My dear friend Soter has had a disturbed night's sleep and has got up with a
start and a heavy head, nevertheless, a start that will go a long way to
help restore normalcy to Goa's erratic and ad-hoc governance. Needless to
say that we appreciate it and welcome it all the more.
We do agree to some extent with Samir when he says 'what other better
alternative'? But the other and better alternative will eventually start a
rat race with people making the best of it both ways. If this will help
Goa in the long run, we do not know.
W.R.T. GSRP
We have gone on record to say that it will be in power when the people of
Goa are ready to be in power.
Whether the people are going to give up bicycles and sewing machines etc.
for POWER is a million dollar question.
Nevertheless, that time must come. And we are confident that it will come
sooner than later.
floriano
goasuraj
PS: We are opening a whole lot of prospects for GSRP critics to rubbish the
above. And we are ready, as always have been, to take them head-on without
prejudice or malice.
----- Original Message -----
From: "soter" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:50 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Stop Blaming! Start Owning!
The problem in Goa and other parts of the country is that politicians get
blamed for anything and everything. We are systematically trained to blame
the Bristish and Portuguese for all our social and communal problems. If not
the British and Portuguese it is the minorities or the fundamenstalists,
or..............
The spouse of the alcoholic always balmes the friends and the bar owner for
the problem. The parent of a delinquent child will blame the bad company of
friends for their wards problem. They all just refuse to see their
contibution to all this.
Just as addiction cannot survive without social acceptance, the political
mess in Goa will not be able to survive without collaborative behaviour of
the goan people. Goa's mess is a social disease an cannot be blamed on
politicians alone.
Blaming others for the problem is nothing but Denial of the problem.
'Denial' is the disease of the ego. It prevents any change.
If we are concerned for Goa let us stop blaming and start owning
responsibility for the mess.
The question should be, 'Do I contribute to this mess? What can I do to
solve this mess?'
Only then will Goa will for what we desire it to be. Let us start from
today.
Jai Ho! Jai Goa!
-soter
