Can We Dare To Change?

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Most of the time we feel very strongly against many a things taking place around us. But hardly ever we decide to act boldly. Be it any injustice being meted out to someone unknown to us today or to ourselves tomorrow, we prefer being silent spectators. Accept it or not for "practical reasons" we avoid the whispering sounds that say: COWARD.

As is visible in the way the foreign lifestyle has engulfed our life and mindsets too. Parents have stopped sounding like a 'nuisance' anymore since they realized their suggestions are viewed as 'interference' in their own beloved kids' life. They have somehow submitted themselves before the regularly updating definition of freedom.

There was a time when everything required a permission of parents. One couldn't decide upon living 'his/her own way' just because he/she has got into a 'big' college or institute. What a youngster watches on TV or listening or doing in his/her spare time was parents' first concern.

Not to all youngsters such regulations felt 'disgusting' or 'suffocating'. For, being just open to SEX was not the only benchmark of anyone's being 'modern' or 'person of this planet'. People had friends and a huge social life too. Today, even mentioning such thing can make your listeners turn off their faces or laugh at you. Probably, such talks look fairy tales of 18th century. Of course today's youngsters are many a times sharp-minded than youngsters of their age in the recent past. But it is also true that most of the youngsters appear engulfed or swallowed up by the 'copy cat' style of life. What we watch on big or small screen we just follow it without applying even our common sense.

Certainly, the long cherished lifestyle in urban and rural areas of the country had its advantages and disadvantages too. But it had the power of keeping families united. It had the charisma of going to each other's place for great affection. Today, it is just to sound 'being in touch' we visit anyone's place. The values we give to our relationships have lost their sheen. Except on marriages, parties or funerals that we come to reunite for a few hours. Are we not living a life of seclusion in the absence of our near and dear ones? We can take it as reward (read penalty) of blindly submitting our lifestyle to 'Filmi lifestyle'.

The sudden exposure of Cable channels have brought in Hollywood's vulgarity in our Indian families. Today, as a parent one cannot just tell a little strongly to his/her own child about not doing anything. For, they know the suggestion would fall on deaf ears.

As today's youngsters are fast loosing faith in tolerance. Unsurprisingly, such an attitude creates problem in nurturing relations in married life too. Just ask any parent to go and stop anyone from watching any song or movie, which is coming on television. The hesitation would be just because nobody wants to face an 'open-mouthed' reply. But why? Who is responsible for such a precarious situation? Cannot we, as youngsters, make our parents at comfort with us?

Be it any 'item number' or late night episodes shown on AXN or Movie channels, the media moguls are simply attacking our life and brain-washing our future generations. Like any individual with no control on his/her lifestyle or objective we have somehow submitted ourselves to others' way of life. By the time we realized the repercussions of such a 'trapped lifestyle', we would have lost our golden years of career too.

It is regrettable when the western world is striving to take lessons from our tradition way of family system; we have lost interest in it. Can addiction to marijuana, cocaine, foreign-brands of drinks or half-naked lifestyle makes us look more 'successful' than anyone in any part of the world? Well, sooner or later we have to learn what we could get benefited from even today-the Indian lifestyle.

We should show how much deep-rooted we are to our family values without feeling embarrassed of it for a second in any gathering. It is only when we learn how to live with pride in our present circumstances, we will ensure great success despite every limitation or obstruction. But are we ready to change at bit today?