20230425 : someone else's job
I am part of my apartment complex's residents group on WhatsApp. I am sure everyone who is residing in an apartment or colony or gated community will have something similar. There are many things put in it - relevant stuff from the apartment MC to absolutely irrelevant forwards to appreciation messages to issues. The most frequent thing is "rants" - various things - significant issues to insignificant ones. It is the favourite subject as well - it gets most responses with more rants added to it. I wonder 2 things everytime when I see them. 1. As a society/ social community - have we become more negative than earlier times? 2. Most issues need a phone call to the concerned person/ manager/ security etc to resolve. Yet there will be 2 dozen messages in 2 minutes. I always wonder how many made that actual phone call to resolve. Have we become a society where everything is someone else's job to resolve? -- and we are hoping for social action for really big things like s