Remember, how we craved for connecting others at the onset of COVID Pandemic? While confined to, within four walls at home, how miserable we had felt? How then, all social media turned active platforms with people buzzing, unlike before?
Why, was it so? When we were surrounded with all latest technological tools, which brought us comfort of modern life. Why still we felt gloomy and unhappy? Ideally, as assumed about technological benefits, we were ought to be otherwise. Technologies can not become the wholesome means of our survival which we had realized during pandemic.
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In Person Interactions Were Banned During COVID Pandemic.Was Human Survival Possible Without It? |
However, till two years back, as autumn arrived, India zoomed with many festivals and events. For, events, 'Celebrations for all', such as Durga Puja; Worshiping the Goddess of Power, then Deepawali; the Festival of Light, and Bhai Dooj; Brothers' Day, many more had been a living tradition in the country since time immemorial. People came together to organize, connect and interact. Rich Indian tradition of celebrations founded with genuine scientific reasons of 'Cause & Effect', not only brought people together; but also strengthened human bonding, during celebrations when people met and interacted. Face to face interactions was the cause and human survival was its consequences.
At the advent of AI, Space Science Culture, Fibernet Connectivity, we tended to forget significance and the roles played by social and cultural celebrations in human life. Very few events were organized across India in the last two years because of COVID-19 pandemic. Events turned from celebrations for all to celebrations for few. Such situations hampered our spirit, had least scope for face to face interactions. Whereas, the proven fact about, 'Face to face Interaction', so crucial for psychological well being and survival of human species, had been forcibly deterred.
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Human Bonding Is The Essence Of Survival |
How much technologically advanced we may consider ourselves , we need to understand the factors, which contribute towards positive psychological growth of human mind and its wellbeing. For human species, face to face interactions is the prime essence of its survival, moreover no means so far invented can replace the potential that human interactions hold, helping in creating human bonding.
Moreover, social media platforms can not be alternatives at par which can replace the social events and celebrations, where ample scope for face to face interactions possible naturally. Even though we agree these platforms help in professional communications ,but to some extent. At the fag end of the day sooner we accept the fact that social platforms fail to bring out human bonding: better will be our chances to realize the factors which contribute in bonding and preventing our species from becoming another endangered species of this earth. Therefore, celebrations are the true sites for us, human beings to bond and survive.
5 Factors Of Survival
# Being a part of celebrations
# Participating in face to face interactions
# Building identity, trust and affection through interactions
# Creating human bonding through interactions
# Understanding the roles of face to face interactions for survival of human species
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