Blaming and leaving

Several TV channels showed a long queue of females in front of the Bureau of Foreign Employment at Battaramulla.  They were responding to a notice announcing 20 employment vacancies in Japan. Few in the queue were interviewed and all of them were criticizing the rulers of the country and the system.

My question is how many of them made an effort to elect good people as rulers or to change the system. Most of them are just hangers-on and lotus-eaters – Reality show participants and viewers, musical show participants and if not followers of  various religious sects.

When will we – young and old, see the importance of  John F. Kennedy’s historic words, “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country?”

B Perera