My appeal or request to everybody is to take up the responsibility of driving or taking forward your community forward at least on one day in a year. What do I mean by it? Have you observed what is happening when you are travelling in car, bus, train or airplane. The driver is taking the responsibility to take you forward to your destination is a safe manner. You may be sleeping, relaxing or day dreaming. You may be talking to others on some or other issue. But the driver is concentrating on the road, traffic, direction and many other relevant things to take to in the direction of the destination as per schedule.
In day to day working of a system or a community, a similar thing happens. All the people in the community are not active and vigilant. Some are tired, some are bored. Hence some people are sleeping. Some are escaping from the reality and day dreaming. Some others are engaged in fun activities. But some persons in the community have to be active and do things relevant for the community's physical and mental well being and upkeep. So if you compare the community to a vehicle, it requires a driver or many drivers every day to take it forward, Many are passengers who are sitting passively in the vehicle. Sometimes you can observe passengers making fun of drivers. They may be even quarreling with the driver. But still the driver is doing his job.
Communities require somebody or other to take up the job of driver. It can be by turns. Offer your service to the community when you can. A society which has to more volunteers will be more effective and efficient. If you are seeing some countries as more developed today it is because of large number of community leaders.
Read an interesting essay on community leadership at https://ctb.ku.edu Kansas University
https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/leadership/leadership-functions/become-community-leader/main
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