“WOW” What a wonderful car! What a beautiful Bungalow!
Papa hum aisa ghar kab lenge?
These all are the questions of a kid belonging to middle class. The 5 year kid dreams of all such things; not only the kid but possibly his father too.
The stubborn feels that when he grows up he will also own these materialistic possessions. As the kid has not gained a sense of maturity and wisdom, he does not know the bitter reality behind this fact. And what could be the answer expected from a helpless father. He just smiles at the question of his kid and reply “Beta ek din Zaroor”. In fact he himself does not know “WHEN”.
Today a middle class person has a bunch of questions like this but the answers are unrevealed to him also. What all he has is a “HOPE”. A hope to do something, a hope to make his family and livelihood go better, a hope to grow, a hope to flow. This is only the hope which supports the middle class as strength and brings a ray of positive vibe in their life. The day this hope ends, will be the day all positivity will end and sometimes ending the life of the person itself.
Now days, a middle class man can be compared to a sandwich who is neither counted in a lower class nor can live his life like a higher one. But stuck like the filling of a sandwich from which he can’t come out.
Inflation is at its peak. But who bothers about inflation. Is it a higher class who bothers? “NO”. Is it a lower class that bothers? “Absolutely NO”. It is the middle class who really brudes into the matter. Why would higher class look into when they have such a huge amount to waste. Imagine taking a bucket out full of water from the ocean. Will it affect the ocean? Obviously NO.
And the lower ones, they earn their livelihood on daily wages, what could inflation affect their living then.
It is the middle class man who gets grinded between the whole scenarios. His mental strength is challenged.
On the one side, is his family’s need and on the other is his desire to increase his standard, his repo factor. The condition goes worse if there is only one person who earns in the family. The popular words that one could get to hear are “Log kya kahenge?” It is the fear of society that they are dragged towards so called Show Off.
Some people timely come out of the show off pit while the other ones get deep inside. As a result sometimes lead to another mental state “Depression”.
When they could not do something big, they start believing that now their son or daughter will make up for them. Their heirs will do which they couldn’t. Some succeed while some are on the same track.
Today newspapers are occupied with the news of suicides and other crimes…And the reality behind these is the same…
“Situation is not going to change so why can’t we change ourselves”
“Hope is the solution for everything.” Don’t let your hope go down.
