Sunday, January 17, 2010

Relationship's Today

The word "Relationship" has found altogether different meaning in today's world. Modern world has accepted different verses of relationships and now we also have a status available in all popular websites, which says ' Complicated" as current status of relationships. Initially while creating my account with Orkut, I found this word called "complicated" and trust me ..its very true. In today's society, i find all relationships in complicated status. If i peep through 15 years back in Indian society..people never appreciated the idea of nuclear family and Joint family was considered pillar of society and family. while our society evolved with the help of modern thinkers and media,people realized that staying in nuclear families allows them with independence of life, which was not possible in joint families. While we observe more nuclear families in  2010 and joint families are loosing existence in rural India as well, we have been plagued by growing vacuum of managing  relationships. While i meet people and listen to their thoughts for modern world, one thing which is commonly repeated by them is " We don't know how future generation will look at things " As a country of billion people, India celebrates more than 100 festivals every year ..do you think next generation will have that much time or interest to celebrate festivals. Now that raises a bigger question for our society as this marks a danger to country's heritage and culture ??
I read a book called " Cultural heritage of India" during my post graduation in Advertising and Marketing and it was quite insightful about our country, i would like to be honest here that initially i was just another bored student of that lecture but slowly i started taking keen interest..one of the important things that i learnt was" Hindu Society and its values have been passed on to us by our ancestors via Shruti and Smriti (Things that are heard and memories) and till date it continues..but i am not sure about future!
We have changed materialistic, greedy, hypo critic and these attributes portray a picture of relationships we manage in our society. Somehow its getting very difficult for us to stay "Contended" and I believe that's one of key reason behind changed society and changed relationships..we are not happy with what we have got..rather we are distressed with what our neighbours/relatives have..

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