Thinking
mind is always critical for some issues or topic and now it’s back to work
again when I came in front of a situation. All the people have different ways
for greeting each other and that is something usual, but I didn’t know that
this would become a carrier for me to come up with some of my ideas on the so
called “NORMS”. Before few days I just greeted a friend of mine by just giving
a light hit on the head and a blink of eyes, and this was something normal to
me as that was friendly and it’s not like that my friend didn’t liked that but
the thing was the other people who was standing along with my friend asked that
“is this the way that a “Gujju” boy greet the people?” I did not know about
this question as came to know about this later on when my friend told me. My
friend didn’t take this thing seriously but just shared this comment with me,
so this made me to think that why do people justify the things by the societal
norms?
I agree
that there must be certain norms for the society to work things well but
sometimes I do feel that these norms are taking away my Fundamental Rights… J There are some things like good and
bad, but this can be different for the people in different situation. Something’s
which is good for me is not necessary that it would be good for all and vice
versa. But there is a possibility that people’s reaction on any situation can
be changed depending upon the mindset or broad/narrow understandings. The
people who thought that the way of my greeting was not good that might be
because they might not be knowing about the friendship between me and my friend
or they might be more serious people J I also agree that the way I greeted
was not normal as its against the societal norms of greeting people, but I don’t
think that I must be so formal that I would greet like an official greetings.
So personally I think that these norms are sometimes too much sensitive that it
doesn’t allow people to come out of it. There can be a possibility that people
would not be following these norms but they would perform a normal role in
every aspect. I would like to stay a bit away from this Norms when am with my
friends. J
