A Letter on Independence Day..

My dear friends,

Today is Independence Day.
Finally another holiday. For everyone.
To us youngsters this means one more lazy morning to get up late. To housewives means another round of shopping at the heavily discounted rates at the nearby mall. In all for everyone it is another day to either have fun or snore out at home.

On other note..It is no hidden thing that today we are extensively hooked to our cell phones. We never lose a chance to type a message whatever we are doing. Be it studying, eating, walking..anything. And that to in our own shorthand extremely popular style.

Hi!! H r u??
C ya @ 5
tc :)

Mornings seem wasted if don't see our mobile flashing any unread message. And if its Valentines day or Friendship day or New Year, it has to be 15 unread, 20 or more.

For Independence Day?
Can Anyone claim to have send or received even a single message? Yes??
I am sorry, but we the youth generation don't have that spirit, or excitement of this particular day.

The thing that may sound remote to this topic is that we have lost our way amid trying to be akin to tha West. We have our ears plugged in with our iPod playing the latest songs. And even if we get a rhythm of national anthem playing somewhere, we ignore it as just another passe song. Though we stand up in theaters when this melody is played, much to annoyance of many. We stand up only because it will look ridiculous sitting at such a time. N even while standing, all are busy either twiddling their thumbs on their cellphones or scratching their bottoms.

Lines of national anthem?? God knows..
Meaning of the lines?? God knows, maybe..
When we have saluted our tricolor?? In our school.

Forget being guilty, if you are on all these things and start right away. We should know that we are the most potent force to spread awareness for anything. We should organize a flag mast in our area. Just give our Independence Day its ten minutes of our precious time by hoisting and saluting our flag as the beloved national anthem is played. If this not possible try to reach a place where such thing is happening and do a small duty for our country.

I am not saying that we should all be a diehard patriotic. All I am asking is to probe the little Indianness in you and give some recognition to our Independence Day.

May God give me the power to follow what I preach.

Thanks for reading my letter.

Jai Hind

--Aziz