Someone like you…….

Someone like you…….

On some children specific channel a famous cartoon show Doremon, is being aired. To those who don’t know about Doremon, it’s a cartoon show in which; a very talented and well equipped with futuristic scientific gadgets a robot “Doremon” is gifted by a future grand son to his past grand father. Just to make his own (grandson’s) future better and control the stupidity of his grandfather. Future grandson gifts a robot (Doremon) to his grand father (Nobita).

Doremon and Nobita are friends. They share a strong bonding of friendship and humanity. In such a small span of time this show gained popularity. Not only the children but adults too like it very much. Doremon is an intelligent and resourceful robot, where as Nobita is a normal school going boy with average I.Q. Nobita often does something or other and invites troubles for him and with every such menace he approaches Doremon for his assistance. No matter in the show every now and then Nobita err and leaves no stone unturned to irritate his known, yet I take his side, not Doremon despite being him rational, emotional, intelligent and helpful.

Whenever, I see this show I always stand by Nobita and no matter how good a friend like Doremon supports him, I always consider it his duty. I could hardly develop any favorable opinion about Doremon. For two obvious reasons, number 1 I have grown up with the ideology that resourceful and mighty should help the needy. Second thing, not necessarily but when someone is there to help you what’s the harm of availing it. And not to void but in some corner of my mind I have a feudal mind set as well that tells me that it’s your dependent's (servant’s) responsibility to manage the shit. However, if I denounce all the ideology; even though my sympathy will remain with Nobita. Because we live in a society, where having a soft corner with the underprivileged is very common.

Similarly, those were the days when we used to watch action movies and our sympathy and compassion remained confined to ill fated hero, who are duped by villain very often, robbed or faced injustice. I used to get so much furious when the hero was beaten by the villains that I often used to pray from the God to bless him with more power and tactics. Practically nothing wrong in it because sympathy and compassion are the outcome of our personal shortcomings. We develop an association with underdog. It starts reflecting our own image. Frowned, agitated, compelled, and young and under served all the personality traits starts popping up in one’s mind. Rich-Poor, Educated- Uneducated, Urban-Rustic and you keep on adding acronyms of social strata, all those are parts of society and gradually injected to our thoughts. The difference and comparison becomes void because we support the underprivileged.  

What I personally believe that our compassion with underprivileged are circumstantial and not innate. We have lived several years of slavery and rejection that somehow or other it injected into our blood. Moreover, most of the middle class and daily bread earner have compassion with them because they are some how fall into the same category. No matter how others perceive it. If a person from remote district goes to a city and after some time when he returns his home, unlike the money he earns everybody believes that he has a good life there. Which he often fakes and wishes it to be true. We all live in a pseudo world that we create for safeguarding our self. We hate capitalist, affluent, and corporate and sympathize with poor, under privileged etc. And we have different parameters to judge them, on their human and values, their education, their piece of mind and blah-blah. But we also want to be one of them.

Frankly speaking I call it safeguarding oneself, the reason is simple the failure has to blamed to someone else. And another thing, we all need a supporting figure that cannot only support us but also stand by our odd days. It has been often seen that people with less social amiability tend to have a suicidal tendency. We don’t need a friend or god father to tell us what is right or wrong but at time we need someone who can correct our mistake. If I compare these things in the light of developed and developing countries scenario, I find a lot of difference in the upbringing of their offspring. In developed countries not only the cost of living is very high but education too as a reason some of the countries like Australia have allowed to provide free education to the students till their matriculation. However, government is not sure whether they would be able to continue their studies or not there after. Despite the fact, their education system is much more complex and advance compared to developing nations. The value of their education credentials is more. We have plenty of examples of brain drain working in a developed nation for mere a few dollars. Another, thing that one can spot there that despite a normal living standard most of the population of these developed countries are living under debt. Even though they are happy, they believe in Utopian ideology unlike noted thinker Charvaka philosophy of life explains of taking debt to fulfill all your wishes. However, the impact of this is pervasive and they are risk taker where as in other developing nation we believe in saving and debt is considered bad.

Despite the fact that present happiness is more important than tomorrow’s, people of developing countries have significantly low suicidal tendency. Their believe on Karma and God helps them to blame it to others and a status of satisfaction develops. However, this might not help to overcome the situation of self-reliant rather bring forth more and more fatalist in the nation. The number of beggars, pseudo- god believers and worshipers you come across here, you might not find in some other countries.

So the question comes up in our mind why only few are successful and affluent where as a large number of people are under privileged and pine for success? Be it developed or developing nation for that matter. The reason is simple; forget about developed nation where despite of having resources the opportunity is open to all to be successful which is not true in most of the developing nations. Where not only resources are confined to affluent and resourceful people but they also close the doors for rest to come up. And again thanks to the fatalist approach and Karma ideology, to which they are confining their notions, views and ability under bushes believing that people might scoff off them for being different from the rest. Believing that someday everything will be fine; there will be a judgment day when everything will be public spade a spade. And that is the biggest folly that they are dwelling into. Mythological and spiritual fables has suffused their minds so pervasively that they are blind to see a dream of their success and engrossed in gone by old days and Utopian state.

If you look closely you will find that most of the stories and flicks became successful out of this psychology. Remember the famous story book of J.K.Roling “Harry Potter”, it earned fame mainly because of people’s compassion and sympathy with Mogul Harry. We all undermining our ability and skills and believing that someday some one like Doremon will come to our life to solve all our miseries and problems. We all looking for a guiding post; a mentor or perhaps an external source of motivation to help us to over come from the dilemma of “what to do and what not to do.”