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A journal on the materialistic approach of the socity |
I, Me, Myself... At a glance it may seem like a dialogue of a Bollywood film, Ready. Where the protagonist Mr. Salman Khan says that " Never underestimate three things in life..I, Me and Myself. On the contrary it may be a simple and humorous dialogue but it has got deeper meanings and modern day philosophy of life hidden in it. Today we feel that 'I' am the owner of my destiny and I can do whatever I like. All the resources of the world belongs to 'Me' and I 'Myself' can achieve all the success in my life. Now these three words are the root cause of all the troubles in the world. These are not just words but a self centered way of living of our modern day culture given to us as a gift by the materialistic approach towards life. In olden days we had the tradition of combined family. People used to live together and feel for each other. Father's words were like commands to there children and they happily accepted it without any malice. Yes there were some fights and jealousy in the family but that all used to end with more love and affection. And today even parents have became burden for there children, better not to talk about their relatives. No one wants to live in boundaries. Everyone wants to be free, free from every relations and free from all the responsibilities. The morals and values of our life has dropped to such an insane level that we are loosing faith in every relation. Our faith in marriage institution is also loosing it's ground. That is why we have started liking the "live-in" relationship. The "Test it-try it" mentality has given birth to such a crap in the society. Today center of gravity for us has become the materialistic approach towards life and in that process we tend to loose all the love, affection, care, respect and that special bond which units a family and dear ones. We only think about ourselves. We do not have the guts to ask questions to ourselves. Actually we do not want to do so. Why anyone would like to introspect himself, when he is doing good in his life. Yes definitely he would not do so. But there is a certain time in life when the person inside us asks question am I happy? have I done justice to my relatives and relations? Is my life worthy enough. The answer to these questions are not very difficult. The only thing needed is an honest effort and if we can go through our holy books, we can find the answers easily. For example; Veda and Purana(The Hindu Holy Books) According to the Veda and Purana(holy books) "I" gives birth to arrogance. Arrogance is the mother of Selfishness. When a person becomes selfish his focus shifts to "Me" and "Myself". Now if we can think little broadly than we can say that this 'I' is not just a word but a feeling; a feeling of being great, a feeling that makes us feel that I am the best. This is the feeling that makes our nature arrogant and ignorant. This arrogant and ignorant entity of our nature shifts our focus of life to 'Me' and it's moral values to the core of selfishness 'Myself'. So we can see that the core of every problems in our life is the feeling of 'I', 'Me and Myself' are mere its siblings. This is how my title gets justified..I, Me, Myself. But beyond this title there is another set of three words that have the the greatest feelings of togetherness, love, care, happiness and most of all unity,that is; "We Us and Ours" Choice is all yours... |