Wrong!!

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google News" Yeh galat hai " this is wrong!! When was the last time you heard or made this statement?? Well, I am sure you must have heard it quit often from your boss or your parents but that's not what I meant. We do react this way quit often then we realize.

You would feel this way while you are driving or standing in que when some one cut's you off or while reading or watching news where there are stories of gross injustice done which sadly happens almost everyday. I am sure some of you did light a candle and joined a protest. Some of us debate at home whether the students protesting reservation are right or wrong. Watching a child working or begging feels wrong, coming back after a day's hard work to a home with no electricity feels wrong. Watching an animal dying on the road without any, help feels wrong. What Israel is doing to people of Palestine is wrong.

There are many issues we come across, discuss, and get back to our lives.

I was just wondering where does this start. This acceptance of "such is life". This is not fair but suck it up. When do we on a conscious level start accepting what feels wrong?

I am afraid sometimes we can't even define right or wrong. "What can I do" syndrome has taken over so strongly that we have become numb to even figure out if we are being wronged.

So many of us would feel this way some times in their jobs where they cannot even tell their boss if something is wrong coz you work on their perception of what is right. Moreover, whomever you need more is always right. This mantra works in relationships as well.

I am not preaching that we change the system or the world but I cannot figure out why cant people just come out and say it. We just vent it out on our friends, colleagues or at home on our parents. Then what else can one do? Step out and shout but then you would be out of the line standing alone and lets accept its scary being alone.

I guess it would be easy to blame parents. Why? Because the values we grow up with do not get induced into us so much from our education system as they do from our parents. Who used to tell us from time to time that you have to adjust or compromise. When we used to complain about some bully troubling us in school the advice they would give is "Avoid". And I guess that's the policy we have conveniently adopted.

Avoid if there is trouble around you; adjust if you cannot change anything.

On the other hand, we could blame the country or the system where whatever the rich and the powerful do becomes right.

But that's one thing we are all so good at...finding someone or something to blame when we fail miserably in something. We will applaud a hero standing tall in a movie and commend a director for making a great film but that sense of righteousness fades away with the next comedy or mush we see. As for me, I am part of the herd but i do blame myself for blaming the system for every wrong that happens to me.

"If you want to find out what's right for you, sometimes it's enough to figure out what's wrong"
first published:August 24, 2006, 21:06 ISTlast updated:August 24, 2006, 21:06 IST
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