Sky Wars

It's just a few hours into the morning, the sun had just about started spreading its wings when the clouds came in fighting for the limelight. The picture here brings out the conflict in the sky.

Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai

The statement suddenly seems to have a new meaning to me. Lately I have had extensive interactions with people inhabiting the land to the north-east of my country. Beyond that I came across an article in the National Geographic Magazine and it surprised me, how similar we are. Really! You have to read the article to know what I am saying, to actually experience the feeling of oneness. (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/china/journey/hessler-text)

The article takes the reader through various aspects of the country, viz. the highest rate of GDP growth (similar to ours, just that they have had it for over 3 decades now), the real estate boom, the growing urbanization, the generation gap, the bureaucracy, the divide between the lower and the upper class, the growing middle class that is trying the bridge the gap unsuccessfully and many more such things. What struck me was that we really were so similar but yet we look upon each other as rivals, enemies, someone we need to grow beyond.

I have always believed in the good of the world, I believe every human being is a nice person, their actions are a result of ambitions or circumstances that could be very similar to ours, hence our perception in their mind is the same as their's in our's.

Can't we change this, each of us have weakness and strengths, can't we work together to make the other more efficient and hence better than the rest in the world? They have a, English language problem, which we can address, we have a manufacturing efficiency problem which I'm sure they can help us with, this while we can also help them with being better at the service industry, then there are things that neither of us can help, like the severe paucity of palatable water and the aging population of China versus the perpetual instability of the government problems here. Each of the country can look at few of the above problems and try to pacify ourselves about how one of these problems will bring the other one down but no one seems to be thinking of how to co-exist better.

Competing is good, while happily co-existing is other. This is a personal view but I believe competing at an individual level is nice and should prevail but between nations, it should be a feeling of harmoniously co-existing. I know what I am talking about can looked as either Utopian or just lack of competitive spirit but I think it's the one way in which the world can exist for longer in a livable state, if each of the nations try being the best then there will be conflict and its not the thing we want to leave back for the next generation.

I'll leave this topic open, as this is not the conclusion, but a point to be discussed, if you have any thoughts please feel free to leave your comments behind, would love to discuss the same.