3 events in recent weeks have gotten me thinking on what is going to happen to our country going ahead.
A few weeks ago driving into town on a Sunday, not once but twice now I've seen people break a signal DESPITE there being a very visible cop right after the signal. Both times when the cop has tried waving the car down post the signal the driver has just driven right past the cop !
Last week I was at my gym and hearing an old man who didn't get his treadmill slot on time rant "I've never used my power of being on the club committee. Now I am going to do it so that you people realise you can't take me for granted, blah-blah"
And also a few weeks ago while waiting in line to get my niece one of those hand painted tattoo things at a restaurant.....other parents coolly pushing their lil kids ahead of the waiting line for the tattoo !
This scant disregard for the law, abuse of power and basic courtesy is going to come back to bite us in the ass.
It may seem like a little rant of mine of 3-4 incidents but we see it time and time again day after day........we Indians love to bend rules to the maximum and just be oblivious to others. Be it breaking signals and drinking and driving to always cutting lines at airports, insisting on talking on the phone in planes, honking on no-honking day, throwing trash on the road.......we just love it.
It's all fine right now when India is the "hot" growth story and our time is now and blah-blah.
But believe me once the growth and good times slow down....we'll have a tough time. Bec we'll have this HUGE population a majority of which have no discipline and then we will be too far down the road to correct ourselves.
Change with all bad habits takes time. And the time to start is now !
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May be allow me to correct the Header as "Indiscipline India's graveyard" It is true that discipline in this country is at its worst, but I am sure parents, elders,senior citizens, you and me must enforce discipline without any bias or prejudice, nothing should stop us from highlighting the indiscipline be it in public place or at home and in the very polite way that we could communicate we could change the way for better discipline, also I should mention that the strong assumption of an indisciplined individual to get away with indiscipline is the motivating factor. Every one must realise for a healthy living "DISCIPLINE" is more important than education, else the prupose of education is lost.....Ganesh Santhanam
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