Self Confidence

Do you want to see India as a developed country and not developing country? Did you ever feel that Westerners should wait in queues for getting Indian visa? Can this be possible?

Yes, it is possible but not right away!! There are lot of things that need to change in India and among Indians and one of the most important things is to have confidence in ourselves and we should try to encourage ourselves instead of mocking at ourselves all the time. We need to believe that we are capable of doing something that nobody in this world can do.

We always think that the best things in the world are done by anyone but India. We always mock at someone who really tries to do something out of the ordinary. We always discourage them saying we can never match something done by others. Even if somebody achieves something great, we will be waiting for his next failure so that we can bring his success down saying it was a flash in the pan.

Recently India won the T20 world cup. We were all ecstatic. The media carried the team on their shoulders and showered all the laurels. 2 months later, the same team lost a test match miserably. That happens to any team and it is part of every sport. The next day in the news, I saw people questioning the world cup win. People had all sorts of doubts about the world cup win. Someone thought that it was fixed. Someone said we are back to our roots. This is what we are anyways.

This attitude of ours has been very well shown in the movie "Chak De India". Remember those scenes during the world cup where there is a commentator doing the commentary during the matches. He says "Ek baar phir bharat ki sharmnaak haar". Next time you see this movie, count how many times he says this. There is not a single positive thing he says about Indian players. if you look at the commentators from other countries, you will never see them discouraging their team even when they have lost miserably. We should always encourage ourselves. There should be positive critisism but never writing somebody off.

We need to have confidence in ourselves, have positive attitude, encourage ourselves and we should compete at the global level. These would be the first steps towards becoming a developed nation. As always I welcome your comments and suggestions.