On the eve of our Independence’s day I promised to write something about my country. Especially when all the time I talk lot of crap about my country! Time couldn’t be perfect since I was watching one of my favorite advertisements about cell phone service provider. Back in good old days, it touched my heart and made me dream. It made me dream to buy a cell phone one day. Today, I was watching the same advertisement again, and realize what makes us Indians Indian. If I think, taking this advertisement in consideration, I can surely say its’ ‘emotions’. After watching the advertisement today, I could feel in the same way, what I felt 10 years back. So here it goes, irrespective of everything, why I feel proud to be born in India and what I have got.
People say we are emotional fools (especially western world), which might be true. Everyone needs something different in their life, but probably we need something which gives reason for our own existence. May be we are one of the rarest species who gets the most important thing needed for human being, the thing called as “Love” and that too without asking for it, from everyone.
India was a country of king and kingdoms, and still today, it is country of kind of “king & kingdoms”. I am king in my own because of all the love I get from my family, from my relatives, from my friends, which makes you feel you are the king of the world. And it doesn’t depends on how much money you have in your wallet, doesn’t depend on if you are extremely good looking or you suck by matter of physical beauty, or if you are CEO or if you are a taxi driver. We all may be earning different money, but we do all earn equal amount of love (it’s a phrase because love cannot be counted). And there is no doubt about it.
We always believe that we live our life for not ourselves but for others. We depend on each other hence “I” will be rarely in our conversation but what we say is “We”. Parents live their life for their kids; kids live their life for their parents, for their friends, and when grow up the same kids live their life for their love, their wife, their kids and circle continues. We are born with the feeling that life is best lived with the people you love and matters, and so as everyone around us. For us what matter is what you get, you have to give it back in this same life. For us, we don’t need retirement benefits, because our retirement is happiness of our kids. Benefits can give you money, but cannot give you love when need most. We believe it’s our job, it’s our duty, it’s our love, and it’s our dharma to give hand to our old parents when they taught us how to take step on this planet. For most of us, life is not profit and lost, but a laugh to be shared with your loved once. We believe we earn people only once and we have to be with them forever.
We may not be polite, we may not say ‘good morning’ to every passing stranger or ‘thank you’ for everything, but at the same time we do not hesitate to give up everything for loved one around us.
I feel very lucky, and probably rest all in India as lucky as me. Reason, I got amazing parents who loves me unconditionally. They loves me from bottom of their heart, scarified their entire life because they though they brought me in this world and now it’s their job to give me best possible thing in world. It doesn’t matter if they don’t have a rupee to spend of them because of me. I got amazing sisters, cousins, relatives, for whom my happiness was more important than anything else. I got amazing friends (probably the guy with most number of best friends in the world). Even they are pissed off for whatsoever reason, but always their shoulder is always there for me. Whatever happens, I know there are and always will be people beside me, and saying “don’t you worry, I am with you”
If you are meeting an Indian, you are meeting an emotional fool. A person for whom life is matter of relations and love we share with each other. And that’s why even to a stranger we greet with ‘relation’ opposed to Mr., Miss, and Sir Etc.
I feel proud and lucky to be born here; the place which makes you thinks not only about you but people around you. It’s India. If I get a million chances, I will still want to be kid of my same parents, still want to be in the same village, and still want to be the guy who I am, and the same people around me.
Having said so, yes, we have lot more to learn from rest of the world. We need to learn. But there is so much NOT to lose. I really hope that one day we will achieve that balance. Keeping what we have and learning from others. And I know, that day, I will say, yes, we are the number 1.
Did I sound very much like typical Indian Yes, because I am.
Happy Independence Day!
