Can difference be really made?

Why do we bother about GDP growth when we Indians lack basic civic sense?. Before trying to outgrow all other countries in terms of growth there are a few basic 'sense' we have to develop. One among them is traffic sense, which I believe is part of basic tenet 'value other's time too'. Let us discuss about traffic sense here. Glad to discuss with you 'value other's time too' some other day.

I recently had the 'privilege' of getting caught in a traffic jam. But this is not a rare privilege to Bangaloreans. A biker happened to run into a car, where I felt there was no big damage of any sort done. But the car driver was adamant to remove his car off the road. He wanted police inspection done on that exact spot. The tussle went for more than 30 minutes blocking the way all the way. Traffic piled up for more than 4kms. The car driver did not bother a bit about so many stranded ones.

It was not the worst I saw. After waiting patiently for more than 30 minutes, when I finally could move, I saw a jam in the opposite lane too. An impatient car driver, in his attempt to get out of the jam, was trying to enter his opposite lane (my lane) having removed off large chunks of lane separator made of cement bricks!!! Isn't it the heights of dishonor to the State?

Why have we lost all the powers of reasoning? Why can't we reason out that everyone patiently waiting in their lane is the best way to solve a jam? Why can't we think that we will be aggravating the problem by trying to enter the wrong lane?

I can only recall following lines of Tagore.


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Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

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Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, Let My Country Awake.”

-                                                                                                                 - Tagore

Is it that everyone has to be precise in time in delivering their call of duty of saving the World from impending catastrophe?  Best way to manage time is to start early. Isn't it?

Sometimes I wonder if difference can really be made to India. May be they who go 'elsewhere' to work to make 'riches' are wiser people. It's too early in life to make that decision.