What THE !

The garden city-IT city Bangalore is now BRUHAT Bangalore. The former calm pensioners' paradise has evolved into a burgeoning cosmopolitan today with an unending list of woes. Agreed it is a city of oppurtunities, so well that half of the silicon capital are the non-natives. But no city is custom made for such overbulging crowd, on the other hand is carefully tended and evolved. Although the infrastructure and the amenities are developed by the Government, isnt every citizen responsible for its maintainence?

Scene 1: Sarjapur traffic junction, 6.30 pm
A guy on a bike carrying a bag from one of the reputed software companies. A nice unmanned traffic signal glowing red, this hero jumps the signal and zips vrrroooom (Dude! watz the hurry?)..... the remainin ppl behind him r a confused lot now, some patiently wait for the signal to turn green and some are eager to jump it, so there goes the horns blaring their harmonic cacophony leading to a traffic deadlock ............. with all these ingredients a tasty traffic jam is cooked !!!!

Scene 2: Kormangala, 8.30 am
A stud enters the office cab, he is back to office after a long term onsite (ofcourse outside India)............. he goes on endlessly gloating abt how spic n span that place was so on n so forth and in the process distributes chocolates and the stud collects the chocolate wrappers and callously tosses them outside the window onto the road... What THE ? The minimum requirement needed for the transition from a garden city to a garbage city met !

These scenes are a common sight in blore. And then I hear things like "Uff... bangalore traffic is gettin on my nerves.......Gosh....... how dirty can this place get".......... What THE? I feel like screaming at the top of my voice... "Hypocrites...... blore doesnt really need losers like u, good and bad comes in a package but why dont u consider urself responsible for the bad too!"
The tolerance of the city is being challenged and by whom? None other than the educated lot !!!! Education simply doesnt mean having a plastic wallet, a high end cellphone or as a matter of fact an urbane lifestyle. Are these ppl setout to prove the point "I was born intelligent but education ruined me"...... well education definitely doesnt ruin some basic common sense. Is the educated lot so foolish that they need to be monitored.. supervised.... thats like the worst insult !

Simple things like following the traffic signals, keepin the city clean and taking individual responsibilty for public property can make a big leap of a difference. The most irritating part is the same ppl follow all the rules set out in a foreign country but why is it so blissfully ignored in our own country???? This post goes out for al the educated ones (yes....my NRI fnds included too) to diligently follow the rules....... I know it cant bring abt a revolution but such miniscule of efforts can positively reduce the woes.

This reminds me of MJ's song "Heal the world (err.... blore)...make it a better place for both you and me"..... :)