The more one thinks about it, the easier it becomes to realize that insanity and indifference have a very close, perhaps even a symbiotic relationship.
"Pop" psychology would certainly suggest so.
If we don't care for what happens around us, in our society, and expect things to change on account of some magic wand...then that is surely insane.
So, being indifferent to issues like the safety of our citizens, the quality of education, the values being imparted to children, how we treat our women, our preparedness against natural disasters and the list can be endless...and expecting that our system will change overnight, is, at the risk of repetition, surely insane.
The flip side, is its aftermath.
Indifference, which lets people get away when they say there are different social rules for men and women - i.e women who smoke/drink/swear are morally "easy" and men are "cowboys/cool/macho".
Indifference, which doesn't make us question or protest against grossly flawed behaviour - not treating women with respect, swearing / cursing in their presence, even something as basic as littering in public.
And then, one day, in some form or the other, one ends up facing the consequences of that indifference.
Which, depending upon its harshness, makes one temporarily or permanently insane.
Insane enough to ask many futile questions.
The toughest one of them all perhaps being..."Could this have been prevented had I not been indifferent ?"
Must we not stop for a moment, and think this over ?
Must we not make the correct choice - of action over inertia, of slaying this monster of indifference.
I hope that this new year, we ask this question to ourselves, and choose the right answer - one which we are comfortable with, and can live with without the tiniest feeling of remorse or regret.
Let's not be indifferent any more - because we owe it to ourselves.
"Pop" psychology would certainly suggest so.
If we don't care for what happens around us, in our society, and expect things to change on account of some magic wand...then that is surely insane.
So, being indifferent to issues like the safety of our citizens, the quality of education, the values being imparted to children, how we treat our women, our preparedness against natural disasters and the list can be endless...and expecting that our system will change overnight, is, at the risk of repetition, surely insane.
The flip side, is its aftermath.
Indifference, which lets people get away when they say there are different social rules for men and women - i.e women who smoke/drink/swear are morally "easy" and men are "cowboys/cool/macho".
Indifference, which doesn't make us question or protest against grossly flawed behaviour - not treating women with respect, swearing / cursing in their presence, even something as basic as littering in public.
And then, one day, in some form or the other, one ends up facing the consequences of that indifference.
Which, depending upon its harshness, makes one temporarily or permanently insane.
Insane enough to ask many futile questions.
The toughest one of them all perhaps being..."Could this have been prevented had I not been indifferent ?"
Must we not stop for a moment, and think this over ?
Must we not make the correct choice - of action over inertia, of slaying this monster of indifference.
I hope that this new year, we ask this question to ourselves, and choose the right answer - one which we are comfortable with, and can live with without the tiniest feeling of remorse or regret.
Let's not be indifferent any more - because we owe it to ourselves.
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