Too much care?

The battle to live an exorbitant life that should be 'advertisable' anywhere, is leading people to fool themselves into believing that struggling for career growth is the only way to prove love for their family by surprising them with fancy gifts at the drop of a hat , living in an marvelous apartment, dressing up like models and VIPs , and moving around with luxury cars. And STILL !! We often feel the need of vacations from this supposedly-awesome life. On the contrary , when I look back at my prior years of life , I don't remember feeling the need of holidaying just to run away from the normal life. We did not have any luxury then. The only luxury we enjoyed was exceptional relationships with family , friends and neighbors. Everyone around me seemed to care. I remember sulking my face to school one day. I had innumerable friends to ask me what's wrong, it spread like wild fire in the class that Maryam is not doing well and the whole class was up to something crazy to make me smile. We sulked more because we had more people to care. We feigned sickness just to get extra pampering from mom , so that she would bring fresh, hot food to your bed. We looked like extra-lean 'Gawars'. Neither we cared nor did anyone else.

But nowadays, even if we don't feel physically or emotionally well, had a fight with someone close, won a war in the crazy traffic to show up in office , still we have always have the pretentious smile on our faces , we just never sulk on the outside because we know today, there no one who would care, instead you would promptly be labelled as a "negative" entity. I have seen people in my office having heated arguments with someone and 5 mins later you see both the entities smiling and laughing merrily with their own so-called friends circle. They are "vibrant" people. But how is this possible? Because... nobody really cares (other than family of course) . Fighting is very natural thing. They say it is a greatly required skill to be at peace with yourself in the modern times.

And , want to know who cares most nowadays about you ? Yes..........!! it is Myntra, Jabong , Flipkart , Foodpanda, BookMyShow etc etc and what not , who seem dead concerned about us.They care to bring us the almost impossible-to-believe offers for our advantage. They have offers to fight our Monday morning blues, have freshest styles(clothes) for our Tuesday , of course, the don't-cook-Wednesday food offers and the famous Big-Bazaar Wednesday sale , throwback Thursdays (they seem throw us back the money we gave them for purchasing stuff), buy-one-get-one pizza at Dominos and happy hours for Friday. You have the male deo companies promising the males that any sexy girl won't be able to resist on you and would cling tight with your body. VLCC's claiming to help you lose 10 kgs in one month's time. Happy hours on drinks are needed for friends to talk and connect well. Young couples relationships are somehow sustaining and managing on "give and take" policy, instead of love and care.

Till date , I have experimented a lot on attaining peace with myself and for me , I have found that healthy relationships helped me a lot on this. There is no investment required for love or friendship but yes, can make your journey of life much more joyful and full of energy! You can cut down on so much of boredom. Don't fear setbacks/back-stabs so much ... Before you get the setback (if you ever get one, ..... and if you don't , you are lucky for life !) , you will have some of the lives most cherished moments !! By God's grace, I am lucky to have experience some of such moments.  :)