Peer pressure
or overall social pressures that lead to social stereotypes.
BE or MBBS or
CA or Law, along with socially approved and locally appreciated extracurricular
activities, followed by 50 k plus
salary, followed by car EMI, marriage and then buying a house.
These are the major
components of prevailing market stereotypes.
If girls
additional item Gold is added to the list.
Life is mostly
made to be lived without personal reflections, without carefree enjoyment devoid
of obsession with goals, without adventures and some risks, without any
ventures.
None of these
are part of life's experience nowadays.
A time table is
set and everyone is expected to go through the preset motions of existence [within
the prescribed time table] without living life.
Even passions are socio-culturally prescribed.
Even passions are socio-culturally prescribed.
So, no wonder
most of the present generation has lost the joy of living.
The spontaneous
cheerfulness and humane relationship without inhibition are missing and they
are replaced by measured reactions and ritualistic and hypocritical
acknowledgments to please others.
I wrote this A-
Z free verse for a student's magazine in 1991.
It is very sad
that a whole generation is made to lead this zoo fed animal like or caged bird like
existence.
Excessive emphasis
of all these based on mere monetary affluence at the cost of enjoying life which
[of course with self discipline, without being immoral, with self respect emanating
from the strength of inner self, clear observation, clarity of understanding
and self confidence, more importantly all these irrespective of any academic excellence]
drives in more pressures and leads to lack of peace later on in the individual
as well as the family and society at large, lack of gratitude, lack of trust ,no qualms about cheating on anyone etc.
We fail to
realize for a minute neither our health is dependent of specialist doctors and nor our
food on number of agricultural scientists, though their role is equally
important but even much before they came into picture we were getting good food. Imagine
if all the paddy fields in India have to wait for clearance and approval by agricultural scientists.
On the
whole joy of simple living and humble attitudes coupled with adventurous
spirits has been replaced with the implantation of supposedly more secure and
safe options which have undoubtedly produced many useful, not necessarily
capable and clever, but useful and reasonable entities for others.
Most things are compromised for all extraneous considerations which have nothing to do with life intrinsically.
Most things are compromised for all extraneous considerations which have nothing to do with life intrinsically.
This reminds
me of George
Bernard Shaw’s famous observation:-
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself.
All progress
depends upon the unreasonable man”.
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