Yes,I am talking about the barriers that exist between people..may be based on religion,caste,creed,status or whatever people choose to distance themselves from other people..
As far as I know, money is the greatest divider of all..Nowadays it is more evident than eveer before since money means respect ..I heard from my grandpa that there was a time,a time when people were respected based on their good qualities and behaviour,a time when people were content with what they had ,and everybody knew about one another...
But now sadly,money decides everything..
Since the moment you are born you are taught to do only one thing i.e,earn money..
Your purpose of life is fulfilled only when you earn truckloads of money..Your words dont carry the authority untill you have money.
No matter how intelligent you are,how creative you are these qualities dont count till they result in creation of money..there's a subhashita in sanskrit saying the how a person with money is all powerfull ..
I'm sure you must have heard people talking excitedly about somebody's job based on the hi-fi salaries they get,and how their kith and kin are wasting their resources blah blah...
But when you cross the wall and come to other side ,then only you realise that there are lot more problems on this side..
As soon as people start earning a high amount of money,they build this invisible wall..
You can see their houses,being high walled..their expensive sedans having tinted glasses
The start to beleive they are better than others and start searching for their equals in wealth..
But there are very few rich people nowadays..and very few good people among them.
So these people get stuck..They cant lower their standards nor they can live without having social interaction with others.So most of the rich people are lonely..They dont have a friend in whom they can confide their fears or losses..So these group of people are more prone for developing stress related health disorders .More pathetic is the story of their children..
They are not taught about the life in the normal way..They are overprotected,over stressed and sometimes overfed.Most of these children dont experience the joy of playing in the ground with other playmates,simply because their parents are worried if their child gets spoiled by 'low-class' children .So many of them have a serious communication gap with their peers,their parents and others also.Poor kids,they are simply confused with this 'status equation'.So many of them have a troubled youth..
There is much more to be told about this situation ..I will continue some other time
Concluding the article I'd like to advice people not to build these walls around them..
To believe that every human is born equal is important I feel..
yes....what u wrote is a true picture of 21st century that the gap between rich and poor has widen to a greater extent especially in the developing countries like India.The rich become more rich n poor people are becoming more poorer.this is really a threat to a country like India.
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