Admist many a things, it happened to me once and i thought about it multiple time.
Well i saw a orphan "SPIT" lying on road, well that's a very common experience in India. I saw it, felt disgusted and automatically quenched my tongue back to help my saliva glands secrete a personal bout of saliva, which i will wobble inside my mouth to create spit. All this was a daemon process which is a reflex and i would spit on the spit, as an ovation or holy water that my spit is sacred enough to nullify someone's disgusting spit.
Well but post this event i thought, if i also spit then i burn down to the same category of the disgusting person and well my spitting doesnt change much (as the road's already marred). But then i had to do something from this to happen and atleast i dont want to be an active contributor to such an nonsensical but important stuff . What could i do i thought, as i was being torn into two segment the "Indian Action" and the "Non-Indian Developed Country Action". Well if was in Singapore maybe some police man could have spotted me and billed a 50$ fine. But in India i am all liberated. There's no-body to govern me in here, leave that no-one will even notice that i am spitting (over a spit). And if someone do notice it, at max he/she will gimme a screwed and disgusted look (as if it matters to me). Or if he/she is true indian in nature, he/she will spit back on the same spot or at somewhere in a near vicinity.
Is it important that what i am doing, some one has to discontinue right. Maybe i should be the bearer for the noble cause. To keep even my country clean ( well many Indians dont extend their toughts of cleanliness beyond the premises of their dwelling ).
But then for a new civilization to rise, the older one has to crumble. I had to squash my own instincts , crush them to dearth, i had to do it. I had to swallow the bout back again. I felt the path the saliva followed inside my body, and felt how my mind was liberated. I felt all this in a moment go. But i would like to remember for the rest of my life.
Well my Indian instinct was killed for this stuff but i was back at bargaining while buying Stevens from a local book shop. :D
Well not all Indian habit are bad.
2 comments:
Well..I would say good job Soumen...First for the sake of writing this impressive blog and second, for trying to reinginte "rang de basanti" fire.
I would say that this is not an Indian "mentality" to spit back on road....no Ind1an would dare to do that outside India,the reasons maybe either due to the fear to get busted by police or just a sense of responsiblity to keep their society clean being influenced by the native culture. I believe the later reason is more prominent. Thererfore this cannot be an individual contribution to keep the society green and clean but needs a social and mass conscience awekening.It is a habit that needs to be cultivated and well preserved for no other "!SPIT" experience.
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