Believe in yourself! Don’t be fooled by rest of the insecured humanity …

As discussions in the “sharm” thread continue to show, many of us are giving in to frustration and a hopelessness that is insidious. But I think here we are getting so because we have the wrong conception of leadership. We expect others to lead us and then get disappointed.

Why do we get disappointed? Because we do not recognize that there is already an ideal of leadership in our minds, against which the real life ones come up as poor caricatures. We subconsciously feel what the right thing should have been to do, and then we get frustrated that the real life “leader” deviates from it.

The first task is to shed this frustration. We punish ourselves for the crime and fault of others. Let us have confidence in our own analysis and conclusions. Let us have confidence in our ability to think through and think for ourselves. Recognize that leadership exists in each of us. From there we can and should think of looking forward, long term, concrete, on a wide front of efforts. In many respects it will be like the confused, sometimes comical and sometimes tragic early lumbering nationalist awakening moving towards a mass movement. That started from similar darkness and hopelessness, where the “evil” appeared overwhelmingly strong and dominant – controlling all machineries of rashtryia power, having liquidated all viable opposition, controlling all levers of ideological control including education and media.

That was the beginning. Let us look forward towards that brilliant destiny again. All sorts of efforts are needed – cultural, spiritual as well as political, and media or communication. It is important to do whatever we can in whatever way possible to disseminate our thoughts. Many will disagree, many will oppose. But we will see a gradual turnaround as the years go by. Do not give up on our people and the coming generations. Even those now within the Congress or other existing political parties or other organizations should realize the necessity of this eventual transition, and should not resent such efforts. In the end, it will benefit even them.

via Bharat Rakshak • View topic – Strategic leadership for the future of India.