Motivational Speaker and author Paul Scanlon (born: 1957) has observed, citing research finding, that as many as 80 per cent of people are unhappy at work, adding that a bigger problem than unemployment is misemployment. Disenchanted in life and clueless about what befalls them in days and years ahead, destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin fatum) is often taken as a predetermined course of events happening to people in general and individuals in particular. Given the highly disturbed conditions in public domain, with virtually no region of the globe exempted, the diverse meanings that people at large give to fate, in all likelihood, drives them to feel more unhappy leaving them, barring rare exceptions, in no frame of mind to proactively act and put them back on track. The legends in society, who stand up to adversity of the most challenging nature are live examples of people who don’t believe in blaming fate or accepting meekly whatever fate hands down to them. Such legends, far and few between in our times, feel choked among the growing number of Indians in public life who have mastered the art of making their selfish desires as nation’s interest. They are called politicians, a gross misnomer.
The elderly in the land, with their heart bleeding for the next generation’s welfare, are shocked at the conduct of the country’s millennials, who account for half its total population. Disrespect to senior citizens, disdainful ways of life, brazen indiscipline, lethargy, violating the land’s laws and so on mark the growing tribe of no takers for the words of the wise.
