Life Changing Patterns
Uploaded by eddyslash on Mar 20, 2009
Life changing patterns
By Navirah Zafar Jilani
With the rapid advancement of media and technology, the packaging of needs have forced small molecules in the human brain to think otherwise. And it goes far beyond that. The choices one makes in life dictates what types of clothes you wear, where you live, who you marry, the colours in your home, the type of plants and flowers you have in your garden, what you eat for breakfast, who you choose to dine with, the type of car you drive, what you watch on television, the music you like, and the list goes on and on. An individual’s lifestyle is dictated by the choices one makes, if that person disregards the existence of the divine spirituality, he/she is nothing but a fool in paradise.
Times have changed people have changed. Yesteryears were innocent days, where a disagreement between father and child seemed objectionable, a disgrace on the child. But now as one looks around you see people’s faces and questions of wanting it all. Life encountered miseries have left the land of amphibians in a chaotic mess. Gazing in the eyes of an infant a father cherishes his heritage, unaware that it is “I” (infant) who will break you down. “What is life”, is it the diamond necklace one bedazzles or is it food on a poor man's table or is it the pleasure a father gets holding his new born.
Back in the days life was simple(not that I'm that old), for some as a kid going to the regular super market to have ice cream was considered a delight, one still recalls the oooh’s and aaaah’s of agitated mothers when asking for ice-cream money. Now if you ask a kid to eat the market ice- cream, he/she might throw tantrums on not agreeing on anything less than McDonald’s sundae.
Society on many intervals have questioned their own kids and the new generation; unquestionably terming old days as good. Surely they were good in reference to the circumstances they entailed says Mahmood Zafar, a banker residing in Sharjah. But with the mingling of technology simpler things in life have changed. Undermining the society with regards to change would be abnormal. The present life requires technology to facilitate daily workings, if one does not incorporate technology with life; the whole essence of living in the 21st century is lost.
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