changing social scenario
had a talk with a friend.....
i feel that there is a generation gap coming up between us and generation that is 12 yrs younger to us... maybe we cannot call this gen. gap..... but then there are things going wrong in society or i guess right!
i cannot say whether the things going on are right or wrong but they exist........
todays children have better control over their lives in terms of decision making. they wont wear anything their mom wants to , or eat anything that they dont want to.... there is practicing of a better free will... i say this, becoz somewhere i feel, our generation supressed all that free will... to keep the parents happy...or to keep the society happy.
somewhere when i was in 7thstd., i read a story about a child and his grandpa... both are trying to make everyone around them happy.... and in the end they lose their only donkey they had.... in the process of keeping the world happy..... this sis the same thing that is happening in our society..... in the process of race for money, reputation(that is false in most cases), our society is demanding too much from children... its taking up their lives, their wishes, their contentment, their childhood, and the most their innocence ....
read somewhere jrd tata stating that society gives us so much and we should give back to it..analysing now.. what society gives us.....
all through my life, i was being taught that money is not important...... well isn't it? had there been money not imp.... could we have had birlas, tatas, and mittal?
take out any college for admission... dont know abt all fields but yes, in medical field, u give a huge amt. to management and they give u a good rank in exam.... and a seat... so, money is not imp.?this si what society is making out of its generation lot.... i accept that there are colleges.. where u get seat on merit too... and u have to work hard to reach there... cool, good... all managements are not bad... in the same way as not all managements are bad...... but aren't we making the work too easy for few students who have the money should not even buy the books should not even study and then they are welcomed in the so called temples of society.... for the financial gains of management ppl, and politicians..... again... is money not imp?
youth today wants to get out of india at every cost.... majority of them do.... they want a job outside, they want to get settled.... they want better life.....
what exactly is lacking in india that they find outside.... (is it just the dollar ruppee conversion?).
agreed upon ppl who have to toil hard to get settled fast and in india the oppurtunitis are few even after 57 yrs of independence..... but what abput hte status symbol some people want to tag on their children as abroad returned to make their rep. in society?
somehwere i read a quotation (forgot who saids this), that man is born free but everywhere he is chains.... now at this phase of life i feel, how true this man had been.... though at that school age i thought him to be stupid...
most of the indian youth still hands the imp. decisions of their lives to their parents , be it education, be it marriage, be it minor decisions be it major decisions... taking the advice of parents in one's decisions and considering it or following it is one thing and putting the whole decision on parents hands maybe good according to indian traditional norms but somewhere it is crumbling our youth.... they cant take imp. decisions of their lives on their own when left by themselves.. . later, in life when confronted with choices and decisions they hardly have the confidence to make one....
we are giving children the gadgets the computers, the playstations... everything changes on the click og a button.....they think life t be such that everything will change according to their whims and fancies , till they are confronted by the social pressure that says.. to be called good they ''l have to do such things and to have rep.. they have to do such things.....are we giving our youth or children the teachings of nanak...or budha, or krishna?
i rmr an incident of guru nanak from my text book............ some poor farmer offered guru nanak bread slices, which was the only food he had... at the same time a rich merchant came to him with all delicious food items.... guru nanak refused the delicious food and accepted the bread slices.... when asked about the reason for his choice by the merchant.., he took both the bread and food he brought in both hands and squeezed them... from the bread came out the milk.., nad from the food of the merchant came out the blood..... nanak said that something that is earned from one's hardwork and perseverance is far more superior than that earned from meanness, shrewdness, and by harming the interests of other people.....
is ur society as of now...an example of nanak's teachings?
i feel that there is a generation gap coming up between us and generation that is 12 yrs younger to us... maybe we cannot call this gen. gap..... but then there are things going wrong in society or i guess right!
i cannot say whether the things going on are right or wrong but they exist........
todays children have better control over their lives in terms of decision making. they wont wear anything their mom wants to , or eat anything that they dont want to.... there is practicing of a better free will... i say this, becoz somewhere i feel, our generation supressed all that free will... to keep the parents happy...or to keep the society happy.
somewhere when i was in 7thstd., i read a story about a child and his grandpa... both are trying to make everyone around them happy.... and in the end they lose their only donkey they had.... in the process of keeping the world happy..... this sis the same thing that is happening in our society..... in the process of race for money, reputation(that is false in most cases), our society is demanding too much from children... its taking up their lives, their wishes, their contentment, their childhood, and the most their innocence ....
read somewhere jrd tata stating that society gives us so much and we should give back to it..analysing now.. what society gives us.....
all through my life, i was being taught that money is not important...... well isn't it? had there been money not imp.... could we have had birlas, tatas, and mittal?
take out any college for admission... dont know abt all fields but yes, in medical field, u give a huge amt. to management and they give u a good rank in exam.... and a seat... so, money is not imp.?this si what society is making out of its generation lot.... i accept that there are colleges.. where u get seat on merit too... and u have to work hard to reach there... cool, good... all managements are not bad... in the same way as not all managements are bad...... but aren't we making the work too easy for few students who have the money should not even buy the books should not even study and then they are welcomed in the so called temples of society.... for the financial gains of management ppl, and politicians..... again... is money not imp?
youth today wants to get out of india at every cost.... majority of them do.... they want a job outside, they want to get settled.... they want better life.....
what exactly is lacking in india that they find outside.... (is it just the dollar ruppee conversion?).
agreed upon ppl who have to toil hard to get settled fast and in india the oppurtunitis are few even after 57 yrs of independence..... but what abput hte status symbol some people want to tag on their children as abroad returned to make their rep. in society?
somehwere i read a quotation (forgot who saids this), that man is born free but everywhere he is chains.... now at this phase of life i feel, how true this man had been.... though at that school age i thought him to be stupid...
most of the indian youth still hands the imp. decisions of their lives to their parents , be it education, be it marriage, be it minor decisions be it major decisions... taking the advice of parents in one's decisions and considering it or following it is one thing and putting the whole decision on parents hands maybe good according to indian traditional norms but somewhere it is crumbling our youth.... they cant take imp. decisions of their lives on their own when left by themselves.. . later, in life when confronted with choices and decisions they hardly have the confidence to make one....
we are giving children the gadgets the computers, the playstations... everything changes on the click og a button.....they think life t be such that everything will change according to their whims and fancies , till they are confronted by the social pressure that says.. to be called good they ''l have to do such things and to have rep.. they have to do such things.....are we giving our youth or children the teachings of nanak...or budha, or krishna?
i rmr an incident of guru nanak from my text book............ some poor farmer offered guru nanak bread slices, which was the only food he had... at the same time a rich merchant came to him with all delicious food items.... guru nanak refused the delicious food and accepted the bread slices.... when asked about the reason for his choice by the merchant.., he took both the bread and food he brought in both hands and squeezed them... from the bread came out the milk.., nad from the food of the merchant came out the blood..... nanak said that something that is earned from one's hardwork and perseverance is far more superior than that earned from meanness, shrewdness, and by harming the interests of other people.....
is ur society as of now...an example of nanak's teachings?
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