Thoughts like corruption, cribbing, common sense, morals etc. But then these words are the most overused & abused in day to day life. Everyone has their own version for these words as per convenience.
For e.g. Traffic cop giving you a ticket for jumping the signal. You will crib that everyone does this in India then why give me a ticket? Some other day instead of giving 100 bucks as official penalty, you will quietly pass on 50 bucks to same cop. He will be happy to have those 50 bucks going in his pocket.
Now the same scenario needs to be looked from a different perspective in which you are a third party. You will say sitting on your cushioned sofa at home that this is corruption & India is corrupted. There is no future of this country & blah blah. But is not it very convenient to just avoid doing some introspection.
Agreed everyone wants to avoid any kind of unease which comes their way by following rules & guidelines. But these very small acts are no different from large scale scams being unearthed every day. Government ministers openly take kickbacks & continue to enjoy the luxury of being ministers just because of coalition politics. How different is this from where you simply agree to part some money to an official in Govt office to get your work done as you dont want them to take ages to do their job & keep you running in loops.
We all will say that this is the system & this is how it works.
But then why crib when you see bigger fishes going for bigger bites. Is not it that deep inside we feel envy from these sharks? Given a chance we wont miss taking such a bite ourselves. I know some of us might not agree with this analogy but then who said world has to be in alignment for everything.
Just collection of random thoughts & before anyone gets an impression that I am trying to be a Saint here then its not the case. I aint Saint myself.
But then I strive & try to be Saint in some ways. ;-)
