Saturday, December 18, 2021

Grateful vs Greatest!

 

What or Who’s ‘The Greatest?’ Of course, I’m not writing about Cat Power’s beautiful musical composition. 😊 But, is there any Nation or Anyone that could be considered presently as The Greatest? Any State? City - Metro, Tier 2/3/4, Satellite Town, Village? Organization? Individual? You may’ve a residing place with good amenities, infrastructure, healthcare; you may also have pole apart - an unhabitable, torn land where will thrive(d); OR, a shallow, puffery, shabby, soulless, sceneries (hybrid of above both). But could any of these be considered as The Greatest? The one with amenities or the will or both?

The Land or One becomes The Greatest when in the past/present/future it ameliorate(d) all directions ‘without’ leaving gargantuan chaotic levels of residues behind!

CEOs / Chairman / BODs / Independent Directors / VPs / MDs / Executives / Promoters / VCs / Pvt. Equities / Fund Managers, consider themselves The Greatest as they create Wealth (basically for shareholders & themselves). Whereas, The Protesting Comrades, Unions call themselves The Greatest as they create Vote banks via protests (basically to accumulate power). The kind of inferiority complexes amongst residents you would perceive in cities, small towns, villages - is unexplainable; yet, their natives consider their lands as The Greatest. Pretentious Leaders’ amplify themselves as The Greatest. For what? For doing their jobs, which they’re supposed to do.

Emperors’ / Kings’ expanded empires/kingdoms buttressed by swords. One may’ve justified this kind of expansion, had that been done to ameliorate, as evolutionary traits of many can’t be altered, naturally. Alas, that was never the case. It was either loot or proselytizing. Today’s the same. Debt diplomacy to geographic to ideological influence. So, are any one of them The Greatest?

There’s no such thing as The Greatest in the World. But yeah, one can individually be Being Grateful!😊

© Pranav Chaturvedi 2021