I wonder, what makes a perfect family? Pick your choices:
A couple
A man and a woman
A son
A daughter
A son and a daughter
Two sons
Two daughters
Three or more kids (any combination of sons and daughters)
An apartment
A house
A wealthy father
A working mother
A non-working mother
Home made dinner every night
Family dinners
Smiling members
"Thanks you" and "Please" keywords
A couple family members fluent with musical instrument
A family spiritual ritual
Guests over every weekend
Outings every weekend
Active family with lots of planned outdoors and regular sporting activities
All homework done in the first hour after school
Family vacations twice a year
Friends and family reunion every other year
May be add a few other lines, pick other choices. Done?
Now, I think, socially speaking, most combination of the above choices make a perfect family. Parents, kids, shelter, sport, music, spirituality. Any body cares about love?
Socially speaking, I don't think so. I find that the society is a very narrow minded and cruel judge when looking at itself. To the society there are only two categories and it judges every thing in either of the two: good or bad. A good society is consisted of good families in which there are kids who are educated and who are attended to by participating in different activities and socially grown by visiting families and friends. At this point the society closes its eyes, doesn't want to know any more. Good is good. Any thing that is not good is bad. There are no shades of good or shades of bad.
Now, what is love really?
To me, it is all about look, how you look at each other and what you see when you look.
Society doesn't like to look at its eyes. Society just likes to feel complete and for its completeness there are no eyes required, just smiles.
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Interesting! I think society only evaluate what is measureable. Those items you mentined first can be seen and evaluated very easily while the depth of everyone life, love and these kinds of concepts cannot be measured by society at least in a very first attempt.
ReplyDeleteEverybody knows that part only for himself/herself. Then priority also comes to the field, are those items (maybe obvious signs of completeness) have a higher priority or love and inside feelings....? I guess different answers for different people and in different stages of life.
Yeah interesting analysis; I think I agree w obviousness of measurable outcomes vs. unmeasurables like happiness!
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