EAST WEST LOVE STORY
By Lt Col Prakash T Joshi
How easy it is to say “I love you”,but do both the parties understand the meaning, well I am talking about young adults of either gender and meaning no offence intended for aberrations intended or unintended. Psychology says that love in such cases has three aspects to it First is passion , which is natural with coming of age, second is intimacy which is more of accepting each other living together with individual strong and weak points and finding a happy balance and tolerance to live happily ever after till death does them apart. Third is commitment to each other and mutual inter dependency in times good and bad and in joy and sorrow.
Eastern world lays emphasis on the aspect of commitment and hopes that passion and intimacy aspects will match or will result as a part of mutual adjustment. Thus the social practice as in India of arranges marriages which are often decided by parents and families with the couple hardly getting any opportunity and time to interact or explore the first two aspects of passion and intimacy.
Western concept of dating and living together lays emphasis on the first two aspects of passion and intimacy before finally deciding to tie the knot and get married.
Both the systems seem to work in many cases but have exceptions in both the systems. Finding common grounds and a balanced middle path is difficult and works in a few cases .Belief in marriage as an institution of social relevance for human beings seems to find a general acceptance too. Given what can be controlled and managed by human beings the evolved system has endured test of times and does not seem to face any serious challenges but improvements and better balanced middle path between the two one can hope for.
Lt. Col. Prakash T. Joshi
Email address- prakunda@gmail.com
About Me
I am a retired army Lt.Col. 24 years as an Infantry officer.
Further, I have an MBA from a unique and prestigious - Institute of Rural Management,Anand,(IRMA), in Finance and HRD.
Subsequent to my army life, I have had a successful second career in logistics management, consulting and jewelry retail for over twenty years. Recently migrated to the USA to be closer to our children and grand children.
I achieved my own financial freedom in 2013 and have a desire to share my methods and experiences to enrich other peoples’ lives and thus make a socially useful contribution
My request note:
Dear Brigadier Dhand Sir,
Above is a small piece I wrote recently and planning to write a sequel to it soon too. I have a request to make I have my web site www.moneymonk.me and I also write a weekly blog :
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On the money matters and mail to all a flier like this recent one
“ON SIP
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Both the efforts have got good feedback and response. Method adopted is time consuming being personal interaction and what a enrolled person pays as “Guru Dakshana” is decided by him/her per session and never questioned as I believe that any thing offered free is not valued. Presently surplus generated is given to charities but I have plans to scale it up and make it a not for profit activity like a NGO.
I wish that more of those serving and ex servicemen benefit from my experience and knowledge, which will make a difference to their lives. Towards this my request is -
- Can you please find time and go through the web site as also 18 blogs on different topics written so far.
- If convinced of my intention and its utility to services community please help me reach out to our community.
With regards and best wishes
Lt Col Prakash T Joshi
Moneymonk
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