Sole responsibility

Just yesterday, I saw a dirty street and I used my pet curse word for the government department responsible for it. My family and friends immediately protested, 'But you can't blame the government alone for it? People too have to assume their part of the responsibility'. And I lost my shirt, again.
The concerned department alone has the responsibility. We pay our taxes and select people who manage the system on our behalf. That's where it ends.
Of course, people are part of the problem. But who is charged with managing the ' people's part of the problem'? Surely, those who have accepted responsibility and get paid for it. They have the power to coax and motivate - and if it doesn't work, to penalise.
So, let them not get away with it.

Fallen angels or risen apes

Where we are today, doesn't matter. What matters is whether we are on our way up or way down. The direction of the journey matters.
Claims of a glorious past actually underscore the point that we are fallen from being angels, rather than risen from being apes!
But falling we are, and rising others are.

Kyaa baat hai kuch pyaas zyada lagti hai yahan
Log kehten hain kabhi is jagah par tha kuan
( Why is it that one feels more thirsty at this place? It is because, once upon a time, these used to be a well here )

There should be more pride in saying that my family history starts with me than in saying that mine ends with me.