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.