Everyone wants to listen to his own voice
One of the best phrases, I have encountered in my life. It took me only 3 minutes to appreciate the phrase verbally but 3 years to realize its practical value in today’s ERA OF PREJUDICE.
In today’s era when individualism is touching new heights, everyone is engaged in proving others that what he thinks may not be correct but it is right. We can take it as an unwanted parcel came with the modernization of India. Now there is a conviction, self belief. One thinks that his thought process is absolutely right and there is no need to pay heeds to others view. People (Gen Nex) lack other orientation. Their approach is if I am Happy everyone is Happy. If people around me suffer let them. At the end of the day I should be happy. There is a serious flaw in this thinking. How long would you be able to derive benefit out of others without bothering about them? Only till the point others has respect for your views and ideas. The day you meet your ideological replica, you will be under tremendous stress. As the number of individualistic characters in society increases, you will have more probability of not feeling well out of meeting such people. In a way, you are not only troubling others but you are buying stress for yourself.
From economy prospective when consumerism is driven solely by the feelings of consumers, a manager not having other orientation as his inherent strength can not do justice to his job. One of the major reason for the failure of an economic entity is that it tries to drive the market as it wants, do not change itself as market wants. All these things points out that there is a strong need for caring others. Self confinement makes your thinking narrow. In an envisaged integrated world, can we think of individuals who are separate entity and are ideological disarray? No we can’t. Either our dream would remain dream forever or the individuals with self centered approach will cease to exist. Whatever happens, we will see a completely new society in years to come.
I would like to end this article by the following words
Caring others means catering yourself
Reference :
Saswata Dey, Who introduced me to the title phrase. I am not sure but it could be his brainchild.
2 comments:
Yaar in today's world success has been redefined.It now has a muted "material" accompanying it as in 'material success'.Therefore caring for others is more of an ideal now than a practical option. I mean you need to be practical in your approach. You can care upto an extent. If you are more caring then you get labelled as a soft guy and every one then makes you a soft target. Unless you have the tenacity to withstand the world its prudent to be careful and not caring.Caring can be limited to your saturday NGO workout and liberal donations.
Coming to individualism, this is something I always ponder about. I believe individualism is a trait of a mature society. A society which recognises the intelligence of individuals in it, and hence affords them to excercise their will. Individualism also goes well with the well established concept of laizzez faire. Lot of individualistic persona in a society leads to better societal evolution as each individual thinks of ingenious ways to better his chances - the old survival of the fittest. This race to be the fittest ultimately leads to increase in fitness of the society as a whole.
The problem i think is that we dont realise that the rights and wrongs have not evolved with time. Our reference for judging acts should be modified in keeping with time.
I think both of us are on opposite end. I am not denying the importance of individualism but emphasizing the importance of caring. I agree that too much of caring type attitude is a problem but I am on the other side of spectrum while writing where people just dont care.
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