.
I have finished my parle G packet and i have another 20 Rupees in my wallet. That is all i have to sustain myself for another week or so before which i have no stamina to stand in the queue. I know my friends laughed on the '20 Rs for week' too. Good morning.
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