Amongst all those who have come across me so far ever since i started using my senses and wits, there hasn’t been an even single person who hasn’t evinced directly or indirectly wishes to be powerful. Of course, the field of power is different for different people. A wrestler wants to be powerful in muscular form, a student wants the power of intelligence, an athlete wants cardiovascular power and a politician wants ruling power.

Of course power can be attained by anybody—but there is a requirement on the part of the power seeker. Power doesn’t favour all those who seek it. It demands something from those who want it to stay with them. Those who fulfill the demand of power get bestowed with it.

Well, power comes to those people who don’t cringe when it comes to take responsibility in life---- responsibility of what you do and responsibility of what all the actions of  those who come into contact with you. We have to take responsibility of the success or failure of our efforts. Generally we see that people take responsibility of the successful tasks and deny association with unsuccessful projects. We need to take responsibility of success and failure in equal measure.

We can’t refuse to take the responsibility of the person who has become drug addicted in front of us. We can’t say that the person had decided it for himself without the slightest provocation at your end to do so. We have to take the responsibility of reforming and saving that person. We can’t entertain a person to drink in a party at our place who after leaving our place, under the influence, might race his car to an accident. A teacher can’t shirk the responsibility of the continuous poor performance of his students year after year.

You might have noticed that those people who do not take responsibility always raise complaints wherever they go or whatever they do. Instead of taking the things in their stride and get them solved, they keep on passing the buck.

Once you start passing the buck, you keep on losing opportunities of learning and improving in your life for ever. We all know that those who do not learn remain unskilled, inefficient and consequently powerless.

The moment you start taking responsibility in life, you get on your way to add power to yourself. The bigger the responsibility is the greater your power is. I was told by my pa the story of the man who took the responsibility of his district and became MLA, he took the resp. of the state and became governor. He took the responsibility of the country and it led him to be the  president .....the most powerful man of his nation. He took the responsibility of the world,  the universe and became omnipotent. Yes,  people started worshipping him as God.

There are a number of phenomena in human wold today which owe their existence to the unexpected and unprecedented advancement in science and technology; and one of them is electronic media. No doubt about the fact that media in its electronic form is one of the most incredible phenomena in this modern age in terms of providing cheaper and faster information to people. I must say that even lexicographers would flounder for words if it comes to say something in the praise of electronic media and its role in this present era. It is the window to unlimited information and knowledge for people from all walks and stages of life.

Despite all this there is a flip side as well to this modern age wonder which makes us to deplore over its invention. One of the most deplorable aspects of this form of media is that it exposes the ‘Joe Bloggs’ to glossy and glittering possessions of film stars, sports stars, business tycoons, etc. and allure them towards the dreams of such life. It does create a desire to rise but unfortunately it can not provide the resources to the underprivileged class which are prerequisite to achieve the success in this materialistic world. Mere desire for things can’t provide you access to them, howsoever strong and pure it may be. You need to have certain amount of support to enable you to achieve what you want to. If you think of getting things on the basis of desire only, it will be something like running an automobile on an uphill road without fuel and which every sensible mind will understand is next to impossible at least for a mortal man.

This unequipped and uncalculated pursuing leads the aspirants to failure and which consequently leads the kindled hearts to the deepest and the darkest layers of frustrations. When people get exposure to affluent life through media, they become extremely enthusiastic about it and start thinking of the means to get access to it. Countless youths of our nation who would have been the heroes of their own kinds, end up just as alcoholics or druggists and keep fluttering and swaying aimlessly just as dried leaves and blades due to their unfulfilled dreams which were created in their hearts by media exposure. I have reason to say that the media can educate, it can inform but at the same time it can mislead and misguide.

Another questionable and unjustified side of media is the disproportionate coverage to ordinary and undesirable events and incidents. It goes really disgusting when we see twenty four hour coverage of a Bollywood(Indian film industry) megastar‘s or a politician’s son or daughter’s wedding or divorce. Cricketing stars are also lionised and idolised by media. Sometimes even the perpetrators of as heinous crime as rape, extortion, murder and treachery become heroes through media coverage. All these things give reason to raise fingers at the most powerful and vital source of information i.e. electronic media. Of course media has to make us acquainted with what is happening in the world but that doesn’t mean that the wrong people and incidents should be popularised for the sake of television rating points.

Every human, born with normally functioning body and a sane mind, dreams of one thing day in and out, and that is to excel whatever field he is engaged in. A student keeps studying throughout the year with a dream that at the end of the session he will be able to top the list of toppers, a sportsman leaves no stone unturned to bag gold medal in the final, a soldier does not hesitate to make the supreme sacrifice of his life in order to be conferred on the ‘PARAMVEER CHAKRA’(highest gallantry award in India), a farmer sweats in the fields for the whole season to get the best yield from his fields, a scientist keeps on experimenting tirelessly to give result to the long cherished invention, and a mother does not pay any heed to the ceaseless discomfort and pain she undergoes for nine months to allow her child to be born without any mental and or physical deformity.

       We all crave for excellence to distinguish ourselves and distance from masses not by showing apathy to others but by virtue of an aura common to excellent people. Do we ever give any thought to the factors responsible for the laurels of those who have earned the tags of excellent performers? Well, the answer is simply no for most of us. In fact we don’t even try to understand it. But still we, most of us, crave for a profile which is remarkable and honourable to the society.

        Sachin Tendulkar is the most respectable cricketer of our country at this moment of time. So many youths of our country idealize him and dream of replicating his feats. There is nothing wrong in it and there are cricketers like Sehwag and Rohit who have emerged as the most exciting players of present time by emulating the style of the 'master blaster'. But the thing that is to be noted is that they did not copy him sitting on the sofa in the drawing room in front of the television, rather they followed his footsteps in the cricket ground and practice net tirelessly. There were many others who dreamt of this but without putting in proportionate efforts and were reduced to a laughing stock.

       The afore said views should not be misconstrued or taken as a ban on dreaming high. There is no denying the fact that every phenomenon that appears reality today was once a dream in the mind of a person who was unknown to the world like most of us. But he believed in his dream and decided to let it expose to the world and result was success. Every person is the architect of his own destiny. We are what we think ourselves to be. We have every right to dream high and cherish lofty dreams. Somebody has rightly said that if we dream of becoming sun, we will certainly end up at least a star in the sky. But we can not afford to have baseless and wild dreams because that may lead us to frustration and desperation.

         In fact one has to have  a well defined and clear objective in life in his sane and intelligent mind, and must calculate the proportionate toil, and of course a spirit which doesn't know how to give in but believes in treading the bumpy and difficult terrains of life. I feel really elated when I see the teenagers, with whom I deal directly due to my profession, well aware of their goals putting in unsparing efforts to achieve them. In this modern age where unforeseen advancement in media has provided exposure to children of useful and detrimental things. With the gadgetry available with children, it is possible to gain esoteric knowledge but at the same time there is always running a risk of maligning children’s delicate and impressionable minds as well. Nonetheless I have reason to say that today’s generation to a considerable extent is more insulated against the deviation than their predecessors because of the clarity of their targets.