I was thinking of why would anybody give his life for 'others'? one more mad bro? He gave his life for the nation, and he was proud of this fact while he lived. He probably considered it a humanly, and heavenly, and the righteous thing to do. But why was that? I believe that would be because of the shit others would have planted in his brain. Die for your country, that would make you a true jatta or something.
Fine, his own wish. Somebody wants to give his life for me, and wants what in return.. respect? Take it man!! Every ounce of it!! Why would I refuse!
What we do today? We say Bhagat Singh was a hero. The man gave his life for us. Hats off to him. What does it make us? We are saying that it was the right thing to do! We are promoting the fact that people should die for others! If I want to make my life better, then I better work for it myself. Else call my self a harami.
(We all know that Bhagat Singh was well educated, and sort of a leader, and that's why assuming that he was logical, would be a justified assumption for the following stuff)
What we believe about bhagat singh is what we are shown in the movies and what our elders teach us. Why do these have to be true? Maybe Bhagat Singh wanted to live in and independent India and that was why he was working for it. That is completely justified, because he was working for himself, and letting people know that they should also for the same cause as it was for them too. (That is why Arvind kejriwal and anna team are doing) But when he would have realized that he was to hang with his neck inside a loop, he would have been scared man!! Dying is not a good thing! All pride and honor would come to rest when it comes to death..!
But our elders didn't want to project him as a person who is afraid, or who is a coward... (which would not have been a problem at all) maybe because they wanted to produce more heroes as bhagat singh, they might have wanted to see more and more martyrs who would die for their country men. If we had known a different reality that Bhagat Singh was afraid, and he tried to escape or he fell into the feet of jailer then he wouldn't have got the respect that he gets now! (Although he wouldn't know he gets nothing coz he's dead :P)
So soldiers, please die for me. What happens if our country didn't have the armed forces? It would have been a blunder, chaos or dependence on some other country as it was before 1947.
I don't want somebody to die for me, and I also want independence. But I myself don't work for my independence. Deadlock.
