Some debate

“Hey judges,howz it going down there?”.Don’t like the sound of that ? Now if I were to continue in that fashion I wouldn’t be surprised if I was thrown out of this competition. How do we get to know about this rule and how do we know that one needs to conduct himself according to it?

What I am doing right now is conforming with the situation given to me. These rules were made for a reason and wouldn’t I be called a fool if I didn’t follow them?

Good evening, jury members and my dear fellow friends, I Gagandeep Singh Bhatia, stands in front of u to express my views on, “To conform is to enervate” and I stand strictly against the motion.

Yes, I would be foolish to do that. Conform is the ability of an individual to adjust, a significant skill which tells you to live by the norms. A child grows out from the hands of a mother out into the vast expanse of society. He is told to do certain things in a fixed manner. Even simple things like eating or talking need to be taken care of. A person who doesn’t learn the same is termed uncivilized. And somebody who hasn’t learned will certainly not be able to teach others. This is where his connection with society is damaged.

A change can only be brought if we know what we want to change and we know what we want to change only if we have experienced it. So to say, change can only happen after we can follow something and understand it completely. Saying that we can understand and skip directly to leading will end disastrously.

The Great, Mahatma Gandhi, became part of the Indian system and joined Indian politics before raising his voice. If we are to say that as a lawyer he were to arrive in India and start ordering people what to do ,I wouldn’t be hesitant to say that his theories would have never taken off.

Alfred Whitehead has rightly said, “The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

Enervate refers to how something can cause the loss of vitality. Something that steals strength from you. This 21^st Century world that we live in gives us a hectic fast paced life and we all agree that it keeps on changing every day of our lives. To say that adapting to these changes causes us to lose the inbuilt qualities would be foolish. Just to hang out there today we need to be on our toes. Every man and woman is like a soldier armed with a weapon in their hand standing in the middle of desert helplessly trying to defend themselves against enemies from every side possible. I say aligning oneself to what is told is a challenge in itself and a challenge which cannot be overlooked. It is not enervating but a tool for empowerment.

Let us look at it from the other way. What comes to our mind when we think of people who didn’t regulate themselves with the times? People like Adolf Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin come into the fray. Is that the change we want to bring to the society? A change that says cruelty is the rule of the day?

Management is one of the most important qualities to have today. Managing our lives, managing our offices, managing with people they all require you to think and make u work for it. It is a continuous exercise of your brain. All the same the world recognizes this and perhaps this is the reason managerial positions are given higher salaries and better status in today’s society. Now what do you think lies beneath management, it is after all, getting acclimatized to the situation and acting in the best possible way.

We see how important it is to adapt to our life and change can only take thereafter but they don’t enervate you. In fact they form an important part, an indispensible skill to have and a skill certainly worthy of its nature. So don’t be disheartened if you have to obey the rules next time you go out of your home.