Independence day!

Oh wow! Here comes our 72nd Independence day! Let me congratulate all my fellow Indians and wish you all a very happy Independence day!

So we are independent since 72 years! Are we? Have we become independent just by winning the war against the British? If that was the end to it, why do we still lose our soldiers every day? Why do they still need to guard the entire country? What if they go to a holiday for a single day? All of them at once! Forget about single day, what if they all give up for a single hour? What would happen? Would you and I be alive? 

While some one whom you don't even know or care for is guarding you against the enemy, here we are fighting over sometimes big and sometimes mean things! We backstab each other, kill each other in terms of trust, faith or even in body! An enemy who attacks you directly is much better than someone who makes you trust them and finally betrays you. There is no dearth of such people. People go to any extent and use other people in anyway to fulfill their selfish motives! People don't care. People don't bother even if the other person is dying!

What if the soldiers did the same to you and me? What if he says "why should I ever bother to guard you". Ofcourse he is paid for the job but that is not the one and only job that he could have done! Still you might say that may be he got this job and could not get others and so he joined! Yes that might be true! But Still worse! What if he makes us trust, joins as a guardian and betrays us at the last minute when it is time for him to face the bullet with love for the country and with a brave heart!

Independence is not a thing that was achieved and that's all. It is an every day struggle, everyday sacrifices. Not just the soldier, his entire family is sacrificing for you and me! And what are we doing to our fellow beings? Do we deserve being called an independent person! High time we realize how we are using other people. High time to put an end to the stupid hypocricy and internal enemies like jealousy, hatred, betrayal, selfishness and misuse of trust! 

Independence day doesn't just symbolize the day of victory. It also symbolises sacrifice of lakhs of people and of their families! Doesn't it move us all? Are we rocks? Let us ask ourselves what have we done to the country? No. What have you done to your family or fellow neighbor or your so called friend? Time to ponder over this. No fun in forwarding a thousand messages and pics on a single day with huge patriotism and continue giving shelter to the fore mentioned enemies in our own minds and hearts!

Jai Hind!

- KRS