The Chennai Apocalypse

As usual, much was being talked about the Chennai floods. The floods have reduced, the water has receded and if you have noticed the frequency of the flood news in the leading news agencies have reduced. The biggest irony being that we make hue and cry, talk big after every such incident, only to forget about it comfortably. Why this much anger and cry after Chennai floods, why not after the floods which affected Uttarakhand last year, the floods which affect North East every year, the floods which are common in Damodar valley, the numerous landslides which happen every monsoon etc. Have we ever learnt anything after every such incident?

So, we should infer at least now, that no amount of disasters are going to enlighten us. We are a nation which has become too acclimatized with comfort of the lazy kind. We are not interested in how disasters are going to affect us. If it affects, it affects and then life goes on. We will post messages that we are strong and move on with life. After all we cannot satiate our hunger for comfort, money and power. Have the hunger and keep going or else die, for life has no other meaning and requires you to do nothing more. Gone are the days when we used study that we have to take actions taking into account their effect on the posterity. Let's forget the posterity and talk about the present. 

So, I request everybody to stop making such comments. And if and only if there is a thinking that source of every ocean is a drop of water, then act rather than talking. After all, action speak louder than words.