blazeofglory
07-11-2008, 12:09 PM
I often happen to mull over the fact whether olden parents could bring up their children or modern ones with their educations.
In fact deep down I opt for olden ones, for, olden ones had lots of time for their kids, whereas modern mothers have very little time for little ones. Olden mothers were too backward, not read on health matters, had little knowledge about educational tools. They were shoddy, ignorant. Yet they had something precious we all lack, and kind of empathy, deep-rooted affection which are in short supply in our times.
My mother was a simple old styled woman. She came of a very remote village. She was not savvied or unversed with modern techniques. She did not teach me how to read. For she herself was illiterate, honestly speaking. But what I found something superlative in her was she lived a harmonious life. And we had a harmonious one under her care.
I was brought up in an agrarian community. My father had a few acres of land and we worked on farm together. I had to tend cattle.
Now I compare her with modern mothers. I do not mean modern mothers were worse. The point is they are circumscribed and they live under very different circumstances. Every walk of life in their cases is full of challenges.
They are outgoing, and some are forced to earn a living.
Today why people have stresses, and why they can not accustom themselves to circumstances? The one and only reason is they did not have a childhood in which they were adequately tended. They have all the comforts and luxuries one they want but love, care, attendance are some of the things they were deprived of. These deprivations have led them to a variety of traumas, shocks, and these things later led them to be depressed.
I may be considered going against the stream of time. And I am not critical of modern mothers. For they fall victims to circumstances. It is not up to them to modify and be adaptable and acquiescent. I do this in order to get all aware of the reality of life.
Over time we are evolving, and the evolution we go through with many scientific and technological progressions did not better our living conditions. Conditions for living well are not amenities, physical facilities and luxuries alone. There are things subtler than them and if we fail to identify them we will not live being fuller and happier.
Of course now we have gone far and going back in time is out of question. We can not urge modern mothers to live the kind of lives their grandmas did renouncing all they have in point of fact.
But what saddens me most is the fact we are losing sensitivities. We see too much violence and brutality these days. Now we are becoming insensitive to such things. When we are tortured and seeing others being tortured has been something commonplace. Maybe a routine of life.
Indeed circumstances have numbed, anesthetized us and we become growingly nonreactive or immune to circumstances.
Imagine a future of us, or if we die what we will bequeath to posterity. I can not think.
Life in developed countries is not harmonious. I am not biased taking side of developing countries. In developing countries there are inequalities; there are cases of mistreatment of children and women and in fact they have no rights in so many countries. Notwithstanding all these circumstances, people are comparatively living less stressful lives. They are poverty stricken, yet they are less stranded compared with those in developed countries.
I am go adrift or off the topic. It happened spontaneously. Ideas flowed and I did not trim them. They took a natural course uninhibitedly.
Yes modern mothers account for the kind of stressful lives people are living and fathers also can not evade the responsibility. Children are reared in a circumstance wherein they find themselves imprisoned by worlds of comforts but lived stranded in every walk of life.
In fact deep down I opt for olden ones, for, olden ones had lots of time for their kids, whereas modern mothers have very little time for little ones. Olden mothers were too backward, not read on health matters, had little knowledge about educational tools. They were shoddy, ignorant. Yet they had something precious we all lack, and kind of empathy, deep-rooted affection which are in short supply in our times.
My mother was a simple old styled woman. She came of a very remote village. She was not savvied or unversed with modern techniques. She did not teach me how to read. For she herself was illiterate, honestly speaking. But what I found something superlative in her was she lived a harmonious life. And we had a harmonious one under her care.
I was brought up in an agrarian community. My father had a few acres of land and we worked on farm together. I had to tend cattle.
Now I compare her with modern mothers. I do not mean modern mothers were worse. The point is they are circumscribed and they live under very different circumstances. Every walk of life in their cases is full of challenges.
They are outgoing, and some are forced to earn a living.
Today why people have stresses, and why they can not accustom themselves to circumstances? The one and only reason is they did not have a childhood in which they were adequately tended. They have all the comforts and luxuries one they want but love, care, attendance are some of the things they were deprived of. These deprivations have led them to a variety of traumas, shocks, and these things later led them to be depressed.
I may be considered going against the stream of time. And I am not critical of modern mothers. For they fall victims to circumstances. It is not up to them to modify and be adaptable and acquiescent. I do this in order to get all aware of the reality of life.
Over time we are evolving, and the evolution we go through with many scientific and technological progressions did not better our living conditions. Conditions for living well are not amenities, physical facilities and luxuries alone. There are things subtler than them and if we fail to identify them we will not live being fuller and happier.
Of course now we have gone far and going back in time is out of question. We can not urge modern mothers to live the kind of lives their grandmas did renouncing all they have in point of fact.
But what saddens me most is the fact we are losing sensitivities. We see too much violence and brutality these days. Now we are becoming insensitive to such things. When we are tortured and seeing others being tortured has been something commonplace. Maybe a routine of life.
Indeed circumstances have numbed, anesthetized us and we become growingly nonreactive or immune to circumstances.
Imagine a future of us, or if we die what we will bequeath to posterity. I can not think.
Life in developed countries is not harmonious. I am not biased taking side of developing countries. In developing countries there are inequalities; there are cases of mistreatment of children and women and in fact they have no rights in so many countries. Notwithstanding all these circumstances, people are comparatively living less stressful lives. They are poverty stricken, yet they are less stranded compared with those in developed countries.
I am go adrift or off the topic. It happened spontaneously. Ideas flowed and I did not trim them. They took a natural course uninhibitedly.
Yes modern mothers account for the kind of stressful lives people are living and fathers also can not evade the responsibility. Children are reared in a circumstance wherein they find themselves imprisoned by worlds of comforts but lived stranded in every walk of life.