I have closely observed how different the European and American people live their life as compared to Indian counterparts. The reasons behind the differences could be varied.
They enjoy the freedom in real sense. Their minds and thoughts are far freer than us. Their thinking window is broader than us. We are bound by many good and bad things; we fear to speak, we fear to do various things, like "What will people think if I do like this", "Oh that's too far from my reach”, “that’s so stupid of me to have said like that”. Our people too respond in similar manner, “he is an idiot, he doesn’t know how to talk”, “he is mad”, “he is a hypocrite” and bla bla bla.
They talk about ideas and events. We talk about people, gestures and their ways of living and some imaginary things, which we call dreams.
They enjoy when it is time to do so and never bother of any damn thing. We sit idle or watch an idiot box or a stupid movie and chat. They play sports till the age of 50 and go outing on weekends.
Young people enjoy the youth and remain young for a long time. Till the time we get settled with substantial income source and spouse, we miss the youth and till we begin to enjoy, the young age would have passed by. That means from childhood we directly enter the adult hood and we miss the youth age completely.
They spend more and save less; and enjoy the real financial freedom; we spend less to save more, as we realize the money would be required for future. They think money is for them; we think that we are for money.
They sit and only work in the office time, and rest of the time they are somewhere else away from work. We enjoy while we work and waste lot of time; furthermore we end up sitting day and night to finish the work.
Not all things are good in them. Such as;
They need to take an appointment from parents to have dinner with them. They are far away from each other as a society. They need to go to pubs to find a girlfriend and live a very short marital life. Marriages end in abut seven years anyway, hence no need to spend more on the event. When they grow young, they abandon their parents and in the old age parents end up in old age house. Respect for elders is not there. They live only by the principles governing state laws, which is a religion for them, as they don’t follow the so called religions.
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Many things mentioned are true. However I object one statement: "We enjoy while we work and waste lot of time".
When we enjoy the work, how can it be called as a waste? However, next half of sentence is quite true. Sitting up late for work is a waste for me. We never enjoy life in true sense and are always after the work deadlines and hence miss the real plot of happy life.
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