Death, for every individual remains to be the ultimate fear. And, from what we have been observing ever since the last decade, this fear just gets closer each day.
I, as a member of the media fraternity, I as an Indian or let me place it this way, I just as any 21 year old from Mumbai, have no words to describe as to what just happened 52 hours back.
Rage, distress and agitation we have been managing forever, but what about the helplessness, the absolute paralysis of our minds. Yes, I do feel really blessed that me and my family are alive today, but we are emotionally not very far from dead, and, its not just the condition of my family, but every family in the city today.
I am just tired, I am tired of blaming people, I am tired of trusting people and most significantly I am sick tired of bouncing back from a situation like this. How much can a human mind absorb? There is a limit to all of this. There is a limit to revenge, a limit to caste based injustice. What the hell are we doing?
Believe me, today, I am really angry with whatever happened, but, I am also not frightened to say, I feel really bad for every Muslim in our country. How scared those innocent people would be? I am sad for those Pakistanis who were unaware of all this, who will be highly ashamed of whatever happened and the kind of circumstances their country would face as a result of this.
Yes, I don’t care about how coward I may sound as an Indian, I may sound very offensive and should be very very angry at our neighboring country. But, I strongly feel the generation today needs to wake up. I don’t care what religion I belong to, I freaking don’t care which political party I may support, why on this earth should I care of what caste these 15-20 terrorists (mentally challenged- as I term the noun) belonged to? Yes, but I do care of the enormous loss of life in my country, the kind of illiteracy that prevails in the world today, I do care of every blood drop on the soil of this city in the past 52 hours, I do care as a generation of today, for humanity alone and absolutely nothing else.
I thus appeal to all my friends for peace irrespective of their origin. And I open this forum for all of us to not criticize or ridicule anybody, because we have had enough of all that, seriously. Lets together, as a rational , educated adult think of as many ways in which this can be prevented from occurring ever again at an individual level or from the Government side.
Finally, I salute each and every NSG and RAF commando, every IPS officer for doing what they have done for us. It is impossible to imagine what we would do without them in the last three days.
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