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Is urban stress breaking down relationships?Indians always were surprised at the rate of breaking down of American marriages and nevah cud understand why it happenned. It happenned in Japan as well, where young women stopped getting married and the country's population growth plunged, so its not about western or eastern values, its about the price of success. Its happenning more and more in our cities. Despite having bigger cars and bigger houses, why aren't people happy??? Why are'nt people happier??? Is the price of success, breaking down of marriages and deteriorating health???
The reason is that the urban turmoil creates amazing frustration and negative energy in us. This makes us let our steam out at home. The relatively small issues become issue of big ego tussles and about man woman supremacy. Its because people are too involved in the mess they created in their urge to be successful, that they forget to say and do those little nice things that built relationships. Its coz they believe their dreams are bigger than their relationships. Its becoz in their urge to win the rat race that we are running away from the very happiness that made us participate in the rat race.
So do we leave the rat race and lead ordinary lives? Will that bring back happiness? I think the forgotten word here is "contentment". There needs to be a certain milestone in life, where a person needs to be satisfied with his achievments and look back at his life. If u keep lookin for "more" and "better", the rat race will end someday, and so will a lot else. 9% growth needs infrastructure and needs healthy people. We need to learn to balance material success and emotional stability. I think our generation faces the tough job, of making the transition from age of starving for consumerism to the age of plenty in more ways than one. The framework we develop will help our kids deal with a time of extraordinary opportunity and extraordinary challanges.
What can be that framework???????? |
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