Hiralious

I was exposed to the nation's way of dealing with problems from the very start. In the classroom, I used to sit in the front row, sometimes when  some student from the back would complain that he couldn't hear the teacher. In all cases , without any exception  the teacher asked the student to come to the front. While THE PROBLEM STAYED WHERE IT WAS . The back benchers couldn't hear the teacher. I don't know whether the lack of accomplishment from the back of the classroom was  due to their lesser abilities or their resignation to their fate which was ordained by the environment.

  At every step on the way when any inconvenience was faced, and I confronted it , the general advice dished out to me was ' that's the way it is. You won't have to deal with it for a long time '. True . I didn't have to deal with it for a long time. And I knew it at that time. I grew up and apart but the system stayed where it was,crippling different people every moment long after i was gone.

When I started working as a doctor at a tertiary care hospital , the whole world broke loose on me. The lack of organization and structure got to me. I confronted the system again and I was told , in a holier than thou tone that that's the way it is. This is how we learn here. Everybody went through the same system. I was made to feel that my concerns about the system were my concerns about my comfort. " it is a couple of years and then you won't remember it ". As if it was about me. During the rounds, most of the senior doctors spent more time gloating about their hardworking past and lamenting the state of current affairs than improving the current state of affairs
At every point , when I went upto the concerned person I was told " madam aise he chalta hai". ( This is how it is)
As a result of my concerns about the deficiencies in system,  I was made to feel responsible for perhaps being too idealistic, and surprisingly even selfish or spoilt.
I wonder however , which approach is actually selfish? Tolerating something wrong and preaching others to do the same because this won't last for you and you will have a better life in the end?  This advice is wrapped in the blanket of the adage "hard work bears fruit " as if my problem was ever hard work, the suggestions are that I should do my best despite resources , as if I ever do anything but that.
This attitude of the society is evident also from the backlash  received by the people who try to bring attention to different social issues. As a society , we are concerned with safeguarding our image so vehemently that we find shame in identification of mistakes , we believe in making do with what we have instead of optimizing the efficiency of the system. No wonder , this society is more stagnant than progressive.