The Butterfly Effect

If you think that it’s going to be about a yet another very stupid subject (like my previous posts), with all kinds of very stupid words, written again in a very stupid tone, your God just saved you. This post simply compares our country with some of the so-called developed countries. Now, is it going to be boring? I will make sure that it is not. Because what I am going to compare is the mentality of the people of these two almost different worlds.
Now, what could have motivated me of writing such a weird kind of piece? The answer: the German roads! Ehh… why? Because they are very very very clean. Now, probably you have an idea of the thousand-times-told-story-kinda-boring-and-predictable things that would follow, but I humbly request you not to stop reading.
From the very childhood, we are taught in the subjects of Moral Science and EVS (I still don’t know its full form though), that we should keep our country clean. So we mug it up hard. We should keep our country clean… We should keep our country clean… We should keep our country clean… and then we go out of the school, buy a Centre-Fresh, throw the wrapper on the road, run back home, spit the chewing gum outside our house and enter shouting, ‘Mom, we should keep our country clean!’ A reply of the same volume level hits our ears, ‘Better keep your house clean first and then think of the country, you useless creature!!’
And we grow up like that. The sense of responsibility lacks from the very beginning.
We live as ‘I, Me, Myself.’
‘I am leaving this hotel today anyways, so why bother about using the toilets in a clean manner.’ Yes, that happens.
‘If I throw this one coffee cup into the dustbin, the other thousand coffee cups lying around won’t fly back into the dustbin on their own and a single me cannot make the country clean.’ Yes, we think like that.
Fine. I don’t intend to make this a long monotonous school-principal’s speech. All I want to say is this.
Forget about the poor illiterate people who don’t even know the meaning of cleanliness or country. Forget about the rich illiterate people who don’t even know how to run the country even when they have the power. Forget about those rich literate people who don’t bother to look outside the windows of their imported cars because they don’t have time from being intimate with their darling well-dressed dogs. Don’t expect anything from them. Think about yourself and how you can bring about a change.
Bring about a change? WTF!
No buddy, I am not going to ask you to clean up the roads or join NGOs or put up awareness posters or to do something great for your country, neither am I going to ask you not to go and live abroad.
All that I urge for is that please keep the wrapper of the chocolate that you ate in your pocket till the time you find a dustbin even when the friend who is walking along with you has already thrown her/his wrapper on the road and is laughing at you.
May be you are a laughing stock for the first couple of times, then you are not paid any heed to the next couple of times (because it has been assumed that you are nuts), but if that person has any kinda self respect, a day will come when the same dustbin will be blessed with two wrappers instead of one!
And then, in the next say at least 70 years that you live for more, there would be millions of iterations like these that would result in may be very very slowly obtained but yes, some positive solutions. And that’s how the Chaos Theory or the Butterfly Effect works, right?
And then, you can dream of at least dying in a cleaner India! =)
With that, I sign off.