Mindfulness For Modern Education
‘Success’, a potential word which is totally misunderstood. What comes in your mind when you hear this word? A huge house with thousands of amenities, luxurious car, expensive lifestyle, and lot more money can buy. In present time we evaluate success with money. More the money merrier the person is, that’s what a normal mindset has become. We seek education in various forms in order to attain success and become a subject of affordability. In simple words we desire success to be able to afford life leisure. Our idea of living is more about surviving with luxury, fighting for acquiring more land and objects that only holds monetary values.
What Has Changed?
Why are we so focused in turning ourselves in ATMs? If education system is advanced why are we not capable of utilizing it for overall betterment of man-kind. Why only a few have all the sources and luxury while rest have endless suffering and misery. Every day we hear about increasing rate of crimes, drug abuse, physical and mental assaults. Humans exhausting all possible resources of nature like precious woods, forests, killing animals turning many of them into endangered species just to make a few handbags, shoes or fur coats for themselves.
If we are so modern and well equipped and educated why are we missing the kindness and humanity which is the first lesson to be taught to every individual. These days its needed to pull out drives and rally to save animals and forests from humans. In-fact human beings are becoming threats even to each other. We are missing the real social relationships, love and humanity by par.
Mindfulness For Modern Education
We need to imbibe our education system with some core values and understand the real meaning of success. It is well quoted that, “We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us and wealth classified us”. Mindfulness has become essential more than ever to get rid of these barriers to introduce humans to humanity. To advance a scope to save what’s left with us. Let’s explore the immense capacity man-kind holds to bring a real difference make together this world a better place with Mindfulness.
Author: Latika Sakhuja & Sitender Sehrawat
