Getting it right??

They never said life would be simple. They never said you will always be successful. It’s not how you deal with success that determines the type of person you are, but it is the way you face failures.

We all have at one certain point in our life encountered a happy go lucky person. They have always been the cause of our distress. Probably when she got the lead role in that school play, and everybody bullied you. Taking revenge on her was the first thing that came to your mind. After all, she was the one who, landed you in this position, right?

Wrong. It wasn’t her because of whom you felt miserable. It  those big guys who laughed at you, that hit you hard. But, wait. You couldn't possibly fight them. That’s was a really big deal. So all you had done was making things rough for that  girl. But, she didn't do anything to you, and was enjoying her own world.

Just because, you are hurt, and you have a lot of problems to deal with, doesn’t mean the other has to have the same. There are always some people, who would never want  to pick a fight against you, and would be sitting in some corner of a  room in their own sweet world, enjoying what life offers.

Remember that not-so-talkative nerdy kid, with shabby clothes, who always tried to make friends with you, and at times forced you. Most of the time he didn’t even understand that he was made fun of. All the bullies just had awesome time making him run around the corridor. Probably that’s how they dealt with their failures. The satisfaction of  being able to make someone else’s life more miserable than their, made things a lot better for them.

Isn’t that exactly what everyone is trying to do now? And yes I am talking about the JNU students.

I am in no way supporting what they said and what they did. Oh, wait. They didn’t do anything.

With the world torn apart by wars erupting between the powerful nations, terrorist attacks killing innocent civilians, and continuous recruitment, forced slavery and trafficking by  non-state actors, we think that the pressing matter at hand is what those students said. Definitely their words made a lot of difference. A lot.  At least, now the rulers and their subjects are on the same page against something.

Ours is a democratic republic and definitely the citizens are the major concerns. It’s the rule by the citizens and for the citizens. And though freedom of speech is guaranteed by our constitution, it should be used judiciously.

Now, just sit down and look back. Remember in 2012 when the girl in Delhi was brutally raped and murdered? We almost had the whole nation raise their voice for it. All of us wanted justice. We wanted to make sure that all the accused got severe punishments so that there wouldn’t be a next time. 3 years later, the scenario stands as, the prime accused is free, one of them died in jail, and the others are imprisoned for 10 years, and there has been countless ‘next times’.  Yes, that’s right. After all the struggle that the entire nation went through, we achieved this. At least that time it was the majority who wanted the same thing and still failed. 

This time, it’s just a handful of college students,  that has brought to questioning whether the college should work.

Yes, it hurts, that a college that functions with the tax payers hard earned money has produced students who think, that those terrorists’ motives were right and they should be fulfilled.

But how, can you judge the whole crowd by a handful? And if the wrong use of your money is what hurts you most, then where were you when the politicians got away with scams? Where were you when our country spent so much on a terrorist who killed hundreds of people on 26/11? You couldn’t fight it that time. Because the fight was against those big guys. 

But this time it’s an easy one. At least if you win this one, you will have the 'satisfaction of A WIN' after so many failures.

I know, many of you would have a different opinion. And trust, me I respect it. I am as much Indian as you are.  I just sit back and imagine, that thank God I don’t have such students in my college. Or else I would not have been able to complete my graduation.