Monotonous Life, Emotional Crisis and Human Happiness

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Today I've come up with something thoughtful and worth noting post. Human beings are considered as social animals. But humans have one more thing, which is intelligence. Intelligence is measured by quotients. There are some quotients to measure various human abilities like Emotional Quotient (EQ), Intelligence Quotient (IQ), etc. Humans can express their feeling and emotions they can laugh, cry, be sad, be happy and amazed. Some of them can be put into words and shared through language but some cannot be. In the 21st century how is the interaction and general behavior of humans ? Are they happy ? Really ?

No words, no language can give justice to the expression of human emotions and feelings. Even if humans make conscious attempts to put them into words but somewhere and somehow a kind of lack of words is created. Technology has made people silent. Earlier there was traditional landline phone, which were better than the smartphones. Various chatting applications replaced phone calls into messages and chats. Earlier there were commas, full-stop and brackets to display facial emotions, but time after time, technology has replaced them with cartoons, stickers, GIFs (Graphical Interchange Format) and mascots with fancy yellow color. It seems that human's happiness and joy has been minimized to these emoticons and emojis. We hardly look at one another's face and barely do eye contact. Negotiation skills and communication skills are getting degraded. Our sense of expressing emotions and feelings has become rusty.

Have you ever listened to the IVRS - (Interactive Voice Response System) on calling carefully ? If observed, you might be knowing that, the system ask us to press specific keys to reach out to our queries. Though the speaker's voice is pre-recorded with that much care, that not a single pitch and tone of voice gets the emotional touch. This senseless, feeling less voice of IVRS, is the marker for our day to day behavior also. We are gradually forgetting many human values. We have forgotten showing the emotions at the right time and right place.

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Here a short story flashes in memory. A story about a boy who develops friendship with a lady who works at information center. Click here to read the full story. As this story emotionally connects us with the characters, can we find anything which is more applicable in our present time ? How many hours do we spend with our family members ? How do we talk to our parents ? What's the best thing we can remember from our childhood ? Do we really think that we are stress free ?

In this time, where nuclear family concept is in top trend, one will find that children are in the most miserable situations. Inflation rate, high-pricing, and many other economic conditions are such that husband and wife both have to work for earnings. Grandfather and grandmother were the best friends of children, but this gap is now getting bigger and bigger. Our prime objective of earning money is not to get happiness and peace but is to enjoy the maximum materialistic wealth at the cost of our health. We eat food from costly restaurants and crave for very high profile luxurious life style. This greed and craving for material things upset us in such smooth way, that we can't even sense that what's happening to us. We often find ourselves very down, tired and frustrated. In such state of mind we seek for companionship of certain people to whom we can share our sorrows and recover from many emotional crisis. These companions are none other than our family members and friends. But unfortunately, the hovering aura of social media and virtual world eats all of our time and separates us from our near and dear ones. This scarcity of dialogue is continuously increasing. Our way of communication has also become very robotic and feeling less, just like that person who speaks in IVRS phone call.

As the time passes, life is becoming more and more monotonous. We wake up, get to work, meet people, make professional attitudes, make our own choices (which is good thing though) but without thinking about others, find the escape from the office work and go to party, watch movies and do what not... But do we really find the innate happiness in doing all these things ? Let's take a wider view. In majority of the cities there are anger management classes going on. Stress management workshops are being organized and many other things regarding the betterment of our mindfulness are taking place.

This shows that something needs to be changed. Empathetic approach is necessary to understand this situation thoroughly. If something can be thought and implemented with right intention, then nothing can stop us to become best of ourselves.

Be Thoughtful.
Thank You !