The Gangster in us

In the Telugu film, Shiva, there is a dialogue by the villian, Bhavani : " Nanaji, ee oorulo manam em chesina chelluthundhi antey jananiki mana meedha vunna bhayam kanaka", which means" Nanaji, whatever crime we do in this city is passable just because of the fear the public has got upon us". This is what carries, most of us, away in what we do. Right from the school days we have this tendency of forcing our ideas on our juniors or our friends who look upto you and listen seriously to what you say. Doesn't matter how big or small you tried to influence them, but all of us definitely get carried away when someone expresses slightest fear or anxiety in what you do and what you say. On a large scale this is what must be happening in the crime circle right from a petty thief to a gangster. Its not the weapons that they use matters to them but its the fear factor, that, a set of people residing in a colony has got on a thief , to, the public and police has got on a dreadful gangster. The reason for him to get carried away is that he is alone and there are none to influence his thoughts or mind. But what if he was in school during childhood surrounded by a set of friends? In most of us this sort of 'getting carried away by others fear upon you' attitude dies as we move from school, college to work and then settle down as a public, since we also get influenced by the people around us and that neutralizes effect. So in a way we all are fortunate to have been through school not for the fact that all of us compete to score a centum in a board examination but to refine ourselves as a human being.

Bottomline: Its like an ad campaign I thought of targeting countless parents who force their children on scoring a decimal higher than his/her competitor in the school. Education is not about the numbers in the examinations but its the peronality that churns out in each and everyone of us.