End of Typical Indian Family Bonding and Love

Suddenly I find a our neighborhood level and family level conversation dying. For example, earlier in a typical marriage function, the entire family used to join hands to conduct it. Today, it’s the entire task is outsourced to an event management company. So, what’s the role of we relatives or neighbors? We just walk in at the alloted time, shake hands, smile randomly and have lunch or dinner. Where is the connection? What kind of involvement you have towards the newly married couple? What did you do together to make it happen?

Well, there are reasons why this new arrangement has set in. It’s the lack our life, the new busy life, etc. But, when we go ahead with the new set of things, are we really doing justice to the event? Are we building the bold or loosing it?

Fit in or Stand out

Once I went for a marriage function in Kodugu. It was my wife’s best friend’s brother was getting married. As a person interested in functions, festivals, etc, I look this as a chance to witness marriage and the Coorgi’s culture. One thing which I saw on the previous day was this – the ladies in the family has joined together to make preparation to make the food, etc. It was nice to see the family boding, doing task in unison.

What’s the coorgi lessons for rest of us?
Next time, you have a wedding in your family, thing of taking a part of the task with the family. It could be a small task, but make sure you find people within your family to execute it. It could be the job of serving or it would the preparation of a dessert for the reception.

The whole idea of such a joint task is get involvement or bonding within family memember. I hope you get the idea!

Try it out!