Education Vs Enlightenment(Shaoor)

[bella88]

Re: Education Vs Enlightenment(Shaoor)

@Simply_Seema

I am a firm believer that education brings you enlightenment along with a degree and should not be considered only for a job but my belief always gets shaken whenever I enter Life 1 . I understand people of my mom’s age having MIL/FIL/anyIL issues as the older generation was not educated properly, like my paternal grandmother doesn’t even know how to read or write. Also not having different perspectives due to lack of media, entertainment, information etc. was a factor so most of the older generation used to do what they have seen their elders or others doing.

But now a days when people are getting married they will be most probably going to educated families and will be educated themselves to a certain level. Still we are seeing the same type of saas bahu issues occurring not only on GS but also among majority of the married ppl I have met which does not make sense to me. In some cases both parties (The couple and their families) are highly educated but they lack the skills that we gain while educating our selves like logical thinking, compassion, compromise, learning from other’s experiences etc.

Like shouldn’t the MIL’s of this age be more compassionate towards their bahus’s after having their own experiences or shouldn’t today’s bahus be more logical and understanding about their inlaws knowing that it’s someone’s son they are marrying.

May be we didn’t learned anything in school or may be we did but don’t want to apply in real life then what’s the point of having an education?

i feel like maybe since they went through a tough time as a bahu, they feel like its their turn to be the evil MIL.. sadly, women can be very jealous creatures.. i think a mother naturally feels jealous when her son has another woman in his life. especially in desi culture, where sons are valued alot more than daughters, mothers tend to be very proud of having a son. as sick as it sounds, its really obvious that they are jealous of their DIL. one of my friends mother cried so much before her sons wedding, she said a part of her felt really sad that her son would belong to another woman. i dont really understand this behavior though since im not a mother.