Live Wire (My train of thoughts after watching RDB)

College days are the most ‘happening’ days of one’s life. College life is all about fun, masti and frolic. College brings about a paradigm shift in the individual as he/she matures from a teenager to a youth. These days are also the most important ones as it now when we make or break our career.
The youth of our country are caught in an identity crisis; aping the west on one side and coming to terms with our age old customs and traditions. This confused lot doesn’t know what it wants from life.
The youth of doesn’t realize the important role it can play in shaping the destiny of the country. It was the youth which once brought us freedom. It was at the forefront of the freedom struggle and national reformation. We have forgotten the contributions of forefathers and find more joy in swaying to latest numbers in discos, speeding away in flashy vehicles, gizmo crazy, shopping till dropping; high on attitude and high on life is our funda.
We are too much worried about our sick souls and don’t give a damn about anything else. We lack the idealism, enthusiasm and the attitude of the pre-independence era youth. In short we are too afraid to come out of our comfort zone.
Like Aamir Khan puts it in RDB….
“College key gate ke is par hum zindagi ko nachate hain aur us paar zindagi hume nachati hai.”
The i-generation (internet, i-pod) likes to play it safe and take only calculated risks.
Realistic portrayal of the young revolutionaries in the movie tugs at your heart strings. They (freedom fighters) were young 20 something’s when they decided to lay down their lives fighting for freedom of the country having complete faith in their ideals. There was never an iota of fear when they carried out their daring escapades.
You may say that they ideals they lived for are passé and extinct now. But friends take a look around your surroundings. There is poverty, unemployment, corruption, dowry and many other social evils.
We have this attitude of “the country is going to the dogs” and that anyone who sets out to change the system but the system ends up changing them.. That is crap guyz. The system can change you only when you are not strong enough and keep running for the comfort of mama’s lap on encountering just a single obstacle. Chuck these losers.

Youth is the greatest power on planet earth. History bears testimony to the fact that nations that have not embraced and utilized this power have become extinct in the sands of time.
Today in India there are thousands of people (youth) who can change the country with their beautiful open-minded hearts and their incredibly brilliant minds. They feel that there is no point in even trying because the current political and cultural environment is so much against them. But, if you are one of them, you right. You are the ones to help bring it. Don’t be afraid of the backlash. Stand tall and do what you know in your heart is right and just for all, not just what benefits a chosen few. You know ignorance can no longer rule the people. You know that blind ignorance can no longer a viable option. Don’t stand on the sidelines too lazy and scared to do anything about all of the ugliness going around you. Swim and fight your way to the centre of the vortex. Embrace the eye of the storm.

I stand here in the eye of the storm, turmoil and disorder around me. The vision is very clear here. I’ll do my part to empower this nation you do yours.