I woke up angry this morning. While I was going through the usual morning chores due to the absence of my man-Friday, I couldn't concentrate on whatever I was doing. So I sat down and wrote this piece to share this state of mind with my family and friends. Written in 15 minutes, I'm posting it without much edit. Please excuse any errors.
I wish I could turn myself into an insensitive asshole so that I wouldn’t get affected by all the crap that goes on around me every single day of my life. Today it’s panic within the North East community from being discriminated against, a new government sponsored scam to loot the country or twenty other incidents that are all over the news. Sometimes I just want to run away but where does one go? Is your country war ridden for years? Do you have the threat of another imbecile Republican president returning to administer your country? I want to be in ‘la-la land’ but I can’t seem to find it.
If you ask me for my opinion, or even if you don’t, here’s what I think should happen. Aliens need to invade our planet and humans need to be wiped out from the face of the earth. We’ve had our chance and what have we done? Destroyed our forests, ruined our climate, wiped out species, killed and milked for greed and completely lost our conscience somewhere along the way.
Everyday I am more and more embarrassed and ashamed of being Indian and human. We are easily the ugliest species ever. Live and let die. Who cares about anyone else as long as I have something to gain? Who cares if you are on the street or if you cease to exist, as long as I get what I want. Because I want more and more and there’s no end to the zeroes in my stack of desired wealth. Millions are passé. Too many billionaires now. Let’s aim for a trillion. And what’s the ‘word’ for once I get the required three zeroes after a trillion? Gazillion?
I wish I could turn myself into an insensitive asshole so that I wouldn’t get affected by all the crap that goes on around me every single day of my life. Today it’s panic within the North East community from being discriminated against, a new government sponsored scam to loot the country or twenty other incidents that are all over the news. Sometimes I just want to run away but where does one go? Is your country war ridden for years? Do you have the threat of another imbecile Republican president returning to administer your country? I want to be in ‘la-la land’ but I can’t seem to find it.
If you ask me for my opinion, or even if you don’t, here’s what I think should happen. Aliens need to invade our planet and humans need to be wiped out from the face of the earth. We’ve had our chance and what have we done? Destroyed our forests, ruined our climate, wiped out species, killed and milked for greed and completely lost our conscience somewhere along the way.
Everyday I am more and more embarrassed and ashamed of being Indian and human. We are easily the ugliest species ever. Live and let die. Who cares about anyone else as long as I have something to gain? Who cares if you are on the street or if you cease to exist, as long as I get what I want. Because I want more and more and there’s no end to the zeroes in my stack of desired wealth. Millions are passé. Too many billionaires now. Let’s aim for a trillion. And what’s the ‘word’ for once I get the required three zeroes after a trillion? Gazillion?
Ugh.
And what do most of the ones with a conscience do? We sit in our living rooms and rant about it. Maybe post some link on social media or email so we can be a count in a protest that mostly doesn’t lead to anything. Were we able to save the trees in Malleswaram where the administrators sneakily chopped them off in the middle of the night? What is going on with our forests? Mines? Tigers? Lakes? Landfills? Random shootings?
Of course we have no money to feed and house our poor. We do however, have a large budget to send an entourage of our politicians on a tour to several developed countries so that they can study and learn from their processes. Sure. Who are they kidding? Do we look like a bunch of complete idiots? Is the report from the study ever going to be made public? Will we see a change from it. Fat chance! A taxpayer sponsored holiday for our ugly politicians who will most likely make a nuisance of themselves and make the locals think that all Indians are uncivilized and uncouth.
And now that I’m done with my bitching and ranting, let me go back to my comfortable life and make plans for the weekend.
Yes, I hate me too.
And what do most of the ones with a conscience do? We sit in our living rooms and rant about it. Maybe post some link on social media or email so we can be a count in a protest that mostly doesn’t lead to anything. Were we able to save the trees in Malleswaram where the administrators sneakily chopped them off in the middle of the night? What is going on with our forests? Mines? Tigers? Lakes? Landfills? Random shootings?
Of course we have no money to feed and house our poor. We do however, have a large budget to send an entourage of our politicians on a tour to several developed countries so that they can study and learn from their processes. Sure. Who are they kidding? Do we look like a bunch of complete idiots? Is the report from the study ever going to be made public? Will we see a change from it. Fat chance! A taxpayer sponsored holiday for our ugly politicians who will most likely make a nuisance of themselves and make the locals think that all Indians are uncivilized and uncouth.
And now that I’m done with my bitching and ranting, let me go back to my comfortable life and make plans for the weekend.
Yes, I hate me too.
