At God's Own Country

I was finally at home after a gap of more than one and half years. I think every time one comes back home, one notices changes. A few shops having come up, the roads having been broadened and the residents echoing that the traffic has increased. Is this what one calls progress? But the reality remains that change is indeed taking place and it is for the current day policy makers, visionaries and implementors to see that change is for the better.

And yesterday I was with Ashok and Rajkin, my Loyola class mates.(yeah from the nobles group) As it happens everytime, the discussion veered towards dos and donts, right and wrong, black and white and of a variety falling in the same genre. It looks as if we will never be able to manage any other talk. Not even Antony or our esteemed president APJ were spared.

You cannot blame the Loyolites. For they have been known to be bordering on arrogance with an opinion on everything from Bush's policy in Iraq to the Presidential ambitions of Anthony.

In any case yesterday's discussion was on something which we had never taken up? Are Loyolites perennial under achievers in the real world? Do they lack fire to make it to the top and get noticed nationally and internationally? Do they lack the ruthlessness needed to be at the summit of glory?

Alongside some plausible reasons were put forth but real answers were genuinely lacking. Are the qualities of integrity, a sense of what's right and wrong, a conscience higher than what is required, some of the things which holds a Loyolite back? May be yes, but then what is also very much true is that they lack the fire and drive to be famous...

Yet, the hope still remains that one day there will be a Loyolite or may be a "nobles" on the front page of some of the best selling magazines in the country...Who knows? Or is it a case of pure delusion monstered in the minds of a few self loving Loyolites!

Ashok espouses one school of thought, when he said..."There is a duty for every Loyolite towards this society..." A proposition which may not find favour with many like Rajkin, but still the answers need to be found. May be someday...