why o why should you cry ?

Off late I hear a lot of " Our country has gone to the dogs", "Life is bitch", "Trust not even your blood", "Good old times" Everybody is today talking a lot  about the stress they are going through and how much worse today the state of affairs are, be it personal or professional or cultural or system related.

But is n't the good old times the best example of things being worse are, our mythology talks about blood being poisonous (Mahabharat and Ramayan), epidemics  would swipe out a nation, concept of democracy and equality was alien, barbaric deaths was based on the whims of the ruler and fate was a lot more in the hands of mother nature. People would die before they hear from someone who was two state away and seeing the world was like seeing God. Education was a treasure of few and women were treated as cattle.

I for one am thankful to God for letting me enjoy the world that exists today. We live in an era where luxuries very easily get converted to basic necessity. Its no longer "water, food and shelter" its  "spring" water, "diet" food, "series" of  shelter.

Most of us lead the life we dreamt of and if we aint being able to do so its mostly because we have not put in enough efforts. Off course there are stray cases of sheer bad luck but then exceptions cant make the rule.

Maybe its time we stop cribbing about what went wrong and look at what more we have and what best we can do with what we have.

Positive vibes attract more positive vibes and end of the day, a normal day looks fulfilling because we attracted positive feelings and let our mind feel oxygenated with good thoughts.

So what if the country has gone to the dogs, dogs are man's faithful friend, what if life is a bitch, she gives the puppies so much love, trust not your blood, trust yourself as in the end that is what you are left with !

Yes we all are alone at the end of the day, but who is stopping you from not being lonely, enjoy your own company, if you cannot bear yourself, no one else will :)

cynical or realistic ?

The wind that Anna Hazare blew, did make some waves, but did it lead to winds of change ? Time alone will tell.

I did not have my hopes too high and still don't. But was pleasantly surprised to see the decibel rise by youth on various social networking sites.

Changing the system is not a project or operation that can have a time frame, its a process which is dependent on so many parameters and the most critical is persistent effort of like minded people without hidden agenda.

The last part is virtually impossible according to me. Today most have a hidden agenda behind every action and if you dont have one, you are labelled naive. 

Maybe this is the beginning of the end of corruption and dichotomy in the system or just another drop in the sea of efforts which may not raise a tsunami of change, but an effort never the less.

I some how don't have my hopes to high. So does that make me a cynic ?

Cynics, how does one be one, is it a 3 step process or 1 ? Can you be cynical with respect to few things in life or most ? In that case do you become a partial cynic or veteran ?

Or am I being realistic in my approach ? Now isn't being realistic being border line cynical ?

Keeping my fingers crossed for a Incredible India dream and is still keeping the faith, albeit a little dimmer by the day, never the less its there. 

Jai Ho