for past sometime…i’m really missing some traditions…
though i’m not sure if these r just eastern or western or whatever …??
i love to travel in past …sometimes…!!
i recall sooooo many things …n now these days i’m really missing the meal time , how it used to be…!!
when we were children …we always used to had our lunch or dinner together…!!!
i can hardly remember any day when we didn’t eat the dinner together
my father is a businessman n is always very busy but still somehow he managed to join us for supper…!!
yes lunch time was not together so regularly but quite often we had our lunch together…
tea time in evening was always like a get together for all youth…though many of us don’t like tea but we used to enjoy the time
n we had so many things to do that we never tried to watch tv for recreation …specially when we were together
BUT
now what i see is …we hardly eat together …n if we manage to do so we have all our attention just towards tv …you don’t notice how your kids r eating …or may be there is something on the table which was cooked specially for you …or may be something tastes great today …or whatever…!!!
n its even bad when kids do something funny you just don’t respond or if you do you ask them to shut up coz you r listening NEWS…OHH…i just don’t like it …!!!
you are 100 % right ...lagta hai meray khaaylaat aap ne likh diyee , that is how i feel and i do ..we dont have enuff time for each other nowadays ..kids r being ignorning , life fast ho gee hai ...while living in same city we dont see friends & family often , where r we going ?
Most families don't operate as such anymore unfortunately, Afia, and it's mainly due to the stresses of daily worklife and our hectic lifestyles. Nonetheless, a conscientious effort should be made by familial patriarchs and matriarchs to ameliorate the situation.
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Most families don't operate as such anymore unfortunately, Afia, and it's mainly due to the stresses of daily worklife and our hectic lifestyles. Nonetheless, a conscientious effort should be made by familial patriarchs and matriarchs to ameliorate the situation.
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In most families both mom and dad are working in the end we have a pretty disorganized family This is not every one's case so don't attack me].
but you are right back home i remember everyone eating together. Here we have cell phones and everyone is there when its emergency
i strongly believe that it all depends on the parents. if they want, they can spend a quality time with their family, no matter what. they are the one's who know whats right and whats not; and more importantly how they want it to be.
well, life is busy d u h ! ] it has always been like that i think with the exception that now there are 2 paychecks in the house instead of 1. its upto us how we utilize our time. it might not be easy but its not impossible either. its all about setting ur priorities. and i think family should come first.
both of my parents work. and we still managed to spend a lot of time together. i remember when we were young....in the morning when it was time for us to go to school; my parents would literally feed us breakfast in bed and they would play children's nursery rhymes in the background [to wake us i guess]. i think they took turns in who get's to feed whom :~)
i wish i could do the same ..... to my parents..i might some day heh :-D
at bed time we would all fight for who gets to sleep next to ami hehe :-D
and we regularly use to travel EVERY weekend.
the most manageable time to spend with ur family i guess is at dinner/lunch...
our cultural values like these are the ones which i never want to lose.
not just traditions, but there are so many things which are changing so rapidly, and i hate it when i look back and think that things are never gonna be the same again, no matter how much we try, how much we succeed. Its really depressing, everyone running after the worldly things, people forget what is the basic need of life, to love, to care for each other. Happiness, money does'nt bring happiness. We believe we have prospered so much and succeeded, but the fact is we had to give up so much.
For example me, I am over here studying in US, and my parents are in Dubai, they are going old, this is the time when i need to be there with them. its really depressing...