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My personal situation, on a relative scale, is rather more tragic. I would suggest you not to make that assumption about my upbringing, for you would be quite i
by osrec 8y ago
My personal situation, on a relative scale, is rather more tragic. I would suggest you not to make that assumption about my upbringing, for you would be quite incorrect.
- yumraj 8y agoFair enough, mea culpa. However, my argument (stated differently) that passion is a luxury that not everyone can afford, still stands.
- osrec 8y agoI don't think you understand what I'm saying. In a sense, I'm agreeing with you. Passion is a luxury in India, yes, but because of the way society has been set up. We need to change things so as to nurture the passions of our people, rather than have them scrambling for basic necessities. I believe we have all the ingredients to make it happen, but seem to lack the will or a plan.
- yumraj 8y agoI think where I'm disagreeing with you is I believe passion is a luxury due to economic constraints rather than an artifact of societal setup, at least in the modern times. In historic times, and to a lesser extent even now, careers were decided based on family, so there yes societal setup led to suppression of passion. However, even then how much of that was due to economic reasons and how much societal if a difficult question to answer, at least for me. But, OTOH, I do agree that India has all the ingredients to become much greater - how do we get there is a much more complicated topic.
- kamaal 8y ago>>My personal situation, on a relative scale, is rather more tragic. Everybody's is. Imagine what goes in the mind of a boy, who is living and watching crores of people starving in his country. Unless you have abundance for everyone, every ones gathers what they can for themselves.
- osrec 8y agoYou are ratifying my point, especially in your deleted comment. The rest of this response was originally for your deleted comment. I think it makes sense here as well: A poorly funded school is a governmental/societal failing. As is the inability to afford basic necessities. It should simply never be that way. We produce enough food to feed c. 10bn people, yet parts of the world go hungry. We can cheaply disseminate education almost anywhere today, yet large portions of the world remain uneducated. In a country like India, these things can now be addressed, if only there was a plan and a sincere effort to execute that plan. I did not mean to hurt you and I sincerely hope you escape/have escaped your hell, but more importantly, that you don't create hell for others once you do escape. Perhaps even try to alleviate the hell of others when you are able to do so. My point is, given the resources we have, life doesn't need to be hell. It can be good, if we manage things properly.
- kamaal 8y agoNone of this is happening in India because the problem isn't restricted to just money alone. There are huge social problems to solve. People here still fight elections on the basis of religion and caste.