Few readings will have everlasting impact .. It might depend on the time of learning and largely on how it is taught... I always vividly remember my Sociology Professor Dr Ratna naidu who was pretty tough in her way of teaching and ofcourse behavior too.. Many times i wonder how my life would have been if she were not my teacher.. Till graduation, i was doing science and suddenly i had taken social sciences and the understanding and the method of studying was so totally different... She gave us a tough book titled , "Mind Self and society" to read, By George Herbert Meed... and also couple of other incisive articles , which according to her would open give the insights and open the window of thr world...
Indeed it did and one of the articles i remember from those days in 1988 was Urbanism as a way of life , by Louis worth... Of many things that he propounded, he talked about the concept of Familiar strangers.. The idiom attracted me and it seemed like i understood what it meant.... Familiar people becoming strangers ... Was not such a rampant phenomenon then but is the prominent reality today... Not knowing ones neighbour is not a sin or a rarity anymore but .... familiarity can turn into anyways and achieve any meaning is the in thing.... Once you are familiar, it can become a friendship or the person can become or seen unknown... this way there is no commitment on the relationship...
The worst part can be that, people avoid people easily and pretend not to know.... Sometimes it makes me wonder if the world is so small that people want to be on their own or is it that most people are insecured and hence they want to hide from people... Do people hide, do people want to be left alone, or is the world so big that each wants to have their own private expereince? Many articles are written, many books published, many theories propounded about why people are lonely and why many choose to remain alone... It gets into psychology, sociology and all related areas but how some people perceive realities much much before like louis wirth... This also means that we choose to see what we want to see and it only takes a detached genius to see the world objectively ....... But all said and done, one has to keep bonding and not stay aloof how ever technology one has at the doorstep..
One of the easiest way to stay that we care is to wait for few seconds and not close the lift door when some one is locking their home and say just acknowledge the human presence in the lift, with the security guard, office boy and everyone we know and dont know but share the similar space on the earth and be freindly people and not familiar strangers
Indeed it did and one of the articles i remember from those days in 1988 was Urbanism as a way of life , by Louis worth... Of many things that he propounded, he talked about the concept of Familiar strangers.. The idiom attracted me and it seemed like i understood what it meant.... Familiar people becoming strangers ... Was not such a rampant phenomenon then but is the prominent reality today... Not knowing ones neighbour is not a sin or a rarity anymore but .... familiarity can turn into anyways and achieve any meaning is the in thing.... Once you are familiar, it can become a friendship or the person can become or seen unknown... this way there is no commitment on the relationship...
The worst part can be that, people avoid people easily and pretend not to know.... Sometimes it makes me wonder if the world is so small that people want to be on their own or is it that most people are insecured and hence they want to hide from people... Do people hide, do people want to be left alone, or is the world so big that each wants to have their own private expereince? Many articles are written, many books published, many theories propounded about why people are lonely and why many choose to remain alone... It gets into psychology, sociology and all related areas but how some people perceive realities much much before like louis wirth... This also means that we choose to see what we want to see and it only takes a detached genius to see the world objectively ....... But all said and done, one has to keep bonding and not stay aloof how ever technology one has at the doorstep..
One of the easiest way to stay that we care is to wait for few seconds and not close the lift door when some one is locking their home and say just acknowledge the human presence in the lift, with the security guard, office boy and everyone we know and dont know but share the similar space on the earth and be freindly people and not familiar strangers
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