Joy of Independence day ....

Yesterday was the 15th august ,dignified day for India. I had planned a week ago to listen to the Independence day speech by PM on TV.But just before the day , i had a night out with friends to uphills and returned home around 5'o clock in the morning and slept till 10:30,obviously missed the Indep. day speech. Anyways, no regrets. I watched movie 'Shaurya' then. It was the climax of the movie going on and suddenly my Mobile rang with message tone. I didn't want to ruin the climax of the movie as it is very influential,so i decided to check the messages later.

The movie finished. Though i've seen this movie 6 times , i was still moved by Kay kay menon's acting . So now i checked my Inbox . 2 SMS's, first was a joke and second was a senti message. what the heck , no Independence day message since morning !!! what has happened to todays youth ... if it were a friendhip day or Valentine day , then surely my inbox must have been flooded by the related messages.

I think People doesn't pay respect to I day. They have took the Indepence granted i think. Otherwise they must have the idea that how much importance does a freedom pays to a country. I still remember the day ,15th aug 1997, when i went on a morning parade on the 50th Independence day with the friends of my elder brother. I even knew at that time that we are doing that to awake people and seggregate the message that its the day we got the Independence , we were liberated after the sacrifice of countless martyrs.It was a tribute to those Martyrs.

I am happy that i was having that slight sense of patriotism in me at that age of 13. and that sense has kept increasing ,never fallen down. I guess today a same Parade is required to awake and aware the people . I know thats not practically possible coz i had missed the time. So i decided to send messages to as many friends i can to rememorate them the Independence day.

After spreading the message to as many frenz as i could , i started recieving messages from my friends in return. I got messages from most of the friends i had sent, and also got the message from others whom i forgot to send. Definitely they had got that message from our mutual friends and had frowarded that.

Ultimately, by the end of the day , i was happy that i had made a little attempt to make the people celebrate the Independence day , though they knew that its the I day. I know just a push was required to burst out their patriotic emotions , coz being patriotic ain't a fashion, so people hesitate to do it first.

Now i had celebrated the Independence day Virtually with my friends and Had the real Joy of Independence day.