Importance of Family
Meaning of Family
Everyone might have a different meaning of family, in general most of them would be agree that family is a group of individuals which share a bond of love, care, trust and mutual feelings of welfare of each other. Behind every success we achieve or have achieved, there is a great role of our family. When we started walking, it was our parents, grandfather, some relative, who hold our finger too took us to the school, our foods, our school and every expense they bear for us. When we fell ill, they were worried about our health and passed many sleepless nights, took care of us in all the hard times so we may recover soon and sleep peacefully.
Due to their
love. support, hard work and prayers, today we have achieved many
accomplishments smalls or big. God has not blessed humans but when we see in
nature, we find how God has put love in the hearts of animals, a female monkey and
dog, keep even their dead babies attached to themselves unless the dead body of
the baby rot and smell very bad. The bond of connection is present in the
other living creatures. Even many animals,
birds live in communities, how a mother bird bring food to feed their babies
which do not have got feathers on their bodies. Ants and Bees like insects too
have a very strong social structure. Many researches have proven that many animals, birds, insect like ant and bees live in
communities and have their social framework. One may also say that family is an emotion
feeling of belonging and love not to possess by humans alone but other fellow
creatures to possess this noble feeling without human conscience.
Family in scriptures:
When we look into the scriptures, we find the family
is created by the God himself, one family in which we are born was not our
choice. One is the family that we choose to be this worldly family the people
we associate with friends, life partner and the group we are heartly attached
like alma-matter, workplace etc. One such beautiful Shlok is here.
The World Is a
Family
One Is a Relative, The Other Stranger,
Say the Small Minded.
The Entire World Is a Family,
Live the Magnanimous….
—Maha Upanishad 6.71
The similar message of human being
to be a family is given in The Noble Quran, that humankind is born from a
single parent, one female and male so, they are brother of each other. The same
message can be also found in The Holy Bible.
“O mankind, indeed, we have created
you from a male and female and made you people and tribes that you may know
each other…”
Quran (14:13)
We can find numerous message and
values in the scriptures, those values that are required to bind a family. He
would be a very unfortunate person in this world who do not have a family to
love him.
Whenever we read the message of
wisdom our heart recognizes it as we knew it before.
“A wise son
brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.” (Proverbs
15:20)
“Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your
father and mother” (this is from the commandments of promise) (Ephesians 6:1,
ESV)
AUSTAA Family
In the year 2020, when the world was
facing Covid 19, It was then some of my senior introduce me to the AUSTAA
family. There I saw the collective effort of many of our AU alumni and
classmates to make the data base of different region of India to provide the
basic helpline numbers and useful information at the hand. They helped many students
of AU as well as other universities in the preparation of many exams like JAM,
ISS, RBI etc.
All these
selfless service for the betterment of the Allahabad University student of
statistics department and giving back to their alma mater and country that is
also an example of a family, The AUSTAA family. Its network contains many
professors, data scientist, ISS, IAS, IPS and many other dignitary officers and professionals.
When I got
the admission at IIT Kanpur, In the first week away from my home, taking a
little time to adapt the new environment. I shared this news with my sister
Sumbul only and as this news reached to Dr Niyati Joshi Sir, Himanshu Sir,
Nausheen Appi and few others all of them personally talk to me over the phone and provided me the necessary motivation and support, that made me feel
like a family which care for each other well being.
Effect on health
Humans are social creature, and they
cannot leave in isolation. Isolation may lead to severe mental health problems
like stress, depression, anxiety and other health problems. Lost wealth can be
regained, health may be recovered if someone is mentally strong but the one who
has lost his peace of mind has lost everything.
People who were once victim of child abuse, unfortunate to get love and
care of a family. They grow with various mental problems and some turn into
anti-social individual. It is the support of family and friends that gives us
strength at the low time and fight all the odds, during stress and health
issues.
These days where we see the trend of single family
is prevalent, the children do not get proper care and emotional support as both parents work or the children feel the need some extra attention earlier,
they get from their grandparents and other members of their joint family. In the joint family, where a child use to get
the love of their grandparents showed overall better growth and parents face
lesser problem in nurturing children. It is hard to believe that nearly 138
million elderly people living in India of which 18 million senior citizens are
homeless as they are abandoned by their families, and they don’t have any means
of income and financial support.
Conclusion
The family has a great importance for every individual it cannot be denied. We should try to spend at least few hours of a day with family so we may share our thoughts, to give and take support in the family to those who need and take when we required. There are several ways to stay connected with the family.
