Stop complaining..try to do something worthwhile...

So says Pradeep Bhaskaran - in response to my very first post.
Yes, generally I would agree with him. I don't believe "that the fault lies not in us ... but in our stars" as the poet says. Because the fault does lie in us...
It's we who go down a one-way street because we don't want to go around to the next legal u-turn...
It's we who bribe the cop with 300 bucks because he stopped us from running a red light...
It's we who overtake by climbing over a road divider because we don't have the patience to wait in line - it's happening on the BRT corridor every second of everyday...
It's we who don't complain when auto drivers refuse to take us where we want to go and refuse to use the meter...
The fact is that I came back to "my country" after 17 years because I heard all about India shining. How the economy is galloping at 9% growth every year.How malls are growing like mushrooms. How jobs are falling over themselves, paying out BIG bucks and attracting people back in droves - brain drain in reverse...How the living is easy, smart and oh so plush in the "ivory" towers of Gurgaon and Noida.
Well, all that is true - and it's happening to a minuscule portion of the 1.2 billion population. It is VERY easy if one is cushioned from the realities of life in air-conditioned comfort - at home, in the car and in office!
But it's not happening to me.
When I asked my friends and family why we didn't have more discipline, more self-control, more awareness, I was told it's pointless to do something about anything. Things are too far gone - this from people who have never left the country!
I am from advertising and communication. I came up with an idea that involved reaching out to children (through a series of simple 30 second animation films) costing a mere 4 lakhs each. And tried to sell the idea to a few MNCs who are supposedly into CSR programs and spend crores on films that illustrate brilliantly how you can drive a car backwards for a bottle of fizzy drink. Did anyone bite? No way!
It's OK to show kids how to break every rule on the road but not how to drive the right way.Enough said. I have tried to do something worthwhile - and so far have been laughed at for my efforts. So the only thing I can do is rant and rave about it here - my own personal forum. And while I appreciate every response, I do not appreciate it when people assume that I have not tried to do anything about it...