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By Sarah Mahmood
Yesterday, I mentioned a little something about dinner time being family time, and then went pretty much off the track lambasting the ills of the over-usage of technology. Today however, I'm going to focus solely on the importance of family and the quality time one spends with them.
Not everyone's born alike. Most of the people I see around me are extremely prone to stuff, which I for one, only use in cases of extreme need, the cellphone for instance. This sometimes leads me into an inability to relate to their state-of-mind, their addiction to all this 'unnaturalness' and eventually an unwelcoming attitude at their end, towards the otherwise inherent human traits of finding happiness amongst one's own 'near and dear'.
Youngsters nowadays tend to find solace in their friends and other outside 'entities'. The sibling-to-sibling understanding is no longer a characteristic of our households.
Especially prevalent among guys (who somehow are never satisfied with sitting at home no matter how rare that might be), these habits are eventually making our relationships more and more distant and somewhat cold. The concept of a central living room is fast diminishing, with everyone staying more and more in their own rooms what with the added facilities of personal computers, t.v.s and other what-not's available right there.
It takes a far-sighted mind to see what may or may not happen with the seemingly insignificant decision of whether we want the t.v. in the room or somewhere more approachable to the family as a whole. Dedicated to my father, the Pensive today is an attempt at clutching at the last straws of breaking bonds, the bonds that once were!
Yesterday, I mentioned a little something about dinner time being family time, and then went pretty much off the track lambasting the ills of the over-usage of technology. Today however, I'm going to focus solely on the importance of family and the quality time one spends with them.Not everyone's born alike. Most of the people I see around me are extremely prone to stuff, which I for one, only use in cases of extreme need, the cellphone for instance. This sometimes leads me into an inability to relate to their state-of-mind, their addiction to all this 'unnaturalness' and eventually an unwelcoming attitude at their end, towards the otherwise inherent human traits of finding happiness amongst one's own 'near and dear'.
Youngsters nowadays tend to find solace in their friends and other outside 'entities'. The sibling-to-sibling understanding is no longer a characteristic of our households.
Especially prevalent among guys (who somehow are never satisfied with sitting at home no matter how rare that might be), these habits are eventually making our relationships more and more distant and somewhat cold. The concept of a central living room is fast diminishing, with everyone staying more and more in their own rooms what with the added facilities of personal computers, t.v.s and other what-not's available right there.
It takes a far-sighted mind to see what may or may not happen with the seemingly insignificant decision of whether we want the t.v. in the room or somewhere more approachable to the family as a whole. Dedicated to my father, the Pensive today is an attempt at clutching at the last straws of breaking bonds, the bonds that once were!
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