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Youth getting astray by modern materialistic approach
It is quite true materialism has rotted many systems in the society. Nothing has been spared! Materialism has become the top priority of people. The youth have been affected the most by this materialism.
For material gains the youth is going astray. They don’t have any scruples when it comes to securing material gains. Many of them don’t shudder doing criminal activities. Drugs, smuggling, anti-social and anti-national activities don’t affect their conscience.
What has happened to human values? The morals have gone so down that prime purpose of man's existence is pecuniary pursuits. Everyone appears to have stooped so low that he/she sacrifices even the most sacred relations for the sake of material gains. Gone are the days of brotherly, sisterly, fatherly, or motherly love. Man can break all ties of love and respect for the sake of money and property! All ethics, etiquette, decency, and decorum have gone to dogs. Life has become merely trade, commerce and profit earning.
The elders must try to revive spiritual values and check this alarming contagion of materialism.
Well before you start saying a No to it lets just think about it, can you leave your Smartphone for even a day, and particularly for boys if your bike gets a nasty scratch, would you be as cool and calm as the Black Knight from the Monty python and a holy grail saying “Tis but a scratch”. I guess it a big no. Well then there you go, you are a materialist, the definition of being a materialistic is pretty simple, when you start yourself connecting too deeply with the materials and when it becomes an inseparable part of your life, you become a materialist, for whom the ‘things’ matter more than anything. Sure you will say it is not like that, people also matter to you, emotions also matter, well then dare to o this experiment, for just one week stop the use of internet altogether, no FB, no twitter no whatsapp. Stop using bike to go anywhere, you want to talk to a friend, walk to his house and talk face to face, stop using anything which you think right now you can’t live without, and you will get the point of what I am conveying here.