Second Fiddle

Second fiddle, is a term that refers to something that plays a secondary role in support of something that plays a more major role or leading role. I believe that having second fiddle will make sure that the task we perform is completed. I also believe that it is responsibility of the leading person to create his second fiddle and care should be taken in choosing the second fiddle as the slightest mistake will make things worse and may lead us to a situation beyond our control, leading to our defeat.

I would like to recall an incident which happened in my college. Young out of school and new in college we were separated from our seniors in the name of protection (from ragging). There were some small problem for which we students were suppose to oppose college authorities and we did, it was something new experience and we somehow managed to succeed in it but, what happened next is what something which we didn't expect and were not prepared. At the time of our act when college authorities were agreed for the negotiation we selected one of the student among us to negotiate on behalf of us. After giving what we have requested the college authorities started targeting the guy who represented us and they were giving trouble to him all the possible ways and making his days miserable in college. There were no one behind him when he is experiencing this trouble. He was suppressed and no one else dared the second opposition and rest of our college life were under the control of the college authorities. It was never the our way.

I was admired by the game played by the college authorities by yielding for the first time, they gained control over us for the rest of our college life. I still think how the situation would be if we have a second fiddle when the college authorities targeted our representative. It can all be seen only in dream now. I like watching cricket and there was one time when only one player plays and wins the match for the team. when that wicket falls whole team will fall leaving the match to jeopardy. Very rarely I witnessed matches where the batsman's playing second fiddle to carry out the match to victory. Now the team has been much improvised and I see lot of players are expressing their talent and winning the match for the team. That is the power of the second fiddle.

With second fiddle as the topic of discussion, I cannot stop thinking about the politics and how the second fiddle is leading the country. It was my opinion that now a days the politics is the war between the corrupted politicians and the public. There were lot of second fiddlers in the political side and none in the public. Every man has to be his one and only fiddle and have to survive the politicians. It was not all the same in our history, I believe that back in our history there were strong second fiddlers among the public who helped people get what they wanted from politicians and second fiddlers among politicians who won the war for their country when the king is in utter most peril.

How is this changed now? the immediate question when we talk about the second fiddlers in history. My assumption would be the lack of trust is the main reason. people started being conscious. In the name of safety and security they started to break the trust they had among themselves and they started believing rumors and questioning their loyalty. It has become easy for the third person to break the trust among the two closed ones. It all didn't start suddenly as I would say that some persons started misusing their intelligence for their benefits, playing among their trust. They played so much that it has corrupted the base of the trust. As a result people stopped trusting themselves, not realizing the full impact of this.

The time the people starts realizing this, the situation will go out of control. Writing this blog under the hope that people may be awakened from their long lasting mis-trust.