Are we monkeys?

Today, let me take you to the journey of our modern and evolving lifestyle due to globalization. In my travel journey, I got an opportunity to meet people from different countries, having different cultures and I am amazed to see how they are living their lives - following their culture with evaluation.

Now you will say, we are evolving as well. With educations, internet, we are becoming "modern". Take a pause and think, the life you are living in is really modern? What is your definition of modern? Wearing fashionable clothes, going out for partying, drinking alcohol, going on a vacation on our festivals instead of celebrating it with family, or not celebrating our festivals at all in-short following the foreign culture if this is your definition of modern then you need to stop there and redefine it.

If you look closely at the foreign culture, these things are part of it but there is another side as well. Giving freedom to their children to choose their carrier, their life partner, their life. Are we following that? No, we are not giving our children freedom of their thoughts, freedom to live their life as they want. Like monkeys, we only follow what we see on the internet and in movies.

Becoming modern is not adopting someone's lifestyle as it is, becoming modern is evolving our own culture. Evolving it with understanding and need of today is modern. There is no modernization until the time you change your thoughts about life and people.

In the race of modernization, we are forgetting our culture and adopting foreign culture blindly like monkeys without understanding. In my opinion, modern is giving your younger generation freedom to think, to try new things, to explore this world. Are we thinking about that? Pass on your knowledge of local culture to your children instead of teaching them foreign culture.

There are always good and bad of any culture, whenever you travel, try to understand the culture of that place. Take the good of it and leave the bad aside. This is how we can evolve our culture and become modern.

Next time, try to know the "why" behind any culture before you start adopting it blindly just because you think it's modern and will look cool in front of others.