Finally some free time! 2 weeks ago it wasn't like this. Life changes colors and hues like the sky.
Some realisation that I felt like putting on the record. Two weeks ago my dad met with a small accident and injured his knee. It was under strange circumstances. Though he had driven for more than 50 kms that day without any problem, this incident had to happen at the gate.
As it is commonly said, worst of the things went away as a small mishap. True! . He was hospitalised for a week and had to undergo a surgery.
As I was depressed over all this, something gave me and my family a relief. It was the constant presence and support of close relatives.Luckily almost all of my close relatives live within 100km range of my town. Not a single day went by with no one visiting the hospital.
Of course half of the credit has to go to my Dad for being the charmer he has been ;) . As I kept thinking and thanking, I imagined a reciprocal situation.Imagining no close ones near you when you are in trouble and life has pushed and shoved you to the wall. That would be some worst nightmare, but nevertheless possible.
Imagine a city like Bengalooru, and you, who starts off with a life ,where privacy is more than respected.Your survival is decided by the lifestyle points you earn on a scale of 10. Anything modern and new is embraced and old is gaped at doubtfully with a scorn.
I am not generalising this , but the tides are sweeping us to a different way of life than what most of our earlier generation or generation before that ,lived.
A joint family was one concept where 3 or more generations lived under the same roof sharing everything they had, with each other. It had the maturity of the old generation
along with the energy of youth and the innocence of the kids. Of course this was an ideal scenario and at a finer level, it had its own flaws. But still this way of living scores over the current nuclear families where the gap is ever widening and approach to life is more materialistic. Looking at 2008 or beyond, socially or economically, joint families or something close to it, is not a possibility. But may be we can loosen our necks a bit, look around, try to smile once in a while. Appreciate often, accept people as they are.Try not to force all 'My' rules onto 'Them'. All this came to my mind and I thought, what if we were alone, it would be a lot tougher indeed. While all this cleared up there was my cousin sister of 10
asking me out to play hide and seek in the hospital :) .
Some realisation that I felt like putting on the record. Two weeks ago my dad met with a small accident and injured his knee. It was under strange circumstances. Though he had driven for more than 50 kms that day without any problem, this incident had to happen at the gate.
As it is commonly said, worst of the things went away as a small mishap. True! . He was hospitalised for a week and had to undergo a surgery.
As I was depressed over all this, something gave me and my family a relief. It was the constant presence and support of close relatives.Luckily almost all of my close relatives live within 100km range of my town. Not a single day went by with no one visiting the hospital.
Of course half of the credit has to go to my Dad for being the charmer he has been ;) . As I kept thinking and thanking, I imagined a reciprocal situation.Imagining no close ones near you when you are in trouble and life has pushed and shoved you to the wall. That would be some worst nightmare, but nevertheless possible.
Imagine a city like Bengalooru, and you, who starts off with a life ,where privacy is more than respected.Your survival is decided by the lifestyle points you earn on a scale of 10. Anything modern and new is embraced and old is gaped at doubtfully with a scorn.
I am not generalising this , but the tides are sweeping us to a different way of life than what most of our earlier generation or generation before that ,lived.
A joint family was one concept where 3 or more generations lived under the same roof sharing everything they had, with each other. It had the maturity of the old generation
along with the energy of youth and the innocence of the kids. Of course this was an ideal scenario and at a finer level, it had its own flaws. But still this way of living scores over the current nuclear families where the gap is ever widening and approach to life is more materialistic. Looking at 2008 or beyond, socially or economically, joint families or something close to it, is not a possibility. But may be we can loosen our necks a bit, look around, try to smile once in a while. Appreciate often, accept people as they are.Try not to force all 'My' rules onto 'Them'. All this came to my mind and I thought, what if we were alone, it would be a lot tougher indeed. While all this cleared up there was my cousin sister of 10
asking me out to play hide and seek in the hospital :) .
