Can you see your feet clearly?

-This 15th August was a simple and special one. Not because this was the first one after I have entered the real world [notice the absence of metaphorical,indirect indications and usage of 'you' to generalize things ;)]
-Although every Independence and republic day evokes similar sentiments in many other Indians, yet such sentiments often tend to produce just 'Drawing room bravery!'
- This time I got an opportunity to be amidst a jostling crowd of about 100 village primary school kids full of brimming enthusiasm. After the 'for granted' formality of flag hoisting and national anthem, a small cultural program was conducted. Pretty girls all dressed up in salwar-kameez duppata came forward to sing their local dialect/bhojpuri patriotic songs with a statuary warning before every performance 'to consider them abodh balika and forgive them for any mistakes that might have crept in'.
-These innocent kids unknowingly took so much answer ability on their not so-weak shoulders that made me just sigh in vain , if they could inspire some pseudo intellectuals like us! We just sit and blame others for all the injustice and wrongs around us without ever getting indulged or trying to think how to solve the problems ourselves. If there is some ailment in our body, we can only get rid of it only if we take medicine our self. But nowadays what we do is to groan in pain and curse till someone else takes pity! The biggest problems in our life has become not more than that Independence day falls on Sunday and also coincides with a Maoist strike, so three consecutive holidays are being marred! How huge a problem is that!
-The patriotic slogans/songs/speech/videos created were meant to commemorate the long cherished history full of innumerable sacrifices and struggle. But nowadays it has become a decayed tradition, repeating same things over and again. Mere show off of something happened in the past, which some people say was magnanimously glorious, we are far from our own grounds!! Far far away!
-Also, I was meant to distribute prizes to all those who sung/spoke. Being my first time at the giving end, I was as nervous as the kids. But the moment I gave that Rs.10 note book and a Pen to a child, he/she would smile,something twinkled in their eyes, they thanked me in a sing tone saying, Thaaankyou Didi and then touched their teacher's and my feet in a row. Initially that was a little embarrassing act but then it moistened cores of my eyes. Can we expect same amount of humility and respect out of the new gen-z kids studying in convent schools? I have myself rarely touched any one's feet like that while taking away any prize. Ironies!! :)
-Someone has recently said to me that never say 'No' to anything! Although facing a lack of Yes in itself ,yet how positive that statement is. I was already on my achieving mission impossible spree doing stuffs ranging from managing accounts, selling stuffs, convincing people to buy stuffs, hiring and firing sales people, igniting hope in the minds of the dormant corrupt govt.officials that good work can be done here honestly, giving media interviews apart from conventional designing leather goods/articles, when this day's events just opened my eyes to more reality.
-We have created boundaries everywhere. Limitations hold us tightly bound in chains,yet we fail to see these shackles because we lack guts to break free of the rat race. Our neighbour's house is being looted but we cannot ring up 100. Country's youth is being deployed and transformed into being a Naxalite'. We curse government for the numerous naxalite/Maoist strikes,but never bother to stop and think how can we help in livelihood generation? People die of poverty and hunger but what we do is just to join a community called 'feed a child with a click' on FB and think our work is done. Global warming is melting ice caps and flooding oceans, but we do not plant tree as our share of responsibility, instead we leave a drought-famine prone area and settle in some metropolitan city because we want to enjoy life!
-Living in big cities, we think that world is becoming advanced and things are rapidly progressing,but we ignore the fact that our eyes cannot see starved faces around. They want food, they want work, even they have right to be comfortable and cosy under their own roofs! Protesting, speaking eloquently,holding debates on such issues are no way a solution to all these, we need to wake up, stand and lookout for our own unique way to serve humanity.
-Youth of my generation should actually shake off the dirt settled on their mindsets. Studying in big schools/colleges, getting a nice high pay multinational company job offer, partying hard, earning and then drinking off that money should not be the only priority in life. If you can multitask then show it off. Take a pledge, join an NGO, join a government firm and try to do away with the existing corruption, have benevolence to help every needy around. A Person can only speak about materialistic amenities if he/she deserves it. Don't just get smiles, instead try to earn happiness!

-I have taken a pledge this time that I will free at least some minds out of shackles and come out with some worthwhile work,I think then only I can actually celebrate.

-To see one's own feet one needs to get rid of all personal, selfish reasons , stoop down with humility, touch lower grounds first and then extend horizon till zenith, but how many of us actually can do that?