How Times change .......
After a long time ,today I am posting another blog. Actually the source of inspiration for writing this blog is Ravi. After reading his blog I felt like sharing my feelings on a similar topic. Here is the link to his blog Ravi's Blog
How Times change ...... I still remember those days when I used to come back from school at 4 :30 PM. eat some snacks , go out and play with friends till 7 PM , come back do my home work & Study and still get time to watch TV and get 9 hours of sleep.( A Happy Life)
Now its such that , I have classes at max for 3-4 hours a day , I don't play regularly, I don't meet friends often and still I get jus 5-6 hours of sleep a day ( removing the time I sleep in class :-D).....Now dont ask me Do u study all the time ? ....I dont know how time passes but it just flies away.
Looking back at those days I question myself "where is all that free time that I used to have ? where are all my friends who used to be with me all day long?" and I wonder what's that element missing in my life ?
After pondering over this issue for a long time ..... the truth dawned upon me .........
As a child , You have someone to take care of you and you seldom have any responsibilities, so you are free to do anything you want.... As years pass by more responsibilities add on to you, you tend to prioritise everything that comes in life and thats where you start to loose everything , your free time , your friends and your loved ones :-(
At this point a feasible solution to the above problem would be to accept responsibilites , enjoy shouldering the responsibilities and at the same time cater time for friends and loved ones. Its hard for us to change , changes occur over a period of time and since many of us are in the transition stage it will take for us to change and adapt to our new roles in life
Comments on this blog are invited ,the solution I suggested may or may not be the feasible one. I like everyone to share your views on my blog.
How Times change ...... I still remember those days when I used to come back from school at 4 :30 PM. eat some snacks , go out and play with friends till 7 PM , come back do my home work & Study and still get time to watch TV and get 9 hours of sleep.( A Happy Life)
Now its such that , I have classes at max for 3-4 hours a day , I don't play regularly, I don't meet friends often and still I get jus 5-6 hours of sleep a day ( removing the time I sleep in class :-D).....Now dont ask me Do u study all the time ? ....I dont know how time passes but it just flies away.
Looking back at those days I question myself "where is all that free time that I used to have ? where are all my friends who used to be with me all day long?" and I wonder what's that element missing in my life ?
After pondering over this issue for a long time ..... the truth dawned upon me .........
As a child , You have someone to take care of you and you seldom have any responsibilities, so you are free to do anything you want.... As years pass by more responsibilities add on to you, you tend to prioritise everything that comes in life and thats where you start to loose everything , your free time , your friends and your loved ones :-(
At this point a feasible solution to the above problem would be to accept responsibilites , enjoy shouldering the responsibilities and at the same time cater time for friends and loved ones. Its hard for us to change , changes occur over a period of time and since many of us are in the transition stage it will take for us to change and adapt to our new roles in life
Comments on this blog are invited ,the solution I suggested may or may not be the feasible one. I like everyone to share your views on my blog.
posted by Vicky at
7:05 AM
6 Comments:
Normally the tendency is that we take friends for granted....
We assume that- the friendship that we share doesnot change even if we are not in contact.
Friendship like any other relation needs constant input....
Even if u care abt a frd but don't express it in anyway,then he may assume that u no more care abt him. His attitude towards u might become the same ....
And slowly u find the GAP increasing.
Express urself freely at every moment possible...This is how i feel we can maintain a long term relation.
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Ravi Kiran, at 8:21 AM
I totally agree with Ravi. Relationship has to be both-sided constantly be it friends or any other relation. If you don't take time for them, they assume themselves to be ignored and not bein gin your priority list.
True, our life at this stage is changing but the main decision still remains----are we changing for good or bad? Finding Answer to this gives the solution to your problem of time and maintaing relationship, i take relationship in a broad way as friendship is just a subset of it.
Relationship is all about FEELINGS, which need s to be espressed regularly.Thats what I feel!!!!!
By
Deepak Panigrahy, at 12:19 PM
@ RaviKiran
Normally the tendency is that we take friends for granted
This is the first problem that we have to overcome. We take them for granted and they take us for granted. At this point the drift starts.
As far as expressing your feelings is concerned, you are absolutely right we need to express ourselves to our friends.
@ deepak
are we changing for good or bad?
The change I mentioned here is to take care of responsibilities. So taking up responsibilities is never bad. So what sort of answer can we get from this ?
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Vicky, at 12:41 PM
Nice post, why don't you expand it and post it as a magazine article?
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Anonymous, at 6:49 AM
I too feel the same ra vicky...i feel friends r everything to me and as ravi said unless u keep contacting them,we can maintain longterm relation...i feel im good at keeping each and every friend in contact...even now im proud to say tht if anyone wants other's contact,they mail me to get their details...responsibilities r the age-old question for me as i feel less concern in fulfilling mine...hope i wud get better,no get best in fulfilling my responsibilities...
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Sekhar, at 6:44 AM
hey good post.
thinking of childhood makes me nostalgic and long for the days.
We have evolve better with time.
Gone are those days of endless bliss and infinite care,zero responsibilities.
Good Job!
By
Dainty Damsel, at 6:38 PM
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