Present Day

Present Day.

What I see in this contemporary generation is an irony of existence. Jumbled with nature, we verify our choices, however, still stranded with our substantial contentment. Through the variety of choices of leisure, we have to pass time in but that doesn’t mean we are at liberty to be blissful in our life. In reality, the opposite might happen.

Let’s just focus on how we have so many options for these entertainments and activities with a question in mind: Why are we still less happy?

The world has to turn out to be accessible, and if exotic cuisine is what you’re looking for to pass your time, then its diversity might overwhelm you on how a single click of a button might take you through time and routes on how these foods came about. Yet with all that, the question to ponder, do we have more appetite or less?

On the strength of the above, it brings us into our second point: how equipped we can easily be through widespread knowledge? Funny enough, the more know-how we acquire the shallow our minds have become with less creativity. How many of us are ready to waste 20 years in school just to be hired with no initiative to be ingenious with a strategic plan on how to let money work for us instead of the contrary?

We are encircled with adequate expertise. For instance, if we talk about a doctor who might be well informed in their field of proficiency, then let’s look around on how the disease has overawed us with no curative drugs. The question remains: are we getting better or are we immersing ourselves into a conduit that we won’t be able to come out of?

We have a lot of sophisticated gadgets, but no happiness. A lot of excitement fencing us. Starting from those who see clubbing, drinking, and using substances as part of their amusement to those who have perceived to be Workaholic or Shopaholic as their source of tension discharging. Despite using the art of occupying ourselves and using temporary excitement as happiness, we still are left with a miserable life, a void in us that can’t be tapped.

We have a lot of interactions as well as followers on social platforms yet we don’t know who our neighbours are as well as being unsure of who is our genuine friend. Life has not only diminished in span but also value and appreciation.

Just the fact that we can brag on how we possess tall buildings with peddling treasure that we do not know how to utilize, we are still beached by the fact that we have no one who can listen to us. Enclosed around individuals who are out of character and bad humour. It should have surprised us just the idea of how transportation and technology are easier and faster, yet we still feel we have very minimum time which leaves us with a lot to do but none to achieve. 

Let’s have a discourse of how we are tangled with the incompatibility of Personality in our society. Just as we have been brainwashed to be certain with the fact that to trend is to be in a state of undress, we live in a generation where no song or movie will ever hit box office unless obscene scenes are involved. 

Flattering with a preconceived notion: don’t use your sentiment you will get hurt, use your mind to find comfort and happiness, is what we are trained to understand. And the fact that cheating on your spouse is a sign of smartness, we have been filled with fear of the word marriage while the concept of come we stay normalized. What we are left within our cohort is the word Love which is very expensive that we can’t afford. The contrast, Sex has become cheap and can be found anywhere…..

By Dr. Mohamed Bahaidar (Sociologist, Recipient of the most distinguished award in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, Author of The Hidden Self, The Point of Deflection, A Household of Bliss, Sparkling Hope, and Mirror Reflection).