All around me, I see examples of \u201call-talk-no-action\u201d.<\/p>\n
On TV, I catch a segment featuring a heated debate among some citizens and some politicians, and I can\u2019t help but wonder: What\u2019s the point? Tomorrow it will all be forgotten, and nothing good will come of it. In a group discussion, I overhear people cribbing about the pathetic state of affairs and blaming the government for all their ills: What\u2019s the point? No one will take the time out to do <\/em>any thing about it. All they want to do is let out some steam, find someone to blame, and go right back to their jobs and their parties.<\/p>\n And, it\u2019s not just others. What have I <\/em>done that\u2019s so different? Is this blog really going to make a difference?<\/p>\n Then, I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. (based on which I first started this blog!):<\/p>\n \u201cOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Maybe, some day, I will also be able to put these words and feelings to more constructive use. Until then, this will have to do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All around me, I see examples of \u201call-talk-no-action\u201d. On TV, I catch a segment featuring a heated debate among some citizens and some politicians, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-reflections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}