Independence....?????

wat does it really mean??? why do we crave for tat??? are we really gettin it??? and if we are, are we doin our part to maintain it???? but mainly, do we deserve it??

all these questions popped up in my mind when i was watchin a documentry on Gandhiji. He truly is becomin an inspiration for me these days... like the millions of others, i too used to hate his principles and his actions. i too did critisize them and did end up arguin with some of my friends abt his methodologies and their effectiveness.

I am so happy tat i was wrong then. if not for his non violence, we wouldn't have got our independence so soon......

i was overwhelmed by the sheer power this small, puny old guy with a staff in hand, hardly any clothes on, had over the masses. more abt Gandhi when i get the mood to write abt him, although it'll be like admiring the depth of the ocean by lookin at the surface.

a few quotes i'd like to share....

"jesus showed us the way of love, and Gandhi taught us the way to do it" - Martin Luther King

"an eye for an eye will only leave the whole world blind" - M K Gandhi

He had once said tat he'll consider himself a true Mahatma if in a circumstance where he were to be assassinated, he'd accept the bullets happily and die with the name of God on his lips...we all know how he was killed, he was indeed a ture MAHATMA...!!!

anyways....i wanted to blog abt us being "independent", or the illusion tat we are.
does the feelin of independence restrict itself only to the political power of the country or does it have a lil more depth to it??? doesnt it have anything to do with wat we have to deal with ourselves????
does being independent have any relevence to our lives not being controlled by our emotions and instead, we controllin them???
does growin up as an independent person imbibe in us a sense of responsibility or does it just reduce the compassion and love we have towards the fellow ppl????? does a sense of independence (in watever way) unconsciously make our ego grow out of proportions????

so many questions, so little knowledge to answer them.....
me wonders if i can ever get an answer to some of my rantings....
a part of me quietly stays away from this and tells me to cut the crap and get a life, a part of me tells me to go on and look out for an answer, and a small part of me laughs away to glory....coz i am sure it know all the answers and wants me to find them out myself......

cOnFuSiNg....??? I dont think so....!!!!!!