I cover my body to reveal it. I cover my body to express my weakness and wisdom. My eyes examine any cover with imagination in time, space and reality. The cover is not a culprit. It has the capacity to engage the mind. Any kind of cover is the depiction of mind’s health. When I cover a window of the room, the thinking of mind has the intention to stop the entry of wind, dust and sunlight, etc. into the room. It may bring solutions to some extent but temporarily. I may not cover the window permanently because ventilation is also necessary. It is applicable in case of every cover.
One may find a variety of natural and invisible covers affecting the mind. Many covers are psychologically interpreted. The most inexplicable covers of mind have very dangerous effects. They have compelling force to thrust, at times, the mind and have the power to get done even wrong things. The brain becomes blind. The thinking becomes unidirectional. All sorts of understanding becomes obsolete. Such covers come into existence in the form of anger or love. Life may become heaven or hell depending upon the outcomes because these covers involve more than one brain for actions and reactions, barring repercussion on individuals and surroundings. Such covers have changed the lives and history of humans. Such covers may later terminate into repentance in life. It is very difficult to abstain from such covers. But a strong minded human, having logical cover in mind, may sail the boat in all weathers with good results and become an asset to society. Odds give opportunities and challenges to change and excell to such humans.
Natural covers have mainly emotional existences. They may be permanent or for a short duration. Their effects, types and intensities may change as per relations. They may be conditional or unconditional. Natural emotional covers may not be the same in animals and humans. But one emotional cover between animals and humans is the same, which is of love between mother and baby. That cover is encrypted in the minds of mothers and babies.
Natural covers may be covered in writing to a great deal. This may not be true, in case of unnatural covers. They are mainly physically visible and are mainly the results of social changes and historical backgrounds. But the nature of individuals acts as a spice in imposing selfish attitudes and concepts. The developments of technology and politics have added flavours into them to worsen the situations.
Brain plays a vital role in such unnatural covers. Selfish attitudes may change the scene and appearance of such covers. The power and might also dictate terms. The faith in the cult deteriorates the situation in the name of protection, security and differentiation. Such unnatural covers are many in numbers ranging from physique to home and from business to business. Most of the time, such covers are time-consuming, mood changing, hindrance in upliftments and relations affecting. They may be intentional for specific purpose to destablise the harmony in society.
We suppose ourselves to be intelligent by devising many unnatural covers. We want to hide something from others but we forget that the almighty sees everything. We may not play the seesaw game with him. He is the game maker and game changer. His covers are both seen and unseen depending upon our chastity and faith in him.
We are one
I think that the existence of a family needs bonding for combination, cooperation, coordination and social security. We have travelled a lot in time and the structure of the family has been modified from large to a nuclear family. The family system has witnessed expansion first and contraction thereafter. It seems that it may reach a situation equivalent to the time of the beginning of the human population on earth from two members according to our faith. We may restrict to two at last in the name of a family.
We have imagination power. It is true that two as a unit are indeed required to start a family. We may not trace our prehistoric two ancestors but we all have similarities and are one family if the concept of DNA in modern science is true.
Everything in the known world perhaps started from a simple entity. The scientific community is searching for the mother particle or God particle to know the solution to all problems related to the universe. Scientifically, the smallest unit, named atom, has been established and beyond that also. The combination, cooperation and coordination among atoms are the reasons for all existing known entities in the universe. The solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter are because of the distance between atoms. The nearest distance forms solid and holds atoms together due to attractive force. This force weakens when atoms move apart and liquid and gaseous states come into existence.
I think that our family structure changed like three states of matter. In the wake of developments and industrialization, the requirements of humans are changing continuously. Migration of family members becomes frequent, affecting relationships and attraction in a family. In the beginning, they behave like solid and meet regularly. Then they flow like liquid and meet occasionally. Finally, they become like gas to blow away from roots and never meet because generation changes.
Perhaps migration is a nature in evolution, development and growth. It is learned that the entire land masses forming different countries were together as one without any boundary. The mass was floating and separated later into major land masses found at present. The theory of plate tectonics stipulates this. Still, lands are floating, expanding, colliding and contracting.
I think that the change in family structure is not the result of one-day actions. The change occurred because of the situations loaded with duties, responsibilities, migration and financial issues but is human-made. This splitting in the generation’s old concept is bringing up many unexpected social problems. Because of this we are having self-centred and calculative attitudes and are not ready to sacrifice. We are also colliding with each other, overlooking the needy and contracting into armour to protect our interests.
We should have feelings of oneness. When once upon a time all countries were together as one land mass and we all are from the same two ancestors, then reasons of fighting with each other on various issues may not be acceptable. It is very ridiculous. Perhaps it is because of pollutants. As the three states of matter are polluted by pollutants, making them spurious and harmful, our minds controlling thoughts and actions are similarly polluted by pollutants. Our pollutants are mainly cruelty, selfishness, greediness and self-centred attitudes.
We are treating water to make it reusable and purifying the air to make it worthy of breathing. Likewise, we should remove pollutants of thoughts and actions surrendering to God. He is our purifier. We should take lessons from our ancestors to live and let live. Our learned community has calculated time and distance to the smallest units for different calculations. But we have not determined the minimum or maximum needs of our mind-affecting pollutants to lead a peaceful and harmonious life. We are devoting lots of time, effort and money to researching the mother particle. We should also devote our thoughts and efforts toward streamlining our societies and behaviours.
We should always remember. We are from land masses that were once united into one. We are having common parental roots. Many problems may be solved if we restore beneficial ancestral social structures. Perhaps, for maintaining peace, harmony and brotherhood among all in the world, there is the concept of vasudheo kutumbkam ( the world is one family) in the Indian Sanatan religion. We may save maximum time for the causes of God following oneness in attitudes and behaviours. There will not be distance-related issues.
Ponder please
I am learned because you do not know my subject or otherwise. We are busy searching for the meaning of life but we miss to lead a beautiful life. We spoil fresh water on the ground but search for fresh water in the ocean to drink. We want a shadow from trees but do not save them from cutting.
I think that we have contrary thinking in our lives. When we are children we think about the special times for our young age in adulthood and contrary to it we do not want to think about our old age because it may spoil the enjoyment attributed in young age. But we may never ignore the realities of life. When we want to grow from children to a young age with all enthusiasm, we should have attraction for imminent old age also. These three stages of a life have migrating qualities with embedded requirements. So, preparedness for each stage should be in advance.
Our childhood mainly witnesses and reflects to a larger extent, dreams of parents. We have only acceptance but we start having increasing dreams for young age with advent of adolescence. We want to be of decision takers up to an extent. However, we feel independent and make our decisions only after becoming financially capable of doing so. At this stage of life, we have zeal and enthusiasm under the control of dreams and hormones. Every hurdle appears to be unacceptable in the way of enjoyment and fun. This liberty claims time and diversions from reality of life meant for. We lose our potential at last.
We accept that God is great. But it is also true that we have to strive for a good life on the shown paths and teachings of God. We have curtain before our eyes, unable to think about life beyond present. We divide time into past, present and future but forget to recall that past, in the beginning of life, has been taken care of by parents and olders, keeping in view of our future with our efforts. When the future becomes present at a young age, we rarely think ahead in short while because we take it for granted that life has just begun in our control. It is a kind of mistake leading to repercussions in a helpless future. We repent but later on.
Now a days we get a lot of literary elaborations on social sites depicting the reasons for treacherous life in the last phase of life. We get many examples and moral stories for a good life. We become suddenly preachers for time passing.
Late is better than never. We should have a plan for life for both bad days and good moments. We always take coaching for achieving the financial goals but never plan for leading an harmonious life. Having diverse knowledge always pays but chapter of life should always be learnt from very basic education. Since our family system has been sacrificed on the altar of developments, we should have a group management system for life.
We should not forget that parents prepare innocent children, not having physical or mental strengths for survival and better tomorrow. We should be cautious for the old age life’s journey. Because that stage has a mood for diminishing return due to fragile strengths and dependencies on others. The young stage is for maintaining balance between two futures – one of the coming generations and another for a certain old phase of life. Old age days should not be spent for repentance and remembering childhood actually enjoyed.
Investment in personal life and simplicity should be first moto along with other responsibilities for survival. Thrill in life should be as a booster for future responsibilities but space should be in heart for others also because everyone may pay back in life at any point in time. Sharing and caring need no obligations.
We should try
We mostly try to know the meaning of life. But we never seriously try to know the importance of enjoyments. I think that the search for meaning of life and enjoyments are related to the brain and surroundings.
Do you know about life?
Do you know about living?
Life is continuity,
Living is a flow,
Stagnant is rotten,
Survival is competitive,
Knowledge is experience,
Education is not literacy.
Progressive attitudes strengthen roots,
Eagerness maintains searching,
Revolutions bring evolutions,
Growths link to migrations.
Because-
Impressions generate thoughts,
Thoughts create interpretations,
Interpretations formulate concepts,
Concepts show intentions,
Intentions make paths,
Paths lead society.
Do not change the truth,
Universal truths never change,
Changes may bring catastrophic responses.
Change the worldly truths,
Your whimsical attitudes differ with truths.
Humanity suffers.
Once bitten,
Never shy,
Your treatments,
Divide humans into,
Rich – poors,
White – black,
Civilised – uncivilised.
No one empowered you,
You snatched humanity,
With crocodiles tears.
If you only exist,
You will not be contented,
Your character will devastate you,
Your existence will face –
Colonialism,
Division among one roof,
Fighting at each stage,
More share and no care,
Traditional dominance.
Your world-
Definitely will be stinking,
Hunger will be enjoyments,
Slavery will be treacherous,
Attitudes will be distinctive,
Behaviours will be arrogant,
One gender will be dictator,
Another will be within the protective ambit of conservatism.
Suppression will be dominated,
Gender equality will be concept only.
History will be repeated,
Your concepts will bring Stone Age,
Den dwelling.
Never forget-
You are not for one,
You are for many.
You are not the creator.
Your literacy is influenced.
Let your humanity be dormant.
Let the truth of God be the same to all.
Half-baked literacy is dangerous to humanity.
Touch the water,
Waves generate.
Thought should be like water,
Reactive to changes.
You have limited limits,
You change your habits and attitudes,
You may not change souls.
You may not interfere in God’s workshop.
You are sowing seeds of disasters.
Where are the enjoyments?
Life is an art,
Why do you make it a battlefield?
Let life blossom.
Let nature care.
We should try.
” Me” Time
I wanted to have my life for myself through others who had affected the meaning of my life and had given a rationality to others through me. In this journey, I had never been liberated in the name of responsibilities which were also my liabilities to meet before actual liberation.
I wanted to continue my childish and innocent attitudes but I was reminded of the age specific changes that seldom suited me and never liberated me. I had learnt the complicated philosophy of life from the simple game having snakes and ladders as the main influencer and controller in the game. I had learnt the cooperations from outdoor games. Even the thin pieces of fifty-two playing cards had influenced me to seek different new things to keep life lively. As in the playing cards, different pieces had values in hierarchy, l, likewise, got the same in my service. Finally, I was like football and never got ” me ” time in this game of life.
Life was free in childhood and was in control of time and expectations of others in adulthood. That was the time of adulthood when I was burdened with many diversified responsibilities, from preparing future generations to meeting the challenges of society, service and others. I had become one of the players in the continued stories of my predecessors.
I met the ups and downs in that period, like changes in seasons controlling lifestyles. I had been accustomed to my life, forgetting rather than ignoring my wishes.
The time, which was not in my control, one day signalled me to think about myself in this changing world where concepts of life and the meaning of relationships had changed because of developments. Developments that were envisaged to make the life comfortable and easy restricted the activities and thinking to be alone. Everyone was busy and active but mostly on electronic media. Everything was available on finger tips.
I felt alone among all in this new world. I could not return to my native place in the village because of a changed lifestyle in due course of life’s journey. I could not afford those things as I was a part of a transitional generation to the newer one, carrying many old values.
I had to adjust in this world. I felt alone when I attained a diamond jublee of age and I was separated from service where I was very important and considered as indispensable once. Those were all situational importance and positional requirements. I was compensated well along with monthly sustainable pension. I thought my time was purchased. All my experiences were not useful to me except giving satisfaction to me that I had contributed in some cause.
Now, I am having a problem spending the time given to me. I am a free bird. As a result, I have my ” me ” time. I am turning to my hidden interests with my friends of school days. I have found happiness in small children. They are eager to know the world with many questions which may be replied to by persons like me, having patience. I enjoy their innocence and smile on ignorance, knowing something new. I am also trying to know, like them, about the world where I have to go at last.
Since departure from the world is imminent, I am enjoying my life as destined by God. I am happy that I am having time for my old interest. I know that life is not perfect all the time.
The moral of life is that everyone, specially belonging to service class, should have some different interests to be engaged after retirement. This makes mind engaged, body fit and uses time positively. No repentance, the God has given full time and space. He is the ultimate truth to be known.
Mercy for each other
Who are we? You humans have given us names. We are silent observers. We have a huge family. We are in size from smallest to tallest and having home everywhere on the earth, in the sea and on the mountain. Our shapes and sizes vary as per height of ground, climate and availability of water. We are of many types but are related to each other. Our mission and roles are somewhat the same. We help each other. We believe in symbiosis. We give and take for survival of each other. We exchange honour. We save, secure and sacrifice for ourselves and others. We have no pause and are always useful, even after our worldly death. We are for others and we do not consume our products.
We love nature. Rain is our nectar. Wind is our swinging agent. We react to natural agents. We take our essentials for survival from earth and return them at the end. Sun gives us energy for food making. Our stored food is the first in the food chain consumed on earth. We give shelter to many animals for rest and abode.
Our list of usefulness is beyond our imagination. We are colourful. We are decorating. We are having psychological effects on brains and control mood. We give pleasures through our attractive roles. We may occupy space in the house also. We keep healthy surroundings and support immunities in creatures.
We never ask for favour and even heal our wounds by ourselves. We are seldom enemies to anyone. But we have dug-out our graves ourselves by enabling the congenial atmosphere for origin and supplying all essentials for the sustainability of humans. Initially, they were in tandem with us, giving full support and respect to us. Later, with the growth and applications of their brains, they are hurting us by overuse for their greed. Our existence is at stake. We give them life-saving gas, consuming their harmful generated gas, but we are succumbing to their attitudes. It is a great joke that they are thinking of us. This will adversely affect them. Their ways are very ridiculous. They are thinking of protecting us by cutting our branches and trunks. They fight for our shadows in cities on the Broadway built by cutting us. We do not know their calculation methods through which they project that cutting trees will not affect climate. What a pity. They are talking of global warming and count for their doomsday. They are great gamblers of their lives. Their dice are warning them. They are cutting trees falling on them, making their graves. Global warming and erratic behaviours of climates are digging those graves.
One day, we may be found in botanical museums as animals, victims to humans, and are kept in the zoo. We are imagining conditions of humans fighting with each other for existence. Who will repent on whom? Every new generation has to bear the brunt of selfishness of older generation. We are giving way to our sacrifices. We have not been replenished at any time because we are plants. We have planted humans at our costs. We may go together. It is true that we are now at your mercy but the facts and results are to be faced by all. When one of us dies, it is not one but many die? So save trees to save everything.
Actually, real anniversary
Age is a number. I turned sixty last year on 24.12.2022, being my birthday on 25th December and retired from my government service from my official duties. As a reward, I have been declared as a senior citizen from that day onward. So, to continue my pleasure, I am celebrating the anniversary of my senior citizenship and sharing my experience. What a pity experience. Time cuts to the size.
It is not easy to sum up the one year happenings because everything is under a short circuit of time as the last reason for every incident of fire in remaining life. Nowadays, I am searching for black hair in my beard while I have searched white hair in the youth stage. Really, mirror shows realities. Its cost does not matter.
After hanging out my ties, I was hovering between two ends – the office and home. Initially, a few months were devoted to the office to complete all formalities to get dues with a mood to enjoy the rest of my life’s time spared and destined before final departure from this opportunistic world.
Whenever I visited my office where I had spent time as a well recognised and accepted person, I found myself to be unwanted and avoidable one by newcomers because then I was sitting on the other side of the table. Sometimes, a courtesy call was given by a few colleagues, likely to have the same fate in the near future.
That was tolerable and expected as being an Ex – employee with designation. But the worst was yet to come. The home – my sweet home – also played its game with the passage of time. Where I was always welcomed with smiles and respect appeared to treat me as a time-consuming person. I think that because of my sold time to my official duties my temporary stay in night and in the morning was always welcomed as if I was staying in a hotel having attractive slogan – home away from home.
Though I was recognising all walls, roofs and floors of so-called my home, members of my family could not digest my permanent stay because I had appeared as a hurdle and disturbing element in their activities. Even my better half took me as a scapegoat for all not fitting actions in the family. I have spent my maximum time of life as a responsible man for all their needs but after retirement, my permanent presence has appeared to be problematic and unavoidable. Even then, I always express my indebtedness to them for tolerating me as a liability.
I have made many lines with several dots for others to be useful to them but those lines are encircling me to restrict from their lives. What a pity in life. Now, I am an odd man who wants a shadow of self life. I think that the pride of fiscal independence takes its price any time in life. Investments in materialistic aspirations are never rewarding.
Under such circumstances as happens, I tried to cope up with new transformation in my family. I tried to find engagements in the outer world. But I could not adjust and admire Television’s shows for a long time.
My outer world is also limited because of my official duties. A few neighbours and a few senior citizens of my age are having sympathetic attitudes with me. In fact, everyone is sailing in the same boat of consuming the time and aspiring for proper treatments. But a few senior citizens have a hangover of their official positions. They forget that values are equal for all fused bulbs in the market.
Now I have found that newspapers and books are my best friends. Social sites are also assisting me to gain knowledge about how to lead life on becoming a senior citizen. As a result, I have turned to be more silent and corner loving gue in my home. Everyone in the family is forgetting that old one becomes like a child and needs treatment like that. Like a child, I am busy in myself.
I have analysed that animals and birds have not forgotten their habits towards each other in their clans. Still, birds make nests in their age-old styles. Crows in modern days also do not make their nests to lay eggs. Cuckoo hatch eggs of crows still in modern days. Monkeys also live like crows and never think of their proper dwellings. However, humans have changed a lot in nature, rituals, and behaviours. As a result, humans are facing a lot of problems in every stage of life, from childhood to old age. The last stage is more treacherous every time. I think because of this, silence occupies the major portion of life in old age. It appears to be the best solution to avoid many problems.
However, my sincere silence is also creating problems in the family. My presence is also irritating. I am getting unwanted advice from everyone. My best companion has also been judgemental to me from time to time. The best part of my life is that I have enjoyed many known and unknown relatives at the beginning of my retirement. Earlier during the conversation, they behaved as my adviser to utilise my time and funds. Now, they are turning their roles to be my controller. They interfere in my day to day activities through my better half. My resistance to them is bone of contention as my well-wisher wife listen to them without analysing their intentions. I am astonished to see the memory power of my wife as she always recalls incidents that happened many years back against her intentions whenever her well-wishers add fuel to the fire to make the situation alive. She is forgetting that bees go to the blooming flowers to suck the juice only.
Meanwhile, diseases are knocking at the door of my body and preparing for a return journey from this world. I am becoming my favourite uncle to the medical shops of my area for their business. Other shop keepers also know me because of my frequent presence. Of course, we are interrelated in society.
Let this stage of my life be a lesson to youngsters to be prepared for the coming days of old age. Let every year of my stay be granted to God.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to my all friends 💐💐🥳
Child
I left, you missed me.
I called, but you forgot me.
I waited, but you overlooked me.
I am a child.
I copy,
I imitate,
I attempt,
I mimic.
But-
I remain original.
I learn from you,
I learn from all.
I am raw.
You mould me,
I am ready.
You give time to me,
I have efficiency.
You explore me,
I am not a product.
You develop me,
I may create.
You change me,
I may excel.
You improve me.
You have opportunities,
You train me.
You have brought up me,
You prepare me.
You have experience,
You make way for me,
You have light.
I am innocent,
Keep me like that.
I am weak,
You give me your hand.
I am fragile,
You support me.
I am your future,
You are my present.
I am a carrier,
You are to pass on.
I am not a target,
I am essential.
I am not extra,
I am part of your ocean.
I am a child.
I am to fulfil the gap.
I am to replace with time.
You may not ignore me.
Give me a charge,
I may steal the shows.
I may create history.
I may prove my worth.
My almighty,
I have interests,
You guide me.
You are my real mentor.
Being Liberal
Generally, when you give liberty to someone because of being liberal, it is taken for granted that you are easily available or approachable. I think that liberty should be given to others up to an extent so that our libertarianism is preserved and the issuing of warning against beneficiaries may not arise in the future for restrictions of unlawful or unacceptable practices. So, liberty needs restrictions. Such restrictions may vary in degree of imposition depending upon the place, time, situation, profession and danger, etc.
In practice, we may have many faces of liberties. Everyone seeks liberty as per age and requirements but beyond that, different kinds of liberties are needed if migration is involved. However, more liberty, more consciousness is required. Consciousness demands vigilance. Vigilance needs awareness and awareness comes from awakenings. Awakenings will keep the misuse of liberty away by acquiring knowledge from historical records and by knowing ongoing social changes witnessed in time and space. History may give details on peace, wars, victories, revolution and the various famous personalities of different times, having changed the minds of people. But it may have some biasness. So, changes in social harmony, culture, traditions, rituals, thinkings and information about influencing factors for topsy-turvy or sea change in major historically established concepts of a nation may be known from many other sources.
Because of studies on history and the changing ideology of different countries worldwide, concerns on existing liberties are necessary. More the liberty, more the interference and more problems emerge.
So, fixation of limits in all kinds of liberties is a must for preserving self, social and national interests.
We may allow a stranger to enter into our homes to a limited space under vigilance. Relationships need self-determined limits to maintain continuity. Opposite genders may be liberal to each other to permit interference to an extent of tolerance. Nothing may be taken for granted. Maintaining a distance is good for the health of relationships along with liberties.
Now a days, it is in fashion to be more liberal in the name of human rights, modernisation and changes in moral values. Age old established norms, for the extent of liberties, in different situations, are being challenged. It may be acceptable if all sections of the society think like that. But due to disparities in many factors, it is not possible. So, strict vigilance is required to take timely actions to retain the values in society.
Being Liberal is good. But tolerance limit is needed. Otherwise, placards showing warning ‘trespassers will be prosecuted’ may not save you. Live and let live is applicable in civilised society. But where stubborn attitudes prevail over humanity, punishment is needed to curb the misuse of liberty. It should not be allowed to a shelter seeker to try to be master of the generous home owner and dictate the terms.
In liberal system, the number does matter. One may be submissive but many may be resistant. They may be obstinate, immodest and unyielding. A group may fight and try to dominate by disobeying the law of the land. They may try to impose their rules by adopting violence to inculcate fear and insecurity among the original natives of the area. This may be applied anywhere on a small or large scale, may be in one nation or in many nations. The nature of any place may be converted by force if liberty is not fixed. So, being liberal is good but ignoring ones identity is like inviting troubles from one’s own mistakes. Name, fame, or history may be changed. Originality may be lost. Numbers demand rights and may control forcefully. Numbers implement favourable concepts vigorously.
We think of hell and heaven in religious contexts to maintain civic sense in society. It is supposed that good acts may be onus for heaven and bad deeds may be liabilities for hell for someone. God has propounded the limits of qualities of actions and deeds. So, we should be careful with someone on the basis of actions and deeds to avoid problems in the future.
On earth, limits in the name of being liberal for liberties should be reviewed from time to time to avoid losing identity of any kind. Late is better than never. Opening eyes to the happenings in the world are necessities for precautionary measures to avoid overconfidence. Number matters before liberalism. Liberalisation pays after liberties are provided.
When we restrict our thoughts to a few books and human-made boundaries, liberalism also needs some special limits to maintain civic securities.
Liberal’s liberalism without demarcation brings liberalisation through liberties for surprising events to repent in the future.
We should remember that one stitch in time saves nine. So, compulsions on talking on outcomes of liberalisation are because still we have failed to accept humanity as only one religion on earth and world as a global village.
FACTS
Everyone knows that status is not permanent. Who will not accept that position or condition may not change? It is also known that time is not multiplied. All such facts we know but in reality, we forget them and repent later on facing the situation. The almighty evolved the life in animal kingdom up to the highest level of humans with developed brains but without languages. The only common language controlled by nerves, continuing in humans everywhere, might be then in existence. All good or bad happenings and habits of the present day are the results of the experiences and needs of humans, faced in course of growth and development.
Human civilization has seen changes from the stone age to the present age of scientific achievements. The changes have been witnessed from mega-sized machines to smaller to nono machines. Developments have been made in many fields. Humans have started exploring planetary bodies and the universe. The weapons have changed from stones of the stone age to modern-day sophisticated weapons. Since then, enemies have changed from visible to invisible types affecting everyone. Most of the changes have been recorded in black and white.
It is also a fact that every new generation has the opportunity to reap the benefits of earlier generations’ developments and achievements without experiencing the efforts made and challenges faced.
One of the facts, I think to be true is the controlling age factor and old age in humans are meant for reviewing life and educating the present generation from their experiences. This age of mine has met a minimum of three generations.
We have seen the maximum changes in social bindings from the combined family to the nuclear family, from cooperative to self-centred attitudes- a deviation from share and care culture.
I remember one incident when I had joined service in a government office where I met the father of my friend. He told about his emotions after receiving his first salary in service. He had spent his salary on the purchase of clothing for his parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. I was surprised to note his feelings because I had sent only half of my salary to my parents. My grandfather had given all his income to his mother every month.
Now, I have grown older and am on the verge of retirement and the new generation is joining the office. I have been surprised to note that most of them purchased costly cell phones from their first salary to show their status without considering the situation of families and moral duties. The new generation has seen from copy to computer and from pen to e-system directly in one go. The earlier employees used to go to their parental houses to reside after retirement. Later, comfort played a role and settlement started in cities. Now the service opportunities are centred in a few places and the concept of ancestor houses is vanishing fast for a new generation.
These changes have mostly affected the old aged persons who have time but no one to share their experiences and expertise of life. When I was in my fifties, I was relaxed, as my father was my advisor and guide for all problems and my mother’s affectionate touch and love were my heavens. I always remained a child for them and enjoyed their experiences. One thing I remember is that in their last days they were like children having short memories and stubborn habits. I became their guardian for them till their departure from this opportunistic world. Now the question is what about me? I have a vacuum. I know the silent, unknown and sad departure of one of my friends because his sons were unable to come to meet him in his dying days. His whole life he had been praising the achievements of his sons for his status in society. We could know about his departure when his body was lying in a closed house, crying for disposal with a foul smell. All statuses proved futile last time without any social security. I am also sailing in the same boat and am worried. I think local common residences or well-managed old age homes may be promising for all aged persons.
Now, the effects of changes are as such that the new generation is not having time for themselves or family. This generation is getting treated as machines in professional life. This generation is mainly active on social media for information, time-consuming likes or comments and relationships after working time. The relations are nearer at the fingertips of gadgets but are emotionally far away due to distress and competition to prove to be excellent and exceptional. Life has been marketed to introduce the best product leading to psychological problems. Their slogan is that this life will not be met a second time, so enjoy it. There should be a new methodology to work free of distress to keep humanity alive. This generation is very sensitive and well-equipped to have an identity.
All problems have not gathered in one generation. We are expecting too much from the new generation without a proper education system and syllabus etc. We are harping on the same string for a long time. We need introspection for the new generation which is more career oriented and wants to be independent of duties towards older generations for lack of ” me time ” and costly lifestyle. We may not make every new generation scapegoat for our faults in teaching them moral, social and spiritual, etc. values and the importance of united families. It is our responsibility for the new world given to the new generation.
Besides, I have seen many changes after the economic revolution, in this one life. We have done more harm than good to ourselves through uncontrolled developments for supremacy. We have maximum adversely affected environments both surrounding and natural. We have seen the extinction of many species of birds and animals. Effects on seasons are also causing more harm to humans through erratic behaviours.
Nothing is permanent. Nature has been revealed through evolution and selection. The fittest always survive. It is the open secret of nature. It is now our turn to cautiously evaluate the progress-related activities for humans’ comfortable existence and sustainability. Otherwise, transformations may be heinous to civilization.
We should observe that nature has distributed all her resources throughout the globe, perhaps with the definite intention of evolving cooperation among all humans, besides geographical differences, for survival and existence. We are witnessing, after the division of land and ocean as properties of different nations that no nation is self-sufficient to survive alone and needs cooperation. We should have progressive scientific thinking to excel.
We have changed. We are changing at our cost.
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