We are social beings, we cannot but mix with others. Do you think that healthy growth is possible within the four walls of our houses without mixing with the others? People living in society?
From my childhood, I have gone through the usual funnel of upbringing. School in the morning, one or two hours of sleep in the afternoon, and then playing in the playground until evening. During the evening, study hours used to be going on as long as it was not the time for dinner. Go to bed early and wake up early in the morning. On the next day, the same usual routine, school friends, also friends from the area that I live in. That's how we usually grow up, right?
Today, I met with a girl from tenth standard. Her father is a government employee and they are always on a run from one city to another. I knew that she was enrolled in a school in another city, and would go there during exam times only. But today, I asked her when it was the last time that she went to her classes, and she said long ago, in sixth standard. For the last four years she hasn’t attended any classes, just the exams. No classes means no school friends and no social interaction with classmates or teachers.
Well, there is nothing concerning about her studies as wherever they go, they bring the best home tutors for her and she is very attentive to her studies. Results will be good, no doubt, but what about social life? She is an extremely introvert. She doesn’t mix with the other kids as well, is confined within her family, and has two small sisters to play with, they are in the same situation as well.
They are solvent and belong to the high-class category of society. They are giving everything to their kids, top-class products and services except their social life. Is it adjustable? You tell me, someone who isn’t mixing with the other kids for the last four years, no scope of going out and mixing with the neighboring kids as well, changing cities one after another, just the family, how is that kid going to keep pace with the outside world? Just a year or so, then they must set her loose for her college, even if they manage that like this, what about university life? What about the future endeavors that are yet to come? Won't they find it hard to cope with those situations?
Even after going with the flow, we are finding things so hard to maintain sometimes. Seeing people getting depressed and frustrated just because they are failing in their social life. I have seen some suffering closely. If things aren’t synchronized properly then there are sure to be some problems, major ones.