Corruption: very difficult to fight or is it?

Anyone would agree that corruption is one of the greatest evils that our country needs to fight today. Now one might say that the cause of corruption, which is not an issue I intend to get into here, is to be fought. Let's just look at corruption itself. People keep telling that its very difficult to fight corruption. Is this really true? I don't think so. All that is needed is a resolution from each and every person that he (the usage is strictly out of laziness to write he/she or she both of which are longer and tedious) will never bribe. Sticking to this resolution in most cases is not difficult at all. Its not that people bribe only in life-threatening situations. I agree it takes real guts to stand up to a situation like that or even worse, one in which one's near and dear ones' lives may be under threat. Most of the times we do it just because we don't want to
a. waste time
b. stand in loooooong queues.
c. waste money.
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z. be stupid
What an irony? A service to the nation in disguise is being called wastage of time. How better can time be utilized? How better can money be spent than spending it rightfully according to rules? How smarter can one get than helping one's own country fight corruption? Are these even reasons? People say "why should only I change ?" and the answer is only when I change can the whole transformation be complete. If 99 are corrupt out of 100 then my change will bring the number down to 98. Now that doesn't sound significant. It does even less when real figures are taken into account. But the fact is if corruption has to be eradicated I have to stop. I'm an integral part of the country. The least one can do is changing himself. One need not go around trying to change others. All that is needed is a personal change in everyone of us.
We are not even ready to sacrifice the smallest of our conveniences leave aside being tortured. Just imagine the amount of torment that our freedom fighters went through. What did they fight for? What did they achieve? Why did they sacrifice their lives? Can we even imagine surviving the smallest of torture that they went through? Just imagine our nails being plucked one by one, our hair being plucked one by one, our tongue being pulled out till we can't speak, our throat being scraped till we can't make a sound, our skin being cut bit by bit, our iris being torn, our eye being removed, our teeth being broken one by one, our tooth being drilled till we go unconscious, ourselves being skinned, our backs burnt by hot iron, ourselves lying on charcoal, ourselves lying on ice for hours together, a current passing through our genitals, ourselves being castrated, the resulting wounds being dressed with salt, pepper and lime. Does that sound too grotesque? But what is the limit of torture? It can go beyond the boundaries of most people's thinking till it can keep the victim barely alive. How do we know what all our freedom fighters faced? Probably much worse and still they didn't give up. Most of us surely can't take all this. But who is asking us to go through this? All that is needed is some extra patience, a little extra effort, a little thinking from our side. This can curb most of corruption. Very rare are the cases when it goes to the extent of torture or life-threatening situations. We must be able to stand those also in the longer run. But at least we can bear the pain in our legs due to standing for five minutes in a queue. Surely we can go to the RTO office a few extra times to get our license the right way. Surely we can travel in the general compartment of a train, or quit travel when we don't have a confirmed ticket. Surely we can pay the right fine when we have broken a rule by mistake. Isn't it shameful that we got independence due to the struggle of patriots, who gave up their lives or worse suffered torture, and are living like this?
To hell with people who say that the country won't change just by me changing. I need to change first. The country can't change without me because the country is not exclusive of me.