Selfish

Face it! The world is full of it. Not even a soul who doesn't possess this vice. And I am not going to be a holy saint who preaches to people saying "My dearest children, we must not be selfish and kill each other". There is never a sentence in calvin and hobbes that is wrong and hobbes is right! "We are here to devour each other".

Now why does it require special mention? All of us are grown up enough to know we are not good people and we dont require a "Hi Everyone :):)"blog to tell us that. Lets rewind our lives back to the time when we were innocent children (yes even if you knew everything about life then you were still innocent!). Ask a child and it will tell you that it wants to work towards the environment, it wants to do good to the society etc., As a kid I too wanted to do good to the environment. But look at me now. I have become this painfully mediocre person who does not care about anything other than herself. A full day will pass and I would not get even ten seconds to think about what good I am to the society. Maybe I am wrong but at least in my friends circle I see people working hard everyday and achieving well, not to do good to the society or the environment but to themselves.

Yes thats how it is. The world has become a savage place. But if we have the slightest inclination to save our future generations then we would think about whether we should be so selfish after all.. Fossil fuel reserves will exhaust very soon, CO2 levels will increase to unprecedented levels. An appropriate evaluation is a summer in Bangalore. 4 years ago a summer in bangalore would be equivalent to a winter in trichy or chennai. Now, its only slightly better than a summer in chennai. This is what each of our selfishness put together and magnified does to our society. It can make a "pensioner's paradise", a "garbage dump".

In another year, I am going to graduate as a chemical engineer and all my friends will graduate as some engineer as well. But I dont know out of the 700 of us who are going to graduate how many of us will involve ourselves directly in the good of the environment. (hardly 2 or 3, and I am being very generous) And we are supposed to save mankind in another 20 years, during the prime of our lives.

I did not blog to say we all should drop all that we have at hand and work towards the environment but we can do little things that can save the community. We can segregate plastic waste. We can switch off an extra luxury light that we may be using. In future whatever work we do, maybe we can set aside a portion of our salary towards this cause. But something has to be done!!