EVOLUTION

THE EVOLUTION.

As i look at Life pass by outside, i hear a cacophony of jarring noises.

I see an unending ocean of traffic coming and going like a wave after wave.

It all seems so senseless.

It is an eyesore.

The village’s landscape has changed. It has mushroomed into a society.

It is now an overgrown and a multimagnified city.

The inhabitants come from places far and wide.

All for and with the same objective.

To earn a living!

Majority have walked out of their villages. Some have heard about their forefathers migrating from villages to towns that are cities. Majority were born in the city.

What losses did this result in?

To whom?

At what cost?

As so-called civilization and evolution overtook villages, towns, and changed things, people changed.

In the name of becoming civil, they lost humanity.

They lost their traditional, ancient skills, knowledge.

Century old practices were discarded.

Ancient Customs were flung aside.

Bygone Traditions were given the go-by.

The Loser Man and Succeeding Generations of People.

How did they lose?

In what way did they lose?

The Nuclear family shoved out the joint family.

Suddenly Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents were made to feel strangers no longer wanted in their own homes and had to stay separately.

Today even parents are made to feel that way!

This resulted in Bygone Traditions, Age Old Customs, Ancient Practices Being Abandoned for Quick-Fix Solutions.

Owing to this, went the ability and humanly evolved art of natural Counselling and Coaching.

Today, we have University and College qualified Counsellors and Coaches.

They come armed with paper Certificates, than Life Earned Experiences.

We no longer have the Old Wise Man, the Village Grand Mother.

Human or within family Counselling and Coaching practices and habits died.

Stress and stress related ailments are now family.

Instances of the elders being available to the younger in the family for handholding, passing down of skills from one generation to another, are almost dead and decadent.

Yes, people must change with the times or else we would be like dinosaurs in Jurassic park that died as they remained from evolving.

However the Change has to be for the Better not for the End or Death of Traditional Customs, Arts, Practices and Skills of Livelihood that Assured Financial Security and Dignified Living to the People.

With the oncoming of each new day, more and more people would be needed who would be able to, “Care” for Mental Health Cases.

Mental health is the Youngest of all Medical Sciences.

The oncoming world would need people who would be using and exercising more of their Mental prowess.

This means, More, Visualizers, Visionaries, Dreamers and People with Tremendous Foresight.

To Assist, Care and Heal them, and their Mental Health Issues, there would be a need for Mental Health Care Professionals.

It is here that, the elders as in the joint family system would have been a big assistance and Help.

It is here that the nuclear family would suffer the shocks, traumas of the progress, the evolution, the absence or lack of their own people whom they could or would be able to relate to.

This is applicable not just in India.

From Nagpur to Nairobi, from Bangalore to Buenos Aries, from Dubai to Denver, from Cape Comorin to Cape of Good Hope it is universal. It is a global phenomenon.

Every nation would feel this and have to address the issue of Growing Mental Health Concerns, later if not sooner.

This is no alarm –bell. It is the Wake-Up Call.

Those who ignore it will bear and face the consequences.

Those who are, Sensitive, Respond and Act would be the ones who can keep marching with changing times and still be evolving.

This is being Realistic and able to See the Clear Picture!!!!!

With Best Wishes,

A.S.Prasad.