Remembering The True Bonds

In today’s fast life, that is full of depression, poverty and dissatisfaction, we all lose our temperamenton one occasion or the other. In our current economic structure, where people are busy earning only a day’s meal, it really gets difficult to think
about ourselves and the most loved ones around us.

Relations like our parents, spouses, children, siblings, we see them every day and talk to them but still miss the connection that makes a relation perfectly intimate and warm.I often tell to myself that today I’m going mom in kitchen so that she feels I’m
still around but somehow this today never comes.

We all have gotshort of time even when we are practically doing nothing whole day.Funny it is, but I find relations quite paper-like and face-value-based these days. What is happening to us? Have we ever thought about it?

Well, it is because our priorities have taken a 360 degree swing. Earlier there used to be a concept of afternoon tea and now it has been changed to high tea with a lot of junk food, show off and glitter.

Ironic, but true it is. Even in case of a husband wife duo, that intimacy is slowing fading away, especially in case of the working class. May be we are forgetting and subsiding our actually needs for the material needs.

Sexual And Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) is a very wide topic that covers all aspects related to the intimacy of relations. Either consciously or out of ignorance, most of us are not enjoying the best of our relations.

Lifelife Campaign Pakistan, a nationwide campaign for youth, parents and policy makers intends to raise awareness in this regard. Lifeline aims to increase the capacityand access of individuals regarding sexual and reproductive health.

The campaign is dedicated to bring positive change in our day to day interactions. It endorses that a healthy relation between parents, siblings and spouses is like a plant that grows to create cool shades for the coming generations.

Lifelife Campaign, for the past two years, has been making its way towards betterment by educating young parents, couples and youth. Mr. Omer Aftab, CEO for Lifeline believes that, “Relationships and intimacy go hand in hand.

It is not only about romantic relations, rather be it a friend, or a brother sister duo, we all need warmth that is now slowly drifting away from our family systems.”

In order to keep all the social groups aligned for the cause, Lifeline has recently collaborated with a leading Islamic religious sect, JamiaNaeemia Lahore, for conducting a reference- based study related to reproductive health of general masses and youth.

Religious scholars from this group were consulted about the issues pertaining one’s personal life and interaction with close relatives. They were of the view that every religion teaches and spreads away the message of peace and love.

Giving respect brings respect. Sharing ourselves with our loved ones increases the level of understanding, especially in case of romantic interactions. As per the teachings of Quran and Sunnah, we are all advised to live with a balance.

We have become aloof from our family structure that is a big reason for the increase in frustration and impatience. We need to come closer to ourselves and to the people very close to us.

A Senior Consultant at Pakistan Institute of Mental health (Identity reserved)comments that, “It’s not about facts, Intimacy is about sharing feelings”. Here at the close of the 20th century we have the luxury of living in splendid isolation.

We need to redevelop our bonding, not only for us but also for the sake of youth that is coming ahead. Since we have become prone to our families only. We try our best to ignore our relatives on eid and other occasions now, we spend time texting to our acquaintances
rather than talking in person with our family members.

All these new day trends are freezing the minds of our coming generations. They need to understand what their rights, how they need to behave during puberty and what peer pressure really means andthis all will happen only when their parents and siblings
are at ease to talk and share.

Warmth in interpersonal relations is intimacy and it is all about understanding and prioritizing one’s needs and desires.

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Posted by Rana Nasir Ghafoor on Jan 12 2013. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan, Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry