Monday, March 31, 2008

It is said that each day brings new lessons to be learnt with it,irrespective of age or anything else.Till today i used to believe that politics was nothing but a skill that had to be developed and only a few were born with it,but from what i observed today and from some past experience,I must admit that i was wrong.Politics is indeed a quality which comes inbuilt into our mechanism.Everyone plays politics at one point or another in one's life and needless to say,it is mostly for his/her own interest.Even a child plays politics by misleading someone else so that he can get what he desires.Politics is banal among adults...may it be in sports,career,office,anything and everything under the roof.
One may do it innocently or subconsciously or one may do it deliberately but the point is that everyone does it, though no one may admit it.Even in difficult situation,one will always think of safeguarding his interest first and then only will he think of helping others who are in the same situation.One may argue that this is an natural instinct and cannot be said to be politics but one forgets that in protecting his interest,the person either directly or indirectly may be posing obstacles in other people's path.Many times there may be an internal conflict of choosing between personal goals and general goals and this is where the person's nature,attributes come to the fore.
The views expressed here are personal and are most likely to be contentious.I would like to conclude by saying that in desperate situations even the most selfless people have said "EACH ONE ON HIS OWN"

9 comments:

nishit said...

always remember
" one man's calamity is other man's windfall"
so there will be politics to emerge as a winner in the rat race

but the point is even after winning u still remain a rat.

chirag said...

thank you for the reply,that is precisely the lesson i have learnt in the past few days.

akhil said...

hey chirag,
gr8 one yaar,i liked it..
it was well written and i liked da ending most.i wud say politics is played by self centred as well selfish people...self centred ppl obv being less harmful...
all in all twas a good one!

chirag said...

thnx for th comment.....
the very next day after i wrote the blog..i discovered that every bit i had written was true...though i am only disappointd by going through this phase where i m not comfortable ...i only wished i was wrong......

Nits said...

hmm...chi...very true man...
even i must have done something like this for sure mebbe without realising or probably on purpose...but the point is...
We always have an option, it depends on u, what u choose!

Shiv said...

Wow Chirag, this was in 'reality', a strong article. I think you must have experienced something and let it out in the form of words, as your emotions can be felt on this side of the computer. I must say, very few people are altruistic in this world. The politics ingrained in the system may eventually convert them , but few out of those hundreds, stick to their fundamentals and idealogies. The last line was fantastic, but I still think those 'few' may not come under it. If I may give an example, the captain is always the last person to leave the ship. Even in the film Volcano, the manager throws the driver and himself gets burned in the lava. What say Chirag?

chirag said...

@ nitin..
what u choose shows your real character but many a times it may so happen that looking at the big picture,you tend to make certain decisions which may seem egocentric to some...it's a web u can never come out of

chirag said...

@shiv
that was some comment!!!thnx
what u r looking at is a specific case...what do u think,that captain or whoever the person is has lived his whole life thinking of others only??
At some point in his life,he must have thought of himself first..maybe not deliberately but still....
i hope u get my point...

Nits said...

wen r u writing the next one....
check my blog...updated tht...