Habits and Routines form your sub-conscious self and the power of that sub-consciousness is so much more than what we expect it to be. And power has the capacity to surprise and destroy. Our habits and routines is what defines us.
It isn't something that we realise but it's how others form opinions about us. Bad habits such as procrastination, smoking, laziness, etc. have an unbelievable power to destroy but it isn't something that you'll realise. These are so deeply imbibed in your personality that you hardly notice them. This absence of any realisation makes you blind to a lot of your weaknesses. It's something that makes you hollow from the inside. It's most of the times the reason why you fail to understand the problem others have with you.
Even if you do realise such weaknesses. It's extremely difficult to get over them as they become a part of your personality and getting rid of them is like losing a part of you. Such habits have the power to bring you down from the zenith. They can destroy the mighties of people and organisations.
The corruption in our country is the biggest example of this malaise. We accept it as a part of the routine. Taking bribes have become a habit. We are all so blind towards it because we don't realise the power it has to completely destroy the country. The magnitudes of the damage caused are not measurable because nothing is there in the books but for sure, they are magnanimous.
The only reason why we were quiet for so many years, even though we knew it all along, is that it became a part of the personality. Corruption was acceptable because it was in the subconscious, something that you knew but ignored. It's like, while walking on the footpath, you know that a bus is passing on the road but fail to notice it's colour, because that's not important to you.
How else can someone explain a scam of 1.74 lakh crore. This is enough money even for everyone's greed. Such a scam could occur only beacause it was a part of their habit. Corruption has become a matter of routine, that's why the likes of Tatas and Ambanis are all involves in the practice. Being an honest, loyal citizen of the nation is an exception. It took us 60 years to notice that something was seriously wrong with our nation, in such hostile environment.
If bringing corruption to everyone's conscious mind was so difficult; then getting rid of it would be a tough row to hoe. The biggest threat to out country is from such habits and not from an external entity. If we would ever be able to change ourselves and get rid of it, is highly doubted, but only time will tell.
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
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