(Should others decide how we should feel?)
- Sujit Mukerji
42. If we were/are right, then why the bad feeling(s)?
- Sujit Mukerji
41. Patient: Doctor, everybody looks down on me. People
think I am inferior. I think, I am developing a complex.
After a few sessions …
Doctor: You ARE inferior.
(Moral: Instead of complaining, we should constantly
try to improve ourselves.)
- Sujit Mukerji
40. MODERNIZATION
- daughter, Josheca Mukerji
THE POSITIVE SIDE: Man has been blessed with an insatiable urge to
improvise. His ever increasing curiosity drives him for making endless
explorations. With every passing day, we see more and more things becoming
possible. The newly discovered Boson or God-particle is a case in point as, in
time, it will make everything unimaginably faster. In this journey towards
modernization, man has covered an unbelievable span since he first learned to
understand his needs. The start was slow but as he kept on making progress, his
achievements facilitated his further progress and it thus became a virtuous
cycle. Life today is replete with glorious examples of man’s accomplishments.
The opportunities are ever-increasing. The quality of life is ever improving.
Today it has become possible to do just about everything. The world has been
reduced to a global village. Communications have become so easy and fast.
Transportation more accessible, medical facilities more effective and far
reaching, education and knowledge spreading more - both horizontally and
vertically, comforts and luxuries- ever on rise, thus encouraging us for a
still better lifestyle. No doubt, everything calls for a sacrifice. But, is it
not worth all the trouble? Modernization is a very important thing because if
it had not occurred even the pen and paper would not have been invented. If we
see the history of the world, we would simply know the side-effects and the
right effects of modernization. In the beginning, when the man was new, he
didn’t even know how to communicate. But, as a result of modernization, now he
not only knows how to communicate but also many other things. Due to
modernization, we can now even travel out of the world. Isn’t it amazing?
THE NEGATIVE SIDE: Today’s world is witnessing an ever increasing rush
for modernization. However, as we know, everything comes with a price-tag.
Everyone seems to be so obsessed with the idea of staying in the race and,
possibly, end up becoming one of the leaders, that there is a general tendency
to ignore the negative fall-outs which reduce the entire exercise to the
stature of mere misadventure. The madness is so intense and the approach is so
lopsided that one is unable to realize the magnitude of the losses incurred
therefrom. Lack of proper planning and strategies is making the whole endeavour
a costly bargain. This we can observe in every walk of our life. Let us take,
for example, the case of urbanization.
Urbanization,
as a part of modernization, entails deforestation and pollution. Cut-throat
competitions, without properly effective monitoring channels, despite best
efforts, are encouraging corruption and crimes. Everyone wants to take a giant
leap forward and stay ahead and so, with new avenues opening up, people are
trying to get hold of whatever opportunities they get, as also, wherever and
whenever. This means that there are possibilities of uncertainties, staying
away from families, resorting to unfair means, leading a stressful life and so
on …
Consumerism
is another face of modernization. Lack of enough resources is leading to
stress, frustration, depression, crimes, corruption, loss of peace etc.
A
general drift from our customs and traditions, our cultures, our value system
and such things of which we could really be proud of is being noticed as
another side effect of the so called modernization. So, it can be safely said
that modernization can prove to be a curse if it means uprooting our own
selves, jeopardizing our own lives, destroying our own mental and physical
health, damaging our own potentials, disturbing our own families and
environment etc.
Here
again, the only solution is foresightedness and farsightedness.
39. Puja k
liye puja-sthal, parivesh evam sharir ka swachh hona zaruri h …
Aur mann ka mayel ka kya?
(We are advised to keep our body and environment clean
to get best results like, for instance, during prayer sessions. But what about
our mind, which is so often pre-occupied with negative thoughts?)
- Sujit Mukerji
38. Achhi nazar
ho to achhi baat h;
Achha nazariya ho to kya baat h!
(Good eye-sight is nice but good way of looking at
things and good vision is what we actually need.)
- Sujit Mukerji
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