As the economic boom continues and people are getting more and more ambitious day by day; if you sit back and take a bird’s eye view of the situation – one may see that things are not as they seem to be. The fact is people are getting busier day by day; they have no time to sit back and relax.
To be frank, today’s working youth has no time to; even attend phone calls (that are not work related) most of the time. A typical workday starts at 7:30-8AM from getting ready to work and reaching office by 9. This ends by 6-8PM depending upon the workload, plus the traveling distance. Rest of the time is spent either on internet, TV, relaxing, having food etc. This problem is further compounded if you are staying with your parents. Then there is absolutely no time et al. However, people staying independently still have some time to touchbase with friends etc. But those times are so late in the day that one may only touchbase with other people in similar situation like them (Other people who are living independently). Well this leads to only casual relationships or friends and no real relationships or real friends. This takes its toll in the long run in many ways. There is very little or no scope for having a friends circle outside your office colleagues.
Well this is one problem; there are more problems that are slowly cropping up – like health related issues, stress etc. We seriously need to look for more venues for improving our lives. Life is not just work, but many other things. Fun and relaxation does not mean partying out late, binge drinking, taking dope etc. These methods of fun and relaxation often lead to feeling more tired and stressed out than he/she was previously.
Conclusion: We must seriously try to pause, our fast-paced life and take out time to reflect upon what are we doing and where are we heading? How this all is affecting your personal life?
Discussing all the issues and providing solutions to these issues is out of scope for this post and may be this blog.
To be frank, today’s working youth has no time to; even attend phone calls (that are not work related) most of the time. A typical workday starts at 7:30-8AM from getting ready to work and reaching office by 9. This ends by 6-8PM depending upon the workload, plus the traveling distance. Rest of the time is spent either on internet, TV, relaxing, having food etc. This problem is further compounded if you are staying with your parents. Then there is absolutely no time et al. However, people staying independently still have some time to touchbase with friends etc. But those times are so late in the day that one may only touchbase with other people in similar situation like them (Other people who are living independently). Well this leads to only casual relationships or friends and no real relationships or real friends. This takes its toll in the long run in many ways. There is very little or no scope for having a friends circle outside your office colleagues.
Well this is one problem; there are more problems that are slowly cropping up – like health related issues, stress etc. We seriously need to look for more venues for improving our lives. Life is not just work, but many other things. Fun and relaxation does not mean partying out late, binge drinking, taking dope etc. These methods of fun and relaxation often lead to feeling more tired and stressed out than he/she was previously.
Conclusion: We must seriously try to pause, our fast-paced life and take out time to reflect upon what are we doing and where are we heading? How this all is affecting your personal life?
Discussing all the issues and providing solutions to these issues is out of scope for this post and may be this blog.
4 comments:
Hmmmm ... Agree with a lot of what you said here, but I would like to discuss it further. But not right away. Later, when I have more time ....
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Why is everbody who is reading this post has the same response. I have had few responses in my email saying the same LOL...
I would love to know your views on this.
To continue with my comment .... what I wanted to say ...
Having hardly any friends outside our work group. I agree with this completely. We have such hectic life styles that we do not have time to meet people. Or if sometimes, we do find time, we do not know whether the other person will be available. The problem gets compounded when either you or your friend gets married. You have so many social obligations to fulfull that it becomes near impossible to get your schedules to match. Morover, with most of the people who are your friends at your workplace, somehow friendship remains within the bounds of office - you rearely meet many people outside on a personal note. But I think this is not just a matter of having free time - it is much more complex than that.
One, you think that if we are going outside, must we go with the people from office, whom we meet on a daily basis anyway
Two, you would not like to associate with people outside, because in a stressful environment, it is envitable that feelings of jealousy, mistrust etc are developed
Three, if you do meet people from your office, the talk invariably gets to office things, it bores the spouses (in case you are married), and it again brings the same stress to your mind which you were actually trying to escape.
The other part of the problem is that we are not able to keep in touch with (most of) our school and college friends. Again, different schedules, not to mention different locations put a constraint on meeting with them.
So, we continue to live in a friendless world.
I still have a lot of things to add, but I need to collect my thoughts further. Maybe I'll compile them all and post it on my blog.
Again, the question is why do we have such a hectic lifestyle?
Even with hectic lifestyles, some people manage to find time for everything and some cannot. Is it time management? Different priorities?
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