The recent Assembly election
in the state of Karnataka was labelled as a major political drama. When
election result got announced, the party that is in power in the Parliament became
the single largest party though they still didn’t have majority in the
Assembly. Two of the next biggest parties formed a coalition post-election and
claimed the right to form the government since, together, they have majority in
the Assembly.
The plot thickened with
Governor of the state applying his discretionary power and invited the ruling
party to form the government giving fifteen days to prove majority. A Chief
Minister was sworn in as well on the same day tasked with the challenge of
proving majority. The opposition parties filed a case at the Supreme Court and got
the duration offered by the Governor reduced to four days. The climax of the
drama unfolded with the one-day-wonder Chief Minister resigning after failing
to prove majority in the Assembly for his party! As I write this, the erstwhile
opposition was invited by Governor to form the government and it is now their
turn to prove majority in the next four days.
So what is the moral of the
story and what has a family with a husband and wife got to learn from this
political debacle? The most important take away from the whole story is that
you should know when to accept your defeat and exit gracefully. Else you’ll
make yourself go through twists and turns finally forcing you, against your own
will, to accept a humiliating end.
I’m pretty sure that many of
us relate quite well to the parties mentioned in the story above. We may have
situations in life where we know that we’ve lost the battle, yet our ego
wouldn’t allow us to accept the defeat. Instead we’ll cling on to the invisible
ray of hope looking ahead to the future which ironically has got dooms-day
written all over it.
Even when we are fully aware
not to push our luck any further, we continue to deploy all possible means with
a vicious intention of achieving the impossible at any cost. This will even
include reaching out to someone to vouch for us, all the while knowing that it
is completely unethical to do so.
What we purposefully do is to
turn a blind eye on the reality itself. We blatantly ignore fact that our
attempt to cover up our mistakes is seen and understood by the significant
other in our life. The truth is played right in front of their eyes just like
in a movie theatre and there is no merit in trying to close your eyes and
assume that others are equally blind!
The most right thing to do is
to accept your mistake or defeat at the earliest. It isn’t easy, but being open
to your dear ones about your downfalls will help you to recover from the losses
faster than you think. What we need to keep in our mind is that we are not
fighting an election battle here. The one from whom you are trying to keep a
secret is not your political rival. He or she is your partner for life. A
coalition that needs to be secured with the divine thread of love and trust.
Doubt has no place here.
An equally important learning
from our story is that, during situations like these, it is important you sort
these out among yourselves than involving an external influencer. These most
often backfire as you saw in the story.
It may seem quite strange
that India being the largest democracy, we find our political parties playing
all sorts of games that eventually turns out to be digging the grave for this
great democratic nation. At least what we could make use of is such lessons
these politicians teach us without they even being aware of it. More
importantly apply them in our daily lives to ensure that we learn to live our
life to the fullest.
May the good God bless you
with the foresight to know when to stop and accept a defeat so as to recuperate
from your loss and rise from the ashes as the legendary Phoenix bird!
For a
change, may the signs of politics be a leading light for better life!
