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Nuclear families - good or bad?
As my mother often told me the concept of a joint family and its pros and cons during my childhood, I always wanted to live in a nuclear family.
I grew up in a nuclear family as I entered my teens along with my 2 other siblings. Mom being a housewife and Dad being the only bread earner. We had a decent life with a gardener, cook, maid, car and other amenities. All the 3 of us are professional educated and were meritorious students. We were always busy with our academics and ranks that we hardly bothered about investing our time in developing friends or interpersonal relations or any sort of group dynamics. This continued for more than a decade and as children we never realised what we have lost.
All of us eventually got married and settled in great careers. As we wished, 3 of us got into 3 different nuclear families. Today after almost 3 decades of my life, I feel I have missed out on something important. The concept of a social life which humans strive for.
I have reached to almost the highest peak of my Career with a fat pay. I have a lovely family, but I lack something. I am not alone, but I am always lonely. Did I really succeed in life? Is Career, Position, Name and Fame are the only one that account for success in life?
I dont think so. Its the emotional support we gain in bits and bytes from the smaller units of different family members of our extended families in different parts of the world. Everyone is important in different doses.
Grass is always greener on the other side. I really dont know how the joint families succeed, but definitely in my case I am drenched out of not much emotional support being in a nuclear family from the past 3 decades!!!!
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