Chosen Paths

by Aayushi Laddha and Shreya Deshpande by Shatakshi Gawade
Mar 19, 2020  https://www.ecological-society.com/post/nisargayan-the-school-of-nature-and-happiness

.. In India, close to 82% people suffer from stress on account of work, health and finance-related concerns. A recent meta-analysis indicated that approximately five million deaths worldwide are attributable to mood and anxiety disorders each year, along with increase in suicides, especially under toxic work environments. And fast lives which we need to run away from by taking frequent vacations...

The difference between the availability of technology and the development capacity of the mind leads to stress! We can see more cases of mental health patients in highly developed countries where their reliance on technology is more, as against less developed nations where manpower is still the primary source of labor. Consider this -- gadgets are supposed to make our life easier, but our lives have become more complex. Why is that? And doesn’t technology impose as many problems as it solves?..

.. entire system can work is that we consider the well-being of a higher system while making independent decisions at each level of the system. Does a person behave in a way which is beneficial towards his family? Does a community behave in a way which is beneficial for the nation? And do the nations behave in a way that is beneficial towards the well-being of our planet?..  we can take a top-down approach in which we hope that the nation would change its philosophy. Or we can take a bottom-up approach, where we as individuals change our philosophy and lifestyle.