does it prick enough?

Outraged, and horrified! that’s what I am. Petrified, terrified and angry. I questioned every body, I blamed the politicians, the police, the army, the navy , the intelligence…….and so on, we know the list is not small.
Then finally I questioned myself.
What did u do? What was your reaction when there was a blast in Ahmadabad, and Assam recently?
We come home and when we are informed that 50 died in a bomb blast in Ahmadabad, what do we do? Call few relatives there( if we have any located in that place), eat food and go of to sleep. We did not react then, why are we petrified today? Do we have rights to question when we did not react for years and years. We never reacted on blasts that normally happen in Srinagar every second day, Why? In fact that’s not a news anymore for us, we accept it, its normal, it happens everyday, there is nothing new in it.
People in Kashmir have forgotten that a human can die a natural death, but we go on. We have accepted the fact. We never reacted on Manipur blasts, on Vietnam blasts, on Iraq’s situation and now we want justice, we want safety.
Do we vote, do we take 2 steps forward to even go and make our voting cards?
Then why are we so angry? Who are we pissed with? Whom should we get pissed with? Who deserves to be questioned? And why are we questioning now?
We are questioning coz its happening to us, its happening around us, its happening to our people, our people’s people, the people whom you have met at least once in your life, now that’s what’s pricking us, and now its pricking enough, coz when we think, that we could be the one, we feel horrified.
We all are selfish, we don’t care of human rights and we don’t care about anything but our selves, and that includes each of us. U & ME.
When I question, why is it happening? The only answer is, it had to happen for us to realize something needs to be done. Because this was the only way for us to realize, it had to happen personally with us.
All of us who are passing statements saying, I hate the word ‘acceptance’ and ‘moving on’ and ‘Mumbai spirit‘, are very well a part of those statements, even if you dint use it verbally, u always practiced it. Coz u moved on, u mourned, grieved and moved on, for years and years. Terrorism is not today’s word, its happening from a decade, yes but it just entered our comfort zones, that’s why its something we all want to fight for.
And what are we doing even now? Surfing face book, writing notes and posting comments, that’s what we call fighting? lets not excuse ourselves by saying that I did what I could. You could do much more then this, you don’t know your potentials yet. You could do much more by going to the hospitals, donating blood, helping patients, clearly protesting about it, fight till the end, question till you got your answers and most importantly you could go and vote.
People lets come up with plans to show are anger, and lets protest big time, not just for Mumbai blast, but for all the people in Kashmir, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq , Afghanistan, Pakistan, and all those places and people who are fighting alone from years and years. Lets extend our hands to them. Lets not just talk and write notes and post comments, lets do it.
There was this small story I had once heard in a business training.
A dog was sitting at the corner of a rocking chair. As the master rocked the chair forward the dog would bark, and when the chair would go back he would stop barking. The neighbors were tired of the barking sound every second minute. One fine day they decided to protest, they went to the master and protested for the irritating sound and asked him to look into the problem. They realized that a nail was pricking the dog whenever the chair was rocked forward. They all wondered why the dog did not get up and moved from there. After a while master solved the query, I realize its pricking but not enough for him to take the efforts to get up and move out of his comfort zone.
Now the question is, is it pricking enough? Or we need more mishap and more blast’s so that we come out of our comfort zones, from our busy schedules, from our family, entertainment, jobs and money.
Its for us to decide now.