Blame-Game……..Shame !!!

From my childhood to till date, I have never given any bad examinations but didn’t get result accordingly. Except a very few subjects or classes, I never scored well, but during the interrogation process of my parents, I always used to put the blame on teachers stating this was not taught in class, that was due to I was absent on that day and so didn’t learn, bla bla, all bullshit explanations to prove that I was not wrong but my teachers. They were wrong in giving me marks, they were biased to someone else and that’s the reason behind my low score. I guess, this is not only my story but can be applied to anyone available on the earth.

There are hell lot of reasons and excuses for a mistake, for a fault or for something that we didn’t achieve for ourselves, for the family or may be society at large. We don’t value the practice, we don’t know how to give marks to even a small try but wait for the end result to come and show us rank-wise to determine actually who has worked better and to make it more complex, we have invented, designed a lot types and criterion of ranking. We judge people by seeing their color, caste, religion, character, attitude etc. we have sub-divided those criterion also to some other level to make it more precise. I feel this shit practice is nothing but to make loopholes to put on blame on others on anything. Whatever may be the topic we need to prove that I am the best person available on earth and if I have done something wrong, then also I didn’t do it intentionally but due to some other pressures or maybe we could call it ‘reasons’. We broke a toy in childhood and blames slippery surface or smartly said, it was almost broken from before and my fall has just accelerated it.

Still we blame Muslim for Afghanistan or WTC attack, we blame Christianity for attack on Iraq, we blame Hindu for claiming Ram Mandir in place of Babri Mosque. We blame politician for ruining our country and still vote them putting the blame on our so called democracy rights. We blame our teacher for not guiding us well while we were students and keep doing the wrong thing time and again without rectifying our own mistakes. We reach office late and smartly put the blame on road traffic or railways but don’t start five minutes before our scheduled time.

Like John F. Kennedy’s famous words, “let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future”, lets try to stop blaming others but make ourselves responsible for things related to us.

Lets not spit on the road and later on say, the city is dirty. Lets not spend time by finding other’s fault but try to move on and keep on trying to reach a place, where people will even dare to put on a blame.

Debraj

Mumbai

24.04.2014