Compared to last generation, we have lot of occasions created to present a gift. Many day’s like friends day, Valentines Day, mothers day are advertised and celebrated more religiously ;-) If you analyze the gifts that we share these days, they are mostly fancy artificial things. It is not that they love these things and they gift. They are narrowly forced to, as these are available in the market easily.
It’s worth remembering the famous monkey story at this juncture to analyze the above scenario
There were five monkeys inside a room. When one monkey goes near the door, hot water was poured on all monkeys. Other monkeys thought going near to the door caused hot water to be poured on them. So they quarreled with the monkey that went near to the door. Then this monkey is removed from the room and another monkey is put inside the room. When second monkey goes near the door, hot water was poured on all monkeys. Other monkeys thought the same as earlier and quarreled with that monkey. Then this monkey is also removed and another new monkey is brought in. By looking at these, new monkeys thought that they have to quarrel with the monkey whichever goes near to the door. Finally, all old monkeys are removed and five new monkeys are brought in. Pouring of hot water is also stopped. Now if any monkey goes near to the door, other monkeys will pull and quarrel.
So some practices are accustomed based on ignorance and short thinking. We would feel and think differently, if we know big picture and are given freedom (freedom from fashion). Our selections and its consequences would be different then.
Our gift practices like tie a band on our hand, or heart balloons etc are similarly forced by the narrow options available on the market on these occasions and the custom followed by our friends. Why not we plant a tree or donate a meal to orphanage or do some similar social activities as gift to express our love? I think we don’t have enough advertisement to market these activities. It is not followed as practice as advertisement p
lays a crucial role on our thought process today. Because of less advertisement, we haven’t thought about these. Let the change comes slowly and steadily so as to permanently last long for years. Let the readers of these blog be a change agent to the society by gifting a tree on auspicious occasions.
Ruropedia presents shows some easy ways to gift a tree:
1) SEVA - Madurai is committed to do this service. You can contact them for any auspicious occasions. Please visit their site from links column of this blog and contact them. They would plant trees on requested date and time for your beloved person.
2) I saw the below Ad in last Sunday newspaper. It's worth share with you all.
It’s worth remembering the famous monkey story at this juncture to analyze the above scenario
There were five monkeys inside a room. When one monkey goes near the door, hot water was poured on all monkeys. Other monkeys thought going near to the door caused hot water to be poured on them. So they quarreled with the monkey that went near to the door. Then this monkey is removed from the room and another monkey is put inside the room. When second monkey goes near the door, hot water was poured on all monkeys. Other monkeys thought the same as earlier and quarreled with that monkey. Then this monkey is also removed and another new monkey is brought in. By looking at these, new monkeys thought that they have to quarrel with the monkey whichever goes near to the door. Finally, all old monkeys are removed and five new monkeys are brought in. Pouring of hot water is also stopped. Now if any monkey goes near to the door, other monkeys will pull and quarrel.
So some practices are accustomed based on ignorance and short thinking. We would feel and think differently, if we know big picture and are given freedom (freedom from fashion). Our selections and its consequences would be different then.
Our gift practices like tie a band on our hand, or heart balloons etc are similarly forced by the narrow options available on the market on these occasions and the custom followed by our friends. Why not we plant a tree or donate a meal to orphanage or do some similar social activities as gift to express our love? I think we don’t have enough advertisement to market these activities. It is not followed as practice as advertisement p
lays a crucial role on our thought process today. Because of less advertisement, we haven’t thought about these. Let the change comes slowly and steadily so as to permanently last long for years. Let the readers of these blog be a change agent to the society by gifting a tree on auspicious occasions.Ruropedia presents shows some easy ways to gift a tree:
1) SEVA - Madurai is committed to do this service. You can contact them for any auspicious occasions. Please visit their site from links column of this blog and contact them. They would plant trees on requested date and time for your beloved person.
2) I saw the below Ad in last Sunday newspaper. It's worth share with you all.
3) Please visit "Tree for Life" link from the links column.
Happy planting trees!
2 comments:
Many major revolutions happend not simply because of advice or law.the realisation happend through GLAMOUR.what iam coming to say is like glamour of IT jobs,Glamour for Valentine's day ,glamour of western culture,english....these are the things happend like anything but made revolution (hope) among the people .
so like SEVA there should be many NGO's and even goverment and private bodies should open centres to do the same services with many fancy setups.
if the things happend thro laws it will happen but it will take time.with this people will get can /should get many options to plant tree are to donate any thing they want.only thing it should be easily available to the public,
why iam telling all this because i realised the importance of planting tree and i want to plant many.but till date i did nothing like that:-))
if anything made into Fancy espeacialy to the youth people then it grows like anything.so that kinda things should happen.and let we all salute all the organisations who are all doing such a wonderful and great job at thier level.
"GLAMOUR cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.- John Berger"
"The four stages of life are inFANCY, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence "- Art Linkletter, Canadian-born,American Radio and TV Personality, Actor.
Gift a tree concept is good
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