Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Let's brainstorm together!!

I don't believe it- I am actually writing a blog!
I am so bad at writing that I got a 4.5 in Essay writing section of my TOEFL :( .
Actually, I am a person who would write personal diary once or twice in a year when I get really emotional about something or when there's something that I want to do but cannot do at that moment.

So, I was reading my diary and read about my long cherished dream once again. I always wanted to do some sort of social service for my country and discussing these things with one of my friend, we realized that it might be a great idea to combine an orphanage and old age home into one since many of the needs of one group might complement the needs of the other, thus resulting in a symbiotic kind of a relationship.

I lived in US for the last few years and I always thought that when I go back, I will work on this dream of mine. Now, that I have come back to India, I feel that there are so many needy people that this small thing would target a very small audience only. If I really want to improve the current conditions, I will have to do something else also.

So I tried to think how can I do something big and suddenly the idea of writing blogs came to my mind. I thought if I can reach more similar-minded people, we can together brainstorm as to what all are the problems and how we can play our role in solving those.

I picked a pen and paper and wrote down few categories of problems:
1. Corruption
2. Poverty
3. Illiteracy
4. Law and Order
5. Pollution/Enviroment
6. Bad state of Agriculture

Many of these might be related and there might be lots of important categories that I would have missed out. Please add what you think is missing here. Once I can get my list complete, I would want to categorize it into 4-6 main categories and then start brainstorming on one category at a time as to what we can to improve those.