Politics is a part of every person’s life…
Often we talk - politicians are this, politicians are that… but there is a politician in all of us… each one of us… now you will ask me how and why the hell am I giving a statement like this… on what basis… so, here I go…
Be it in school, be it in college or be it at our work places (whichever field it might be)… we all do things that we point our fingers at, when we talk about politicians – first thing first, telling lies or giving fake promises; then comes covering goof-ups rather escaping situations and the most important thing, taking bribe or doing things to get something in return.
I know a lot of people will read this post and say “bull-shit”… “She thinks she knows it all…” but those who knows themselves and who are honest to their inner being will admit at least once, “It’s true, what she wrote... at least once I did it…”
Let’s start from the bottom - taking bribe or doing things to get something in return: what do politicians do, they either do constructive works to gain votes or not-so-ethical deeds to earn money… that’s it. Don’t we do anything un-ethical… take the daily, regular, not-so-important examples, in school days, we make our parents solve the toughest sum in the math chapter and go to class next morning claiming to solve the sum on our own to earn the praise of being intelligent… in college days, we don’t turn up in class due to the pre-fixed meetings with our lovers and tell our best friends to give a proxy, to earn that 1 percent extra attendance… in office, we tell our juniors to finish the work in the shortest deadline possible and proudly go and present the assignment in our name, after all I made that person do the work; not to mention, to gain appreciation and a promotion from the big boss… If not the returns are in cash or kind, we do tend to ask for love and affection when we give the same to someone… is it not a deal?
Then comes the story of covering goof-ups or escaping situations: every time there is a fight between two kids, one will blame the other or both will shrug off the incident to avoid the punishment… chintu broke my tiffin-box because his water-bottle fell from my hands… fight, fight, fight… who did what, is like the question of what came first, egg or hen? In college days (to be precise, in those days of attraction or crushes), we manage to get a four-figure phone bill and cover-up the issue convincing our parents how important it was to talk about those tough chapters or the inevitable group discussions on the phone… in office, we commit mistakes after every fortnight and tend to escape the situation by saying, “having too many problems in my personal life to concentrate on work”, “was involved in so many matters that one mistake is just so trivial” or if not anything then, “I’m a human being too, mistakes can happen”…
Let’s move on now where we started from… the first and foremost thing- telling lies or giving fake promises: see, there are just two reasons to the question- ‘why people lie?’… It’s either they can’t speak the truth (they lack the guts) or they like fake more than fact… no offence to anyone but some people say, “Fake it to make it”… no one person in the world is HARISHCHANDRA… in school, students lie about having their lunch when they dedicatedly skip it… kids lie after having fights till the time the class teacher informs the parents as to how well-behaved and no-nonsense kid the parents are blessed with… in college, we swear to our friends to spend the evening with them and then they find us sitting in a garden with ‘the’ one who often seems the world to us… we promise to ourselves not to get pathetic marks in history or mathematics and break that promise in the immediate next exam… and in office, all blunders come in a package with a lie… no lie is ever repeated as we become the master of lies and can instantly reproduce a new and improved lie within no time… be it being late in meetings, laptops getting crashed just before our undone, unfinished, incomplete presentations for which we spend some 23 sound-sleep nights (which should have been taken over by the sleep-less ones) or 101 reasons to persuade your boss to approve your ideas even if someone else’s suggestions are, by all means, better than yours…
This is why I feel we are good politicians and can do wonders in the blame-game when we land up in an argument about “what makes a good politician”… we point one finger at them, neglecting the reality that three of our own fingers are pointing towards us…
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