Always in the society, some are not ready to accept the past glory and such people are not contented with their present state and long for an elusive 'future happiness'. Mostly people live either in their past -thinking of their greatness or meanness or dreaming of their oncoming time. Man has to walk today with the strength he gathered yesterday and a hope for tomorrow.
Just three decades ago and still in millions of homes in the rural parts the things they required were absolutely minimal. Today everything is overflowing. Everywhere goods and offer of services. When ever people go out they return with some thing that they call this exercise as 'shopping'. This shipping exercise everyday results in glut and many of our homes are full with these white goods and light goods and men are left with no space to live in. At least when the guests arrive , there is no space inside and we have to come out and sleep on the corridors or on the terrace.
But in the yesteryear's, there were minimum vessels in the kitchen and in the living rooms. Today the things that are moving us out occupy big spaces and they are permanent. Even before we enter they find a nice place for them and they settle down there permanently without any nonchalance. These heartless plastic devils are the refrigerator, the coolers, the AC'S, the TV's and audio systems, the cleaners, the big and small chairs and sofas, the systems of small and big, the washing machines and the vessel cleaners and the water purifiers, the two and four wheeled monsters and so on. Not one requires space for this plastic and electronic guests, all these need maintenance and rising bills of energy. Forget the EMI's ( Equated Monthly Installments) one has to pay every month, throughout life.
When we come to the dresses, they occupy a major portion of our homes. We buy and buy and stop not till the plastic cards express their impatience. The similar is the story of shoes. Every thing is colorful and they are attractive. Even dirt can be packed in attractive containers and be sold off.
It is time we take a leaf from our past. A few vessels and containers in the kitchen and two or three sets of dresses. A small environment friendly hut. Limited goods, food and unlimited happiness. The big can't always ensure happiness. The house of Ambani's ( a 27 storey palace in Mumbai, residential building) or the Buckingham or the Viceroy's house in New Delhi ( today's Presidential quarters) are not models for the common man. Simple is beautiful. Surplus and shortage - both are painful.
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