Feeling the power of democracy: A Vote

Loving your country is all about giving back to nation. Bang it!! I love my country INDIA to my heart, atleast I thought so … always charged up after listening song like Maa tujhe salaam ,feel adrenaline rushing through my veins after any terrorist attacks , dreaming of becoming this country as powerful as China or japan , cheering for country in cricket match against X or Y or even Z , cherished each moment when an Indian make it big at international level, get pumped up after watching any patriotic movie , be it nuclear deal or T20 trophy or ARRahman oscars or kalpana's space story or lakshmi mittal or GDP growth @ 9% or Moon's mission or Abhinav Bindra's gold or millions stories like this all make me proud and love INDIA

But what I forget was that loving anybody is not about only taking,about feeling good, cheering ,dreaming ,cherishing ,getting pumped …..ITS MUCH MORE.....and if its about loving your country HELLUVA MORE. …

Lets make thing clearer first, why am saying all this today after close to quarter century of my life....any first incident or reason which makes me thinking this.....yes its because I VOTED …..yes I voted for first time today....although I should have voted lot of years before when I turned 18 but then I wasn't serious and circumstances always turned back my chance of voting...its only today I give my democratic decision....I GAVE MY VOTE...yippie

Election ….as I understand is the Democratic battlefield where the different contestant fight for serving the nation …..and result of which is decided by the number of weapon each contestant have.....weapon is the vote by general public.....Vote is a democratic weapon and powerful tool of the citizens to exercised on election day to help right contestant win….Now , giving that vote to one's right contestant will certainly boost the chances of him/her winning and by not giving it is like giving one vote to wrong contestant

Back to first line...loving your country all about giving back to it.......it actually start with A VOTE......a vote to right contestant....its important and crucial for nation's growth...if vote not given ,one should not look for growth.....all that cheering ...feeling good...cherishing....is temporary ...will be gone forever....

Loving the nation gives extra responsibility on shoulder to work for it....a small step of billion people will together make sure that INDIA takes a big leap and grows manifolds.....to reach and shattered the limits ...to fly high......all this will happen when we will VOTE ,give TAX and WORK together for it

HAPPY DEMOCRACY !!!

Shashank