Modern lifestyle of people
is not unhealthy but it's so stressful and sedentary that they have no enough
time to set mind in quest of improved lifestyle.
There is a growing desire in
people to live ‘young’ regardless of age. People don't want to just sit idle and
keep themselves worthless anymore, it seems like everyone is trying to stay as
active as possible. They want to remain as green as possible for as long as
they can. People today want to take more control over how they look, feel and
think than it was in the past.
As many Indians believe in
Yoga, physical exercise and maintaining routine work in daily life in order to
get improved lifestyle, it is a good sign for further development in standard
of living. But on the other side it is observed that Indians are failing to
keep up with stressful work environment and now increasingly working late,
staying out late, dining or partying late and going to sleep when it’s almost
time to rise.
People are more committed to
eat healthy food to keep fitness as a mean to de-stress from hectic work
pressure, combat unhealthy eating habits, sedentary lifestyles, and to prevent serious
health or medical issues. The concept of having ‘power’ foods that balance
taste and health such as power grains (i.e. quinoa, millets, etc.), power
fruits (i.e. avocado) is being popular. Naturally healthy foods and beverages such
as fruits or vegetable juice, olive oil, soybean milk, brown bread, high fibre
biscuits and oats are more choicely today than in the past. They don’t mind spending
extra to buy foods and drinks that have required amount of fat, calories and
sugar. Today there is a rising demand for foods and beverages with ingredients
that provide functional benefits like elements for strong bones, vitamins to
provide energy, etc. etc. Growing interests are being observed in dietary
supplements and sports nutrition products. People are more concerned than ever
about where their food comes from and how it is produced. But it is a matter of
regret that most of the people have not started reading a greater extent of
detail information on product packs. It is a fact of growing concern over what actually
goes on and into people's body.
The fitness revolution has added
fuel to fire of need to build a well-toned body. Indians are starting to be
familiar with fun exercises like Aqua Zumba, Surfboard Fitness, Hula Hooping,
Parkour, Ballet Barre etc. etc. They tend to eat large number of small meals
instead of a few larger meals throughout the day.
The economy is appeared to
be better comparatively than as it had been earlier. Society has stepped into
ultra modernized state. But there has been an erosion of trust in established
institutions, authorities and everywhere including government, media, big
companies, brands, big hospitals. People today are still afraid of showing
physical protest against issues regarding policies of the country, pollution,
health, corruption. In the past young people used not to get interested in
government policies because they marked politics as a dirty thing as they
learnt from their parents. A number of opportunist politicians have taken the
advantage of this ideology in decades. Today’s youth also are not physically
involved in the political process but young people today are more socially and
politically conscious than generations of the past, raising their voice against
issues particularly on social media. People are using humour to take on burning
issues in social, political and environmental troubles, the country is facing
regularly. No doubt population growth is subjected to be a matter of concern
and at an explosive stage. On road, public places, market and in public transit
people have grown more intolerant of each other, be it in their actions or
gestures; sometimes it is happened to be a quarrelsome approach expressing
their beliefs, opinions, especially on social media.
A greater sense of
attachment to family is grown up; but it has made people self-centered in
social attachment besides thinking of their own welfare. Parents today put
pressure on their kids than parent's generations before to meet the challenges
of their studying task or achieving a rank in competitive environment instead of
helping them to lead stress-free lives. It is a growing concern that parents
today indulge their kids to bring about their own parental guilt.
Cultures across Indian
states have never been homogeneous to each other. Diversity in lifestyle has
been noticed since historic age. Now, from food, clothes, practices, festivals,
language, everything is starting to blend with western influence.
It is good to see that women
are becoming more powerful at home, in society, and in administrative or corporate
hierarchies. They are rising up for themselves taking decisions independently
rather than expecting others to do it for them. Old age people didn’t believe
that women should be able to have interests, and be active, in areas other than
family life. Women today are starting to think about their personal own life outside
of family. Clothing, movement and gestures of women have got a noticeable
change and for college going women sometimes it goes out of such a limit that
educational administrators are thinking of ruling over them. Society is ready
to accept such advancement of women; but for educationally backward unorganized
sector it seems to be unacceptable and in fact even some approaches of women
calls danger failing to keep protect their modesty.
A big change has been rising
in people’s interest in sports in recent years. Now people are taking more interest
in other sports and sports personalities outside of cricket. But still now people
prefer seeing larger-than-life heroes on TV and in movies rather than believable
characters and situations. Though it is noticed in smaller part of young
people, but today's sources of inspiration have moved beyond movie and cricket
stars to technocrats or entrepreneurs and everyday people find inspiring
things, big or small.
Advanced communication
technology creates an increasing dependence on the internet and mobile apps to
get everything done successfully. Internet is rapidly becoming popular source
for news. People have access to so much of information at their fingertips that
anyone can learn about anything virtually overnight. Instead of just sending words,
many more people are learning to send a picture or video. New ideas are coming
up. They try to teach themselves through an Apps or website if they want to learn
how to play a guitar. Grocery shopping to booking flight and purchasing movie
tickets to making payments for utilities are not harder today for someone who is
fully dependable on Smartphone.
Students are intended to rise
in working on some start-up ideas on the side of conventional education. Today’s
teenagers seem to realize their calling in life earlier than their previous
generations. It is good to see that young people today seem to understand the
importance and benefits of hard work.
A sense of achievement is
growing in people and it is no longer just a mean to earn money. There’s a rise
in people who are starting their own businesses, whether as a full-time job or
just a project of their long lasting desire on the side of their profession.
We should think about
building a nation of doers rather than a nation of dreamers. The days are
passed for arm chair critiques or silent victims.
Authored by Supratim Bandyopadhyay
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