I watched Delhi Crime (Season 2) and to be honest there were a lot of things that hit me like the shortfall of police force, denoted tribes being targeted, working women being accused of not balancing their family but the biggest one was to what extent people can go to fulfill their desires or dreams. Although all of them are serious issues for society, every issue needs to be taken care of at different levels. I know it is just webseries made for entertainment sake in which some hypothetical things are also shown but ask yourself aren’t these incidents a harsh reality?
Everyone wants a luxurious and better lifestyle; the desire to achieve this so much that the way to achieve it doesn’t matter anymore as if people are possessed by it. Someone said rightly, “everything has its pros and cons”, where the improved lifestyle has brought a transformation; there it has also increased crime in the country.
Season 2 is about a girl who works in a beauty parlour. During visits to her rich clients houses she gets a burning desire to open her own parlour. The lifestyle of her clients makes her fascinated and she becomes greedy for a similar lifestyle and to make this happen, she chooses to walk on the path of crime, as a shortcut to become rich.
Unfortunately I have experienced this in my family too. I met my cousin (maternal uncle’s son) recently and he told me that his friends have iphones and ipads but my uncle doesn’t buy him anything. He stole money from my uncle’s wallet. That’s his first step towards crime. There is so much comparison amongst children that unintentionally they get attracted to wrong ways to fulfill their desires. It’s not necessary that a crime needs to be big, even a small stealing from parents wallets and purses can lead to bigger crimes in future.
Lana Parrilla says, “There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has something that makes them different” and one statement I came across was, “Comparison is the thief of Joy”. I feel both the statements are self-explanatory; just to have a few moments of luxury, people lose their present life also. I am sure no dream is so big that it can cost the life of a person.