Socially Responsible... Oops... R we???

            I was sitting at a friend’s place and the door bell rang. My friend opened the door. A teenage boy in his school dress was standing at the door and he showed a paper of a social service organisation and was asking for donation for it. A good social service cause indeed. My friend said that he already does it, said thanks to the child and closed the door. The boy went away, obviously disappointed. My friend came back and we started smiling as if we have escaped a smashing.
            But that incident kept me thinking. Am I socially responsible? Is donating money for a social cause just enough??!! And I kept wondering......
Half of the people spend their life in doing what their parents expect from them. Half of the remaining half try to achieve what their parents could not but wished to achieve, and the remaining.., well I do not know. But that hardly matters.
            I see so many bad and unnecessary things in my society, my country. I just crib about it and try to avoid it. Why? Have we ever paid heed to try and resolve some of those and at least contribute, in whatever capacity for it? But we avoid it by saying that we have our own problems.
            A normal software engineer like me is very happy to slog in the office and when at home open my laptop to watch a movie or a downloaded thriller or a comedy program or Google about something... may be anything!!!! I say I am acquiring knowledge. Once in a while if we lend a helping hand to somebody (To cross a road and may be a seat in a bus or a train), we are on the top of the world and we assume that we are socially responsible and geeks too. Lolz....
            Well consider another point altogether more close to what we all do. We wake up every morning and read newspaper. If I ask why do we read the newspaper? A common answer would be “Jaankari Ke liye” and “to form an opinion based on that Jaankari”. But what do we do that with that opinion? NOTHING!!!! And if at all we do then the in the best possible effort we try and utilize a few learnings for our own benefit or well-being. That’s no-way incorrect but the issue is, Thats it!!!!! This is what the highly qualified and modernized, the Generation “X” does. So then who takes the onus of teaching the less privileged children and for that matter, even adults of our society?
            I believe that we could and we should do more than that. Don’t you feel so?? I am sure you do... I wish all the Social Beings have something or the other to say about this... But I am not sure how many would actually read and think about it?

Cheers,
Rohit!!!!