How often in our busy lives we feel responsible towards society? it is more easy to crib or point out negative aspects of the society we live in without realising in how many ways or how many times have we contributed towards building a better society. One such time in my life is when I took the responsibility to vote. For the first time. I am generally not too much of a cribber because I carry the awareness of knowing that I haven’t been an active participant in making my surrounding a better one.

But the one thing that I complain about the most is civic sense. And it often concludes in how unaware most people are about what they’re doing and how they’re being. By watching latest marvel production or any other Hollywood film and by listening to international music doesn’t really make us “international”. And I say international is because most countries like the United States, Britain, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and many more have most citizens who carry a lot of civic sense, but that’s another issue completely.

So, one thing I have been focusing on is being responsible for my actions, basically for everything that comes from me or is about me. so I decided to complain less and do more. And as the great ones have said, “Neki Kar, kue mein daal”, which means do good and put it in well. But since my generation has a logical way of thinking I feel we should do something first and then talk about the negative aspects. 

Every year during election time I saw my parents, Grandparents, other family members get ready and go to cast their vote for the party that promised to make my country a better one or what they believed was working on giving us a better future. Off course based on past results and performance of the political party they voted. In my teenage a lot of my friends started to vote. Then came social media age where they would put a picture of their inked finger to show millions that they voted. And sitting and looking at those posts did get a feeling in me that I should go vote too and I can also put up a picture there and be a part of this “inked finger revolution”. It was still easy to look at it on my cellphone or laptop and forget about it a moment later. Problem was, when I met these friends who voted and hung out with me for hours, off course with their inked fingers, that made me feel left out. And how I wished if they could leave this finger at home and come so we would all look same. Fact was that we were all the same, but honestly I wasn’t one of them. Because they exercised their right to cast a vote. Which made them 100% more responsible in this aspect than me. Which also gave them inked finger!

Casting a vote is our right and we must exercise our right. Also let me tell you that it is the most coolest thing to do! It gets a sense of awareness of how political parties are contributing towards making our society a better one. How they’re acting upon correcting things and promising a better world to us. And believe me the one thing I don’t want to see personally is a dying farmer out of poverty or by committing sucide. because I come from a family of farmers & we still own large land in our native place & we grow pulses and vegetables. My father never did any of it but his father did it for sure. So you see the connection of coming from a background where we are a little something that contributes in growing wheat, rice & pulses. 

Coming back to my city where I was born and grew up I have seen the transition of seeing less motor vehicles on roads to now every person owning a motor vehicle. Thanks to 100,000 Inr car, now every person has a vehicle!  In comparison, i wonder if people ever thought of planting a single sapling in their entire life. Who bothers to make a deliberate effort to make the city green? Any way, this also makes me from the complaining generation. 

In past 5 years I have seen some visible changes in the mindset of majority of the population in my country. I find them flamboyant, expressive and off course we are from the Twitter generation. Past 5 years have been great for my country growing digitally. Past 5 years we have seen a clear vision that has been set for the betterment of my nation. And that again makes me from the “transition age”. There is a long way to go. Off course I fear that by the time we reach there the rest of the world would have gone far ahead. But that doesn’t really take the focus away from our goal. If possible we can get that too while growing together as a nation.

I urge and request each and every one to please make a voters card. To please go and vote for the political party you think, in your opinion is doing good for the nation and is going to give your country a better tomorrow. Because we deserve it. We are one of the smartest generations and lets use it to the optimum.

Also, you get an inked finger and will no longer hide your face or feel little about yourself to not be responsible enough to go and cast your vote.

In my country India, making a voters card today is the most easiest thing to do. As easy as going to e-com shopping website, selection and item, checking for all parameters like size colour etc, putting the item in basket, checkout, pay and viola!