My grand grandfather took my grandfather to the school which promised discipline as its focus. He later understood that neither the care for discipline nor anything was up to even the very basic level. My grandfather took my father to the school which promised quality education. Alas, quality is too relative and the promise and the delivered thing didn’t match.
My father took me to the school which promised to facilitate sports activities apart from discipline and education. There was no space and budget for sports in the school. I took my son to the school which promised hi-tech setup for learning and collaboration. At the end, I had to spend all my money to get nothing of worthy. I think there will be a school again promising discipline oriented education and my grandson will go there.
Okay, it is not about schools. It is about promises and hopes and disappointments. Generation after generation we vote and elect leaders. I hear hundreds of promises from our politicians in every election. Those are exactly the promises that my heart longs to hear, from the language to religion to no corruption to… freedom. In fact, every election has something on top that gets marketed so well by all the political parties and I am sort of forced to think only on that something. For example, it could be liquor free India in next election. I'll get thousands of alcohol drinking death instances messages and awareness information and statistics across the globe. I’ll forget everything else and choose the party which is more promising in doing that.
These promises and hopes are not just part this generation alone. The more I travel on the history’s timeline the more I can see that this is just the pattern repeating forever, perhaps each time in a new form. So I am not going to worry about my previous presumingly wrong choices. I’ll be make an intelligent decision next time :) and vote, with my smart friends.
My father took me to the school which promised to facilitate sports activities apart from discipline and education. There was no space and budget for sports in the school. I took my son to the school which promised hi-tech setup for learning and collaboration. At the end, I had to spend all my money to get nothing of worthy. I think there will be a school again promising discipline oriented education and my grandson will go there.
Okay, it is not about schools. It is about promises and hopes and disappointments. Generation after generation we vote and elect leaders. I hear hundreds of promises from our politicians in every election. Those are exactly the promises that my heart longs to hear, from the language to religion to no corruption to… freedom. In fact, every election has something on top that gets marketed so well by all the political parties and I am sort of forced to think only on that something. For example, it could be liquor free India in next election. I'll get thousands of alcohol drinking death instances messages and awareness information and statistics across the globe. I’ll forget everything else and choose the party which is more promising in doing that.
These promises and hopes are not just part this generation alone. The more I travel on the history’s timeline the more I can see that this is just the pattern repeating forever, perhaps each time in a new form. So I am not going to worry about my previous presumingly wrong choices. I’ll be make an intelligent decision next time :) and vote, with my smart friends.
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