Read the following paragraph, taken from the story
. Delhi is too expensive. You know I have four children to look after now. I can’t make both ends meet with my salary. And one has to keep up one’s status. It will be a great help if I can raise some money by selling my share of the family property. I came to talk it over with you
Now, write a short essay on how to keep up family ties despite economic pressures
(You may use the hints given below).
Impact of economic pressures
Lack of time to spend with the family
Lack of love and affection
Absence of human relationships
Answers
Answer:
Nowadays life is demanding, these are the days where both parents have to earn money for the family, still, it’s not enough. The cost of living, education, lifestyle is dramatically increased in the last decade. On top of it social media influence, FOMO, ease of purchasing, the convenience of home delivery, effects of catchy advertisements and overall consumerism lures us to spend more on unnecessary stuff.
This is the generation that spends more on wants than needs. This is the generation that spends more than they earn. A typical middle-class family might consume groceries of ten thousand rupees for a whole month. But when a family goes out for a movie and a pizza place it spends 3 to 4 thousand in four hours. They buy a smartphone or an iPad of 60,000 to 80,000 rupees for the sake of showcasing the upper-middle-class lifestyle. A good phone of 10000 to 12000 will perform the same tasks but to show off or to keep up with friends and society people spend without logic.
Businesses will do their business, they will do catchy advertisements and make us follow addictive patterns. It is easy to blame them but we have to focus on ourselves too. We are part of the problem then we have to part of the solution too. The consumer, we, the people are having bad spending habits. We take credit cards and use if for unnecessary shopping of clothes, decorative items, and whatnot. Having a credit card handy is a good thing, but it should be used for emergency purposes like a medical emergency or unplanned financial need.