We leading a better life than our fore fathers'??

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Hello everyone...😊

Are we leading a better life than our fore fathers'?

Take a look at this-a high tech job, fast pace, glamorous life, wealth, power and fame. Sounds great. Dear friends it only sounds great. A recent survey has revealed some harsh realities of high tech employees. In one of the most technically revolutionized cities, 36% employees have been registered as cases with psychological problems. 20% of employees have considered suicide at some point or another. 28.5% have complained of constant stress and strain. Is this what we call a good quality of life?

We may feel that with so many opportunities and success stories we are heading for the 'Incredible Country'. How can our country get this status unless there is contentment and happiness in homes of the people who are striving to make our country to make a leading nation of the world?

Are we calling this kind of life better than our forefathers' era when simplicity, tranquility and good health were not compromised with? How can we undermine the lifestyle of a generation that placed values and family bonding on a pedestal?

Our forefathers definitely lead a better life than ours. Ours is a life full of compromises and adjustments for survival.

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No one's gonna say that you're wrong here, I am pretty sure. But there's always this concept of 'access of everything is bad' that is ignored so much, it results in stuff like your post topic mentions. True that. I cannot honestly say if mine's a better life because just yet, my age people are stereotyped about their lives or something, I am too! Though, socially speaking, ours is a much better world than our ancestors. I know there are still beasts and headless people out there, but they are inevitable morsels of the society. We live busy lives, almost live-and-let-live and some Indo-Western kinda culture that has been established over a decade, not anymore than that.

You look around, you'd see women wearing queer combinations of clothes and accessories, like bangles made of glass, all shimmery and jeans with tops that speak the kind of English they might not even understand. You'd see all the people speaking in a depressing English mixed with more unexpected Hindi than basic grammatical errors. You'd see a variety of options in terms of food, apparel and everything available to all. So everybody knows what McDonald's sells and shopping malls are no more a luxury. There are poor, really poor people but everybody has a mobile phone. But given these people's nationalities, they don't quite still understand where to spit and where to pee. India and its most neighbors are absolutely obsessed with litter. And the psychologically unfit people you mentioned are part of it Indo-Western race, a little disgusted with litter, might I add. 😳

Basically, people are more open to change now than before and this does include those in rural areas as well. But all this change comes, given you pay well, cope well with its backdrops. You must know, Earth as a whole itself isn't very healthy, so this unfitness also comes along with all the opportunities and technology we are getting. And in my opinion, I feel I am learning to play my part well. I am observing where I live and grasping things that need fixing. I personally feel that mine is a better life than women who couldn't even write and read for themselves. Hence, I do all the things I can do on a personal front for perseverance.

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Depends on the perspective...of how you see a 'better life' or mean by a 'better life'...

Are we 'morally' better than are 'fore fathers'...probably not...and for me leading a morally correct life is more important than leading a comfortable life...

Are we leading a better life in all other aspects...like material comforts, education, technology, medicine and cure etc...I would say yes ...we are leading a better life than our fore fathers...

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Originally posted by: blue-ice
Depends on the perspective...of how you see a 'better life' or mean by a 'better life'...

Are we 'morally' better than are 'fore fathers'...probably not...and for me leading a morally correct life is more important than leading a comfortable life...

Are we leading a better life in all other aspects...like material comforts, education, technology, medicine and cure etc...I would say yes ...we are leading a better life than our fore fathers...

but wht abt the stress and compromises, adjustments tht we have?

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Originally posted by: taanufanvartika

but wht abt the stress and compromises, adjustments tht we have?

You have to be kidding urselves ..if u think that our forefathers did not have stress...they may seem simple to u considering the technology we have today at our disposal but they were big challenges for them...even sending a message to someone must have been a big stress considering they depended on pigeon mails and smoke signals for communication...regarding compromises and adjustments don't u think they must be making more of that especially the women folk?...

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Originally posted by: blue-ice

Are we 'morally' better than are 'fore fathers'...probably not...and for me leading a morally correct life is more important than leading a comfortable life...

I think whether our lives are morally better is relative.

Perhaps the nuclear family, disintegration of old school family values and heightened sexuality might not seem moral.

However, in terms of the fact that we deem that even girls have a right to go to school, even women should also be able to have careers, that men and women are equally responsible for children and household, that girls should not be married as soon as they hit puberty, that demanding dowry is wrong and harassing a girl for dowry is horrid, that respect and love in families ought to be mutual and no one person should have absolute authority over another due to age or relation, that women who cannot conceive need to be treated with respect and compassion too and that the inability to conceive can also lie in the man, that widows/widowers also need to be treated with respect and it is OK for them to remarry and have families especially when young, that our caste system is a societal wrong just like racism, that our temples and public places cannot be exclusive for the upper elite and a lot more ' I would believe there are many ways we are morally better off as well.

Are we morally superior or inferior to our forefathers? I don't know and I don't think we can fairly assume either way. But I think we have a lot of morality going for us and some against us, and like with every generation we are just a product of our times.

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Originally posted by: return_to_hades

I think whether our lives are morally better is relative.

Perhaps the nuclear family, disintegration of old school family values and heightened sexuality might not seem moral.

However, in terms of the fact that we deem that even girls have a right to go to school, even women should also be able to have careers, that men and women are equally responsible for children and household, that girls should not be married as soon as they hit puberty, that demanding dowry is wrong and harassing a girl for dowry is horrid, that respect and love in families ought to be mutual and no one person should have absolute authority over another due to age or relation, that women who cannot conceive need to be treated with respect and compassion too and that the inability to conceive can also lie in the man, that widows/widowers also need to be treated with respect and it is OK for them to remarry and have families especially when young, that our caste system is a societal wrong just like racism, that our temples and public places cannot be exclusive for the upper elite and a lot more ' I would believe there are many ways we are morally better off as well.

Are we morally superior or inferior to our forefathers? I don't know and I don't think we can fairly assume either way. But I think we have a lot of morality going for us and some against us, and like with every generation we are just a product of our times.

When I said morally better...i was not even thinking about the marriage or families etc...I was thinking more about crimes and corruption and there is no doubt in my mind that our generation is weaker morally when it comes to crimes and corruption...

I agree with you on the women issues that you have mentioned that we are definitely better off than our forefathers and that is why if you see my second post ...I did say that the women had to make more compromises and adjustments in the older generations...

Marriage and families are a matter of personal choice...u want to marry or not, want to live in a joint family and nuclear family are all personal choices...people should never be judged on that basis...

For me being moral is not lying, stealing, cheating, killing etc...some of the basics that would stand true in every generation, in every culture and every country...when I compare its only on the basis of these...rest is all relative and depends on perspective...

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Technology has greatly made living very much easier but on the war front, more people are being "murdered" and maimed due to advanced weaponry. Terrorists have become more greedy for power and wealth and they have become more daring and thus the rise in "suicide bombers".

So a lot depends on which country we are in.

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Originally posted by: blue-ice
You have to be kidding urselves ..if u think that our forefathers did not have stress...they may seem simple to u considering the technology we have today at our disposal but they were big challenges for them...even sending a message to someone must have been a big stress considering they depended on pigeon mails and smoke signals for communication...regarding compromises and adjustments don't u think they must be making more of that especially the women folk?...

The grass on the other side always looks greener 😆

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Originally posted by: blue-ice
When I said morally better...i was not even thinking about the marriage or families etc...I was thinking more about crimes and corruption and there is no doubt in my mind that our generation is weaker morally when it comes to crimes and corruption...

I agree with you on the women issues that you have mentioned that we are definitely better off than our forefathers and that is why if you see my second post ...I did say that the women had to make more compromises and adjustments in the older generations...

Marriage and families are a matter of personal choice...u want to marry or not, want to live in a joint family and nuclear family are all personal choices...people should never be judged on that basis...

For me being moral is not lying, stealing, cheating, killing etc...some of the basics that would stand true in every generation, in every culture and every country...when I compare its only on the basis of these...rest is all relative and depends on perspective...

Everything is relative . Robin hood stole, killing the enemy is considered an act of valour, lying and cheating by lawyers is considered skill. Depends on one's perspectives -

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