This week I received a supplement
on orthopedics along with ‘the week’ magazine and it reveals many a causes and
treatment for joint pains and knee replacement and one of the reason that
doctor’s point out make me feel hit the nail on the head. Apart the active
lifestyle and life expectancy, fall of joint family has been noticed by the
doctors for the increase of joint pain, where one remain to take care of things
independently.
I wonder how true the joints has
been an important part in our lives to make a move and it should remain forever
in motion with emotional cord chained within near and dear ones in family. I
truly acknowledge the doctor’s perspective on joint family and I have a reason too
to come to an agreement and the supplement came on time in my hand when I could
feel the pain (not at the knee) of disjoint at heart.
I have experience on living as a
joint family during my childhood and those days were never been same again and
we were accompanying my uncle’s family (family of dad’s bro) and grandmother
then. In the 1bhk house of own, we divided the huge kitchen with a barrier to
make it as a bedroom for my uncle family and the arrival of aunt was very
helpful at mom in sharing the household chores and taking care of us as kids.
Later my cousin born, we are
forced to shift to ground floor of the house to give more space for them and
even then we were like live together at through and practice and no event were
celebrated at parted. There were some renovation and rebuilding take place at
house in later days and we still continued to support each other at despite
desperate and share common festivals and celebration and even after we shifted
the location for my comfort my mind kept joint with them.
First time I feel the pain more
in lately when they decided to go on individual basis on taking the custom related
to Deepavali and for me the matter is not the custom or ritual related, which I
don’t have faith but sharing the festival spirit and happiness. I believe the
festivals are created for get together people and sharing the moment of
happiness and love, but their decision to disjoint at traditional level makes
me feel despair and anguish.
The sharing means not only about happiness
or celebration but also involves helping each other when it comes to work or
preparation of stuffs; and in a joint family there’s much chance for such
tendency and if one wasn’t well the other take care to give rest for another to
quick recovery. This is the natural state of a joint family and during this
festival season we really miss the helping hands from our aunt, and mom solely had
to prepare the Deepavali ‘sweet and snacks’ to share with relatives and neighbors.
I always wish for a joint family
and it has a lot of positive aspects on life and the main reason was sharing
and it may sound selfish if I say that a person with disability or old age, the
joint family becomes a great backbone for their survey in case our parents or
the children of old age find stubborn or struck with other chores. The joint
family is one of a dream that often haunt me into the thoughts and I know it is
impossible perhaps there is only way of disjoining families these day, I hope the
best gift that life gives for us is the joint family – where there’s lack or
less joint pains.
