I am feeling quite disappointed with the state of affairs in our country – well, yeah I know this may feel sudden, but the disillusionment is creeping into me and I feel so disarmed and vain.

U are always told to do the right things, stand up for what is right, speak out if you don’t like anything – but can one really do that? Look at the state of our human right activist – or anyone who cares for a cause! They get shot at brutally, easily, in a matter-of fact manner in broad daylight – when they are out on a walk, in their office, in the garden, absolutely anywhere. And because of what?  Because they choose to stand up for what they believed in? Because they chose to vocalize their thoughts and stand up for the common man. The big voice in my little head keeps telling me to not care – to read it like any other report, to let go and resign to the powerful and I succumb to it. And I cannot help but feel scared – scared to raise a concern, scared to help a passerby, scared to ask a man to step out from a ladies compartment, scared to even tell the auto guy to speed down!! Scared about the repercussions, scared about the ‘what if’s’, scared to make any move.

Can there ever be a time when I truly feel empowered – empowered in expressing what I really feel, to stand up for what is wrong and to not just be a bystander to brutality. I live in hope – till then peace deserts me.