Vernal Equinox

It’s the vernal equinox today.

A morning ride in the crowded local train in Mumbai makes you impatient. It’s the source of an angst that builds, and stays with you through-out the day. And the next day, there’s another one.

You want to kill everyone. Anyone who stamps on your feet, anyone who robs you of your space (not that it exists anyway) and anyone who smiles. You don’t rule your mind. It rules you.

The speeding taxi facing you, the vegetable vendor challenging his lungs by challenging about the best prices, the over-weight old woman carrying a basket full of jhinga (stinky dried fish), the people trying to move ahead with the anxiousness of a new born, the school kids running at the pace of an athlete, the honking vehicles declaring their superiority… everything…you just want to become doubly strong and throw them out of your way, and your life.

The traffic cop, the politicians, the police, the legal system, the corrupt officials… you just want to kill them. Because you logically think it’s the best way to get rid of them, to clean the system, to become the emerging power in the world.

I think the vernal equinox is a state of mind. It’s the victory of the dark over the bright. Over the ever-winning day, it’s the victory of the underdog night.

For the Gen – Y, everyday is the day of the Vernal Equinox, when the dark feeling of ‘killing and solving’ looms over the bright and white feeling that you can actually make a difference by staying clean. By not contributing to the corruption, you can actually contribute towards the larger goal of a corruption–free India.

A race never means you have to defeat others. It means YOU have to win. A victory comes by winning, not defeating.