FROG IN THE WELL?????

I take up the newspaper, fed up of "trying to prepare" for an entrance exam.
The difference being the newspaper is almost a week old,
Running through the usual stories of killings, kidnappings, rapes and murders in the first page,
i turn to the sports page, an analysis of the indian cricket team for the carribean, the possibility of handing over the captaincy to sachin, blah blah blah.....
then to the business page - the officially unofficial release of i-phone by steve jobs priced at $500-600 in the US, good one said my friends, but affordable????

then i reach the editorial page, there comes an article by shashi tharoor.......
He puts forth an India shining picture.......rather a resurgent india picture, citing the example of the new poster boy for mallus, shanatakumaran sreesanth, sreeshanth, or sreesunth???? however his numerologist might have advised him off late.......

Tharoor puts forth the idea of the agressive Indian, like gopu or sree as they call the fast bowler.....

an India where tit for tat rules....
i would deal with you in the same plate as u did with me.....
an india which does not buck down under one blow, which would give back the blows......

good....
youngsters can really get inspired by that idea....

then i reach the supplements, the sunday supplement has an article informing us that the drag "queen" in the UK this time is an Indian, RESURGENT INDIA.....for sure......

then comes another supplement.......
it again brings up the mallu poster boy, and asks whether Indians are aggresive enough to achieve their goals and ambitions....
the survey says pretty much yes.....

And India's own superhero, a bollywood star, also reiterates that we need to stretch ourselves
to know our limits.......
for that he says we need to get out of our own "comfort" zone.......
true i agree a lot....
but how much "comfortable" is anyone out of their own comfort zone....
what is our ultimate aim?
To be HAPPY!!
But happy outside the so called comfort zone!!!!
Is it really possible????
Although everyone would prefer not to be called the proverbial frog in the well, but still everryone loves to be one.....
don't we?
There lies in the problem of aiming high......
We get acrophobic.....
What if we fall midway through????
what if we never reach there??????
would we able to take the mockery associated with the failure?????

But i would rate one thing, which would be ignored by many......
what if we really reach there???
The point of stretching us further comes.....
Stretching further until one day the chord breaks.....
But what have we achieved???
We still feel incomplete....
Still feel that we have got more to do till one day we will die leaving the job at hand unfinished.....

And in this process we might even break a few relationships built over the time, because we no longer belong to that genre of people.
We can't even strike a conversation with them.
Simply putting we start feeling uncomfortable, thus getting out of the "comfort" zone.....
But is achievemnt in the materialastic world really worth it?????
True to be called a "hero" by the masses you need to cut a few present chords, forge a few new ones......
But there in stands the choice......
Emotional satisfatcion or materialastic satisfaction?????
What would you prefer?

Even Mahatma Gandhi, is said to have a "spiritual marriage" to Tagore's niece, three years his junior at the age of 50, because he just couldn't realte to an illeterate Kasturba.
Yesterday i went for a bollywood flick, Guru, about how a villager makes it big as an industrialist, but the moral ways are forgotten for the good.
The end of the movie, say many including the newspaper in my hand, was flawed.
Because the industrialist is let off for all the frauds that he has committed.
They said cinema should always show a "morally good" end.
But i guess that's justified in the materialastic world of today.
India is definitely changing and so are its people.
Everything is changing with time.
Nothing remains same.
You.
Me.
Him.
Her.
It.
Everything, nothing escapes the clutches of time.
And so does India!!!

Three cheers for the changing country, although something dear is always lost in a change!
You have to pay for everything.
Nothing comes for free.
This country is set to pay with its culture down the line.....

Call me a pessimist or one that resists change......
But if I am happy with the present scenario, why should i change????

I would love to be the frog in the well.
My world does start and end with the well!!!!