THE DEVELOPMENT MANIFESTO!

Mom used to always tell me, "Never blame anyone for anything. If you are strong enough, then you should be ready to take the blame yourself." And this statement has somehow stayed imprinted inside my head forever. 

And years later, when I counsel students, the only thing I tell them is, "Never point your finger at anyone 'cause there are three fingers pointing back at you!" 

And what do these three fingers tell you? They say that I am three times worse than the person I am pointing my fingers at. And how does that make me feel? Obviously not nice. All this time I was thinking that I am the best and suddenly, you tell me that I am worse than you?

Having said that, I wonder why we do small talk at all. Haven't we wasted enough time already doing what we shouldn't have done? Isn't it late already? Late? You ask me, "Late for what?"

Obviously, late in saving my land from all this rut. We have our hands full already with so much to perform and then do we anyway have time for idle gossip? 

People love gossip and in fact, more the merrier! But let me tell you, this will not do us any good; not now, not ten years from now! The world needs us, needs good people to save it and protect it from thoughts which are alienating it from its own self. 

What I personally feel is at this very moment we need to talk, discuss and come to a solution about the country. There is so much we can talk about; the development of the minds of the youth, women protection, depleting tree cover, training for mothers, education, clean drinking water, hygiene, sanitation, medical aide, girl child mortality and so much more. We have so many, read that as gargantuan, huge, mammoth, endless problems to discuss about across the table and come to a solution. The world needs so many good people to heal it off its wounds and nurse it back to what it was before. 

But ordinary as we humans tend to behave, we still have time to discuss petty nothings rather than thinking how beautiful we can make the Earth by carpeting it with the most attractive ideas and thoughts.

Just give it a try and take the first baby step to save the World! It desperately needs a lot of good people!