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Opportunities Today : May 2006 Issue

Immunity and Eradication !

 

Mosquitoes bring malaria, quinine cures. Eradication of mosquitoes may lead to eradication of malaria. Body immunity also helps safeguard from malaria inspite of mosquitoes being around. These are a few basic facts about malaria. Talking about immunity, it is hereditary or it can be acquired through antimalarial vaccine. Let's talk about malaria of lethargy, incompetence and indifference in our times. It has afflicted people of all ages. Going easy is the order of the day.

Getting easy money is the desire of the age and “Chalta Hai” is the style of life. This attitude of people is more damaging than malaria for when laid down with malaria you run for cure, but when you've started getting addicted to “easy life” the symptoms are so pleasing that you love to live in without realizing the consequences. So how to get over this malady of modern age - worse than malaria?

The cure is in removing the causes. Awareness of the situation or “diagnosis” is the first step. Once you've identified the disease, next you need a will to be back to normal efficient life style of the ambitious and the successful.

How to go back to good ways of successful people. Well develop your resistance to “rubbish” by strengthening your mind through good training by attending some good mind development programmes, reading good books, keeping good company. This new developed fancy for perseverance and progress can easily be spoilt by the environment, so keep your environment clean. In other words you can't have control over the big bad world, so you move away from “junk” company to “select” company. All this is to be done at personal level with own efforts or even with some help from outside.

 

This solution is at individual level. For greater effectiveness, the eradication programme should be taken at social, organizational or even national level which is then called the eradication programme.

 

The authorities at various levels and even government can introduce “healthy activities” programmes for helping the youth to harness their energies the right way. Most of the advanced countries have made military training compulsory to bring a sense of discipline and national pride in each youngster. It may be costly or difficult but it is possible.
In the meantime, the educational organisations can introduce some healthy recreation cum reconstruction programmes to involve youth in purposeful positive and interesting yet productive activities. Thus our country can achieve higher progress and become the greatest democracy.