Remember the time when you had a grudge against authority, against injustice and against inequality. Most probably the time was your Youth. There was a hidden fire which is looking to become a conflagration , there was no thought of dousing it at all. What then you did as a mark of protest was breaking the social norms...But only those social norms which do not cause any damage to society even if they are broken. So you took to smoking, carried out fights in the street and in the home, did drugs , danced to rock music and all those "Marks Of Protest". As the time passed you realized that this protest is worthless and it didn't take you anywhere. So that fire of non-conformity finally scummbed to the pressures of "making a living " and having an "acceptable lifestyle".
After all these years you find that you have gained the acceptance of society but also became a hollow being inside. So one wonders whether it is better to fight a losing battle or no battle at all?
Two mistakes have been done here. First when you took wrong ways to protest.The protest towards society was those "suggested by society itself".Though one can be pardoned on the basis of naviety. But the second mistake is what you had consciously chosen i.e.to douse the fire yourself.
There is a hidden revolutionary in all of us. There is a little voice in us which is telling us everyday to make a solid change to society in which we are living. Yet sometimes misdirected, sometimes silenced by ourselves, this fire inside us is not able to achieve what is its goal. And it does not mean that we should leave our jobs to get into streets. It simply means that we need to avoid looking in the Black-and-white. Full fledged war or no war. Infact one can start by a small change itself, but for that you need to accept that changing society is also a part of your responsibility.
It is only by giving strength to that hidden revoulutionary and that igniting that fire again albeit directed this time, can we hope to justify our existence in the world.
