Be The Change...Yeaahh Right!!!!!!

Whitesugar was screwing around with an idea for a song the other day. Gil is a particularly enthusiastic guy and has his own Oh-I'm-So-right perspective on most things on planet earth. This is an excerpt from the brainstorming session that took place that day at our practice pad.

Scene1 (the only scene): WS Practice Pad. During daily load shedding.

Gil: Machane. We have to write a song and try and get it recorded. The theme is ‘Be the change’. It might be our big thing.

S: Yeah right. Just what the world needs. Another song on change. Half the worlds working on such stuff man.

Gil: Aliya. We need change man. The govt sucks. The road sucks. My job sucks. Our life reminds me of the market at Kaloor. It stinks to high heavens.

S: So what you’re saying is that we write a song about change when everything else is basically stagnant and stinking and not gonna change in a long long time.

JP: that’s cos I farted.

S: No you moron. I was speaking generally. Your fart just about sums it all up. Machane. Nothings gonna change man. For a long time.

We all need Change! Change from what? I for one, am sure I don’t want most of the things to change around here. Maybe I could really use some decent roads around here (roads in Kerala are a farce). Maybe a lesser degree of inflation would be real nice too. But that’s about it for me. We all think we want change. But if the change we were hoping for did happen, a lot of us would be kicked out of our comfort zones and we would be UNCOMFORTABLE.

Every other politician who’s worth his salt keeps piping about change. Its become a staple on every political agenda.Maybe it’s Change that the miserable social diseases who call themselves Bajrang Dal had in mind when they went on a death roll tearing apart a thousand dreams built over a lifetime. Blood all over the place. Families broken beyond repair. Maybe the CEO, who was mauled to death the other day, wanted Change as well. He probably felt that the workers were to blame for business lows and not some idiotic policy he came up with. Moral of the story: Change for the sake of change can friggin kill ya.

Deep down none of us really want change. We fool ourselves into thinking we need it. Change is never nice and easy. It carries with a lot of uncertainties, a lot of confusion and its almost a 100 % certainty that we’ll end up with something we hadn’t bargained for. And we might have to live the rest of our lives with that. I was watching this movie the other day ‘Pay It Forward’. In it the child who’s the protagonist comes up with this idea which he hopes will change the world. After he gets the picture there’s a line in which he says ‘People don’t wanna change. Cos they’re afraid’. That’s the whole idea. If we want some decent change, a change that might in some little way better the quality of life, WE must have the balls to change. And its hard and most certainly will mess you up big time. Are you ready to CHANGE??I still dunno.