Erosion of human value in the society

In any forum, we all realize it is always bad to start with a negative note - much less a negative subject like this erosion of human value in the society but we are helpless today! Human value is on the verge of extinction - A major concern to those who profess and practice it.

This is more in today’s industry where all professionals chase

THE MONSTER – Money - and in this pursuit sacrifice human value Please allow me to pull a leaf out of my own experience

When I was in a manufacturing industry where I had started my career at Chennai way back in 1976 – half of you would not have been born or would have been in a very tender age, I used to go round the shop floor only to be welcomed with a beaming smile from one and all there – a blue collar culture prevalent in manufacturing set up

Later, I joined ,to further my career, an I T industry and found that none had the time even to smile and greet you when you cross each other I was so puzzled I thought I should venture to replenish culture here !

From then on I utilised all forums and platforms I have taken the liberty of speaking to impress upon human values and have been fortunate to meet with little success though. Let us look at one of the stories that most of us are perhaps familiar with – a mail that I got time and again for us to learn how pathetic the society today is :

A child, whose parents were working Professionals, fends herself independently . She started collecting money from her parents daily and saved it in a hundi and daily used to look at what the savings had been till it finally got filled up .

With pride she took the ‘hundi’ to her parents saying that she has saved all that were given to her by them all these days Her parents were very proud too of their child’s disposition and appreciated her efforts and idea of saving what all were given to her with little knowledge of what the child was to say about it. She looked at her parents appreciably acknowledging their pride and posed a question to them as to what they were being paid by their employer per hour.

The parents, while wondering what the child was up to, however said that they were paid around $ 20 per hour. On hearing this she went to open her ‘hundi’ and found about $50 in it – all in small changes though. She brought the small changes to her parents and gave them $ 20 each with tears rolling down her cheeks. Her parents asked her what was this all about and why was she giving them what they gave her all these years and why was she crying. She said, here you are Mummy and Daddy, I gave $ 20 to each of you only to request to spend an hour each with me.

I felt and always feel very bad and emotionally disturbed too whenever I read this message .

This goes to prove that we are all chasing money without realising what we are sacrificing – the values.

Today, we see specifically in the I T industry people are stressed out and for paucity of time they don’t do justice to their chosen role as a Parent, Husband Wife etc

What does that sum upto :

• We do not respect each other and our ego surfaces every time we see some one
lower in the strata to lose so many good people and things God has
given us to cherish
• Ignore parents who have spent their lifetime for you to be prosperous in the
society only to push them into Old Homes clearly telling them we don’t care
for them anymore
• Sacrifice the value of give-and-take because of depletion of joint stock
families culture

AND

THE MOST DAMAGING THING THAT HAPPENS TODAY IS OF GAP BETWEEN HUSBAND
AND WIFE – A GREAT CONCERN AS THIS INVARIABLY ENDS IN DIVORCE
and leaves their children uncared for.

I am here with this subject only to impress and prevail on each of you upon :

• learn to smile – a unique trait God has given only to human beings
• hold your values – inculcate the habit of give & take
• respect others, as you expect them to
• spend some time with your Parents [the past] , your children
[the future],utilising your time now [the present]
• draw a line between profession and home to be more happier than you are
• find some time to relax to relieve stress which causes lots and lots of
problem with consequent unpleasantness
•
LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST - UNDERSTAND PEOPLE AND THEIR VALUE TO REDUCE FRICTION AMONGST OURSELVES TO LEAD A LIFE WHICH JUSTIFIES THE VARIOUS ROLES YOU DAWN IN YOUR LIFE LIKE WARDS, PARENTS, BROTHERS, SISTERS ETC