Happily Ever After

"They lived Happily ever after" was the ending for the different stories which we listened to as kids. As we grew up, got too busy, and too little time to listen to stories of others. Somehow even the good or bad realities (not stories) from the media do not have a lasting impact on most of us. They have become more like our childhood stories or movies, where we are engaged and we feel about them only for that particular moment. Most of the problems do not directly effect us, nor we have the time to think and implement solutions. We just move on Happily Ever After.

The 100-150 points of stock exchange variations have more impact on most of us and marked for something to be followed up, not an average twelve deaths of farmers in most villages of different states. These no longer even contribute to the breaking stories, nor flash news for the media who thrive to fill in our grandmas shoes for telling us true stories . Hurley's Big Indian marriage, Shilpa's kiss, Cold war inside team India, Quattrocchi's whereabouts are some of the most important topics they believe majority of the nation should watch and discuss in that little time, so that even if they forget, they have a very little impact and everyone could just move on happily ever after.

The MTV watching, Internet using youth sometimes comment about some of these issues in the new world of Internet. They contribute to the intellectual source of identifying how crap the system is and how damn the government works. Commenting on almost every forum which discusses about India, live happily ever after. They got more entertaining stuff to get hold onto for more time.

To end, Amitabh Bacchan claiming to be farmer is something watched by the majority, and thoroughly discussed for sometime and forgotten. If a farmer watches the same episode argues why in the hell does Amitabh ji wants to become a farmer? Is his situation worse than mine in films? has his bottle of local liquor and sleeps happily( not ever after) but that night thinking may be his situation his just better than Amitabh's and with the pride of saying even Amitabh is a farmer.

We discuss, we criticize, we move on. We just don't ACT.