Be Informed And Involved

Known is the hospitality, but inconvenience is a crime

Yes I know who the culprit is; plethora of information helps me define?

Thanking the mushrooming media networks of today, we are all supplied with huge amounts of data that feeds into our preferred belief segment. We attract what we believe – is the concept yet again applicable here. We have been given a power machine which thinks and perceives, but if we feed in inferior raw materials, the output is certain to be sub-standard and vice versa holds true as well.

Many a times, urge of speaking or opinionating about a person, situation or incident super-powers our rational thinking. We force ourselves to follow a league whose motive or thoughts we may or may not have completely comprehended. This can be hugely catastrophic as others who follow to join our league then, will also be sharing this ‘raw and still unreliable data’ as ‘information’.

Whenever we hear revered personalities like Late Mr. Abdul Kalam Azad, Mother Teresa, Swami Vivekanand and others who we respect, there is an inherent belief that what they speak makes immense sense. This belief is generated because they are all responsible speakers and never felt the need to give opinion on everything existing.

A very simple rule of communication should be to know the “What, Where, How, Why and When” of the information that we are disseminating. This allows us to be a responsible communicator and not just another person from the crowd speaking.

Referring to the recent incident of Indigo Airlines, where a passenger was supposedly manhandled by the ground staff – we can see a great number of meme creators, comment posters, news sharing persons and other highlighters of the news. Personally, a thought crossed my mind: How many of us are actually aware of what happened and how? It’s not the first day of operation of the airlines, the employees are not new, the said passenger was not travelling for the first time – basically there was a hindrance in routine task of all the involved entities. Suddenly the entire airline company is put to blame by one segment while few others feel the passenger did something unpleasant leading to the entire incident.

Sadly, I am still stuck at ‘How many of us are actually aware of what happened and how?’

We are all actually burdening ourselves too much with everything that is not even required for us to ponder upon. Can we ask how our opinions and filling up comments helps the situation handlers? A statement coming from fellow passengers and the airlines would probably suffice as they are the parties whose actions have influence over the SOLUTION that needs to come.

It is very important to understand that unless we are either completely informed or in any way involved in anything, we cannot spread our words just for the sake of it. It does no good but it takes away our time and mental effort which we could have put to a better and productive use – maybe to use that couple of minutes to call up an old friend and ask about his/ her whereabouts.

There is so much where our presence is necessary, why to compromise on them while trying to put our resources to use at places where we are not adding any value – rather probably heightening confusion and adding to the chaos. If we are responsible in our presence, lot of solutions would themselves find their way in the society.