Hindi language uses the same word 'kal' for past and future. Its like we live often in the past or the future often forgetting that we are supposed to live in 'now'.
The memorial day weekend here left me wondering, here is this country celebrating every year the scarifies of their soldiers and almost every holiday has a relevance today. What has India done for the glory of their soldiers? India Gate - erected in 1931 for those died serving the British in the world war. Indian government later converted it to be a memorial for those who died in the Indo-Pak war - 1974. How appalling! The country which spends maximum percentage of budget on defense does not have even one monument dedicated to its war heroes.
We have regaled in the glory of the past. Celebrating the victories of the past and often forgetting the relevance of today. Do we have any role models today? Who does today's youth look up to? Ambanis, Tatas or Birlas. What about those leading the nation, do we have a hero there? Leaving no chance, we have often quoted Gandhi and others. Yet another case of living in the past.
The truth is we have left the decisions of choosing our leaders to the masses and intelligent audience does not ask potent questions to those who decide to take oath. We keep living in the future and taking cues from past experience and forgetting that it is the present that will build the future.
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so whats the message u wanna convey?
Thats the sad state of how we're living our sad hypocritic lives.
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