My sole purpose to write this post is to spread the awareness about some good activity going on in our society which your eyes might not have noticed yet. But in the beginning you have to bear me with my life.
The environment of BNSD Shiksha Niketan, the games I played in SHAKHA, the tution of PRAN sir has inculcated a seed of social service inside me.
Being backed by RSS (Rashtriya swayamsevak sangh), in BNSD we used to listen & present on stage the inspirational stories of great personalities. We used to celebrate birthday of various freedom fighters, social workers, saints and a lot many others. The good thing was we were only focusing only on their bright side. We were taught about our culture, duties for society, Desh Prem, respect for women, self confidence & all that which are considered as rubbish & bullshit by today's teen.
I was part of SHAKHA, an effort by RSS to make kids sporty. There i used to play games with all the kids of the locality.
I came across PRAN sir, a IIT-JEE physics teacher, who not only made physics interesting but also told us about his contribution to society.
All this made me a little more inclined towards society. I wished i could remove poverty, illiteracy & fill the gap between 80% poor and 20% rich Indians. But i never acted because so people around me had their own dreams depending on me & fulfilling them was part of my duty.
In college I went to government school & slum once with seniors. Many times i was misled by various, so called wise professionals that all these NGO's & social work is a money making business. Let it be, but if you don't want to get corrupted nobody can force you.
After coming to Bangalore frankly speaking i never got time to think over it. But all of a sudden but silently someone came into my life & ignited the cold dying fire inside of me. Recession was crippling our economy & I was busy earning bread & butter. Then someone told me about YFS (Youth For Seva). You get boost up when you see someone as capable as you is able to do something, you had been frightening for years.
Today i went to YFS meeting, I went there with the perception that most of the crowd will comprise of government servants, local BA/BSc graduates but upto my surprise i saw many advanced young professionals. The crowd was no other than the crowd of FORUM mall. you know what is signifies, it proves that a part of the 20% capable population of India is willing to change the life of the rest 80%.
I fall into that 5% population who earn more than 5 lpa. I can lose thousands of rupees in stock market but i can never think of sponsoring a child's education, arranging meals for kids, donating for orphans/old people or even donate blood. But i can happily give my time & labour to the society through YFS.
In the end I just want to say one dialogue from the movie Spiderman "with great power comes great responsibility" , all of you reading this blog comes under those 2% Indians that have internet access which means that you have some potentials in you & you should use it for the welfare of society. Nobody can change you against your will, but without giving it a try i dont want to be called a loser.
http://www.youthforseva.org/
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