This document discusses how modern lifestyles and values have led people to view family as a burden. It argues that prioritizing family and relationships over materialism and independence leads to less stress and a more fulfilling life. While society encourages individualism, humans need companionship. How we perceive our situations determines whether responsibilities feel like burdens or virtues.

1. Anup Panigrahi
Feb 26, 2015
What has really turned out to be a burden today?
A family! Responsibilities! Ah, here it is!
When we work in an office, we do our jobs, never think it as a burden; just because we
get some money at the end of the month, that’s it!
Where in, we spend our days and nights much worse than a donkey, anyone pitches in and
talks about policies and ethics, sends you a note on organizational etiquette, what to
wear and what not, threatens for yearly appraisal, hike and promotions and an alarming
job risk.
Does it really require so much money to live a peaceful and better life? Or, are we
trying to compete with the world (brothers, sisters, friends, society)?
Say, it be a developed or, developing countries, situations are more or, less the same,
independent and individualistic thought process.
How can someone or, something be independent in this lively universe?
It’s always coexisted an independently dependent relationships forever. But, we define
it, on the basis of material calculations and wrongly pronounce it dependent and
independent and it has taken a real shape to the same meaning in the current era and
silently infesting adverse family-socio pathways.
Something which we should own righteously has become a burden for many individuals now
a days. It’s because of their sway of independent life style, an unexpected pocketful
money, do not have the profound customaries and restraints rather swinging family and
social base which gets easily influenced with the colorful ideologies, the ego and
overbearing proud diminishes the senses to identify the right and wrong. Which is
resulting in many of the countries a highest rate of divorces even after self-chosen
marital tie, a live in relationships, multiple partners in a life time, one goes and
one comes in, a go goer and who cares attitude.

2. Anup Panigrahi
Feb 26, 2015
What has really turned out to be a burden today?
As a social human being and a very common people, we need someone’s company to share
your joy and sorrow, to share your emotions, to laugh with someone, we want to look at
someone’s face and smile; else, you are not a mad! You need to satisfy the personal
needs and so as a life of a human being has become more like an animal with fleshes
and organs but rare senses and reasoning.
In such a fragile relationships, modern women’s want to get baby or, they try different
medical practices to satisfy the motherhood. Is it just to keep themselves busy for
few years and to enjoy the motherhood as long as the child grows?
Nevertheless, what really happens to that growing kid? Do we really try to understand
the psychic status of that kid? What does really influences and feeds in the brain of
such kids? Do such environments keep any values for love and family and potential
relationships?
However, after certain points of time, life of such an independent individual
personalities become more stressed, lonely, drug abuser (as long as money is there
with them and later they are ready to do anything, because they cannot quit their
habits, situation brings them to the street and either they become mad or, suicides).
When we understand the priorities of life, when we priorities family first next all of
the other things, life will be smooth, nothing can look like a burden, a stress free
life to be rejoiced, there will be luminous in the face, things will start following.
One person may spoil your day, one person may snatch your peace and the same person
could be the center of all affection and attraction to change the whole world of yours;
but it’s we to set the priorities, it’s we, where we want to keep that person in our
life? Whether that person really matters in our life? Whether can we stay away from
that person? Whether do we carry a little expectation out there?
If No! Either you are a Saint or, you are not closely related to that person and there
is not, no reason to be stressed out. Just detach yourself and connect with the super
soul, the almighty or, with your closes one.
If Yes! Then there is certainly no reason to be stressed out. Because, nothing can
look like a burden, you must have big arms to welcome and own it and every
responsibilities will look like a virtue.
Situation is a static, we create the situations. The way we per see the things, the
way we act, situations takes a turn to that direction. We have the power to give it a
direction. Be a change, to see the change. Be like a bamboo; stand tall, bend but do
not break. I say it a bamboo theory. Acknowledge it or, refuse it! Attitude matters!