Ignoring the danger of sounding philosophical and making my readers close the page, I would like to start off with a quote that Mahatma Gandhi shared with the world: “Be the change you want to see”.
Taking this quote to heart, I started out with a noble quest in my head, of trying to organize a big national level event in our college which would enable all those who participated in it to go back with enlightened minds (at least as enlightened as 20 year olds get).
But something that nobody tells you about change is that how much people only talk about it and never do anything. It is how people work. They become lackadaisical about their attitude and thus try to avoid change. Why go with something new when we can do nothing and sit here complaining about how we have nothing to do?
Well, I didn’t know about it when I started. So when the words, the rumours that were being circulated about me being too aggressive and always getting my way started, it felt like a whiplash. This is what we (a bunch of people who wanted to make something out of our time in college, make something worth remembering college) get for even trying.
The alternative was follow the routine prescribed, not think outside the box, and definitely not even think about improving something, because God forbid if it actually worked…..
In the end, we got to go ahead with the plans for our event, based on certain conditions. But I see their faces everyday, those who opposed me vehemently. It’s like they want us to fail, want it to not work out so that they can say a big fat “I told you so.!!” This evokes a mixture of fright and fighting spirit, but a doubt will always be there, what if none of this gives fruit and they are right. That I wasn’t capable of bringing about such a huge change. I hope I will be content with the fact that I would have at least tried to bring in change while others are too deeply entrenched in their humdrum existence.
And if trying to work for something bigger and trying to get it done means I will be labeled headstrong, then so be it.
MUSINGS OF MY OWN 