Individual privacy is important!

Privacy in Indian families.

Sreevidya. A

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I wish to write this because this is the common thing which we don’t like to share. We don’t get the privacy we need in Indian families. Nobody could help that. You don’t get that especially when you are growing. You would get to realize that amazing fact when you are so much under stress. Yes, your brain works more effectively when you are under pressure but we can’t admit it because we don’t realize it. When you are alone, you would recall all the mistakes and feel regret later. Once you are into your privacy mode, you are happy, you are intelligent, you are open-minded. You set yourself free to the world. You take time before accepting something. Only at that particular time, you think for and about yourself. That’s the best part of being alone which comes from privacy again.

Being involved in so many tags such as relationships, emotions, etc don’t get the best in you. In fact, we resist and do not encourage good decisions. Our mind doesn’t accept the one that our heart wants. Our hearts won’t split the one that our surroundings need. Our surroundings don’t encourage what our soul tells. This might be tricky but it’s true.

Coming to privacy in Indian families, it’s just the word we use officially in front of everyone but we don’t give it. Being liberal is a big task. We have so much trust in our kids as they can’t even go to school alone. We don’t discuss anything with the kids yet we expect them to be geniuses having no doubts.

Coming to us! the kids, we don’t discuss so many things with parents because of the weird feeling only we have (as Indians) is fear cum respect. They don’t even tend to discuss which is the funny part (weird smile). Privacy helps people’s mental behaviour. Here they don’t need all this because they grow automatically as a genius without any doubts, without any questions, without any experiences. Entirely it is a sarcastically convincing process that goes on here. The funniest thing in almost every family.

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Sreevidya. A

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