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Best of myself - 1

....... Myself and the best part of it was that I was able to start off my professional career with an emotional and not just physical presence or contact in the upkeep of our ancestral village home with orchard plantations. This was possible because our family during my graduation had already shifted from Navi Mumbai to our ancestral village home post my father’s retirement. To be more frank this emotional contact had evolved through a consistent one month visit albeit yearly to our village home when summer vacations would be declared in our school and also in college. I think this constant yearly touch with a natural orchard environment of around five guntas in our village home consisting of the old varieties of coconut, betel nut plantations.... growing to immense heights unlike the new varieties that do not grow more than three to four metres in height was surely an ancestral treat unlike many of my then not so lucky friends who would talk on spending their vacations in rented/hired rooms at hill stations or spend vacations on a week/fortnight tour to their own native village. 

The outcome learnt could be stated; that instead of owning more than one property or house in a urban or a metropolitan city for the sole purpose of effecting monetary gains, if it was possible to have and manage a second home in a rural village say a farm house or possible to manage upkeep of such ancestral home in the rural village then any generation of a family could benefit from the same either through a new career prospect in ancestral but modern farming, orchard management, etc. or in the event of a temporary lay-off to achieve a healthy continuity in professional resume updation when awaiting for suitable future employment. Also a consistent maybe yearly touch with green environment seems much more important than any other urgent need of today.   

    

However, the prospect of making a career in a rural environment for a young budding engineer seems quiet apprehensive as was with myself. A dream job, lucrative pay packages, metropolitan lifestyle, etc. beckons every young person to the city. What modern day comforts, if that would be the sought after factor for migration of youth towards cities, would not be got in a rural set up. In this age of internet and online marketing, literally anything could be availed in a village as in the metropolitan cities unlike the scenario two decades ago. The call for ‘To return back to our Roots’ by many a leaders of the world then and now would therefore be more apt in today’s modern age as was called for long time back by our conscience but not heard by ourselves.

The catch here of immense importance to me would be the inability of many a adults who seemingly are still blinded by the magical illusion conferred by the metropolitan cities and urban areas upon them. If that is so, then what could one expect from adolescents? How could they learn to listen to their conscience when their peers and elders have not been able to do so? After all their vibrant age deafens the voice within and they follow the ways of the visible world - follow the herd. 

That is all for today’s post. It seems well adapted for me at least! Anyone near to me?

More about myself in the next post......................................