In this age of globalization and in this advancement of information
technology the world has become a global village where everything is changing fast.
None can predict what is going to be happened tomorrow. But in this race of
development we have to keep ourselves on the track otherwise generation gap
will push us to the bin. Adjusting with the existing situation is the key to
success.
The theory of fashion fade trend and style became admixture. It
became really difficult to identify these separately; these are no more
mutually exclusive. Culture of today is going to take the taste of antic value in
the near tomorrow. The components of our daily life, going to bed, wake up,
taking breakfast, having lunch and dinner or spending time remain unchanged but
the color and taste have been changed to a great extent. Peoples became more
and more busy and spending their time with IT devices. To read a novel became a
tedious task for this glamorous new generation.
In our age we have to go to the library regularly and read
different types of book to enrich our knowledge. We have to read newspapers for
collecting updated information around the world and our teen-age culture was
like that. Now a day youngsters don’t have their time to go to the libraries.
They have their PCs, laptops and smart phones to access to the latest and
updated information at any time within a couple of moments everything from sex
to Shakespeare.
In this process of civilization or flow of development human
bondage became loosened. Individualism is rolling and sparkling all around.
Most of the ideas and thoughts are leaded by ‘I and me’; most of the sentences peoples
use is like that. What have we experience in our babyhood is not familiar with
this new generation. Our moms have to cook all the breakfast, lunch and dinner
for us with due care. She has to spend lots of time near the oven made of clay or
kerosene stove. There were no refrigerator in our age; therefore cooking once a
day and eat round the day was impossible. Our moms have to cook thrice a day. That
we had taken as foods that were fresh and mostly organic in nature.
Now a day peoples have
less time to spend on cooking. They prefer to take lunch or dinner outside the
home at restaurants. Fast food or junk food came out to meet this thrust. These
foodstuffs are either oily or spicy and mostly injurious to health. Beyond that
formalin or other toxic chemicals are added as preservative which have far
reaching impact into our body function. The fish meat vegetables fruits grains
are poisonous everywhere. As a result deadly diseases like cancer, diabetics, abdominal
ulcers, hypertension and other cardio-vascular diseases became widely
increased.
Kitchen culture is going to be thrown, peoples those who are a
bit aware of health prefer to take semi-cooked food to the house from the
department stores and prepare within some minutes and take their food during
lunch or dinner. But these oily/spicy foods increases cholesterol level into
the blood and penetrate blood pressure or heart diseases over time. Cooking
fresh food into the kitchen became a boring job for the moms; they rather
prefer to watch utopian television serials or killing time with facebooking
activities.
On the other hand, the popular saying ‘early to bed early to
rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise’ has gone to the banishment. Mom and
other family members go to bed at late night and wake up late in the morning.
She don’t have much time to cook in the morning, she has to go out for the job.
Therefore semi-processed foods like bread-butter eggs or frozen food etc. are
the solution in the morning breakfast.
At noon there are junk fast foods, yeah those are lucrative and yummy
to finish the working lunch. And during night mom is tired enough to cook, she
request the hubby to prepare food. The husband is also exhausted to do this
critical boredom job. So going out to take dinner or preparing semi-cooked food
is the probable solution. In this way the culture is changing through
generation as demanded by age. We have nothing to do but to accept the reality
of modern life. Things are like that nothing hallucination.
Now we have our modern improved kitchen, those days of chopped
wood and oven or stove have gone, we have microwave oven, gas and electricity
everything but we have no time, we have no time to cook healthy foods. Moms are
conscious enough and don’t accept gender discrimination. We also believe in
equal opportunity. Both the papa and mom are tired and busy and readymade foods
are there in the convenience stores. Hence, this is the way to live and to
nourish ourselves with this prevailing culture.
In yesterday it was thought that mom is the person to prepare
all the foods for the whole family. But the concept has been changed over time,
now the mom became conscious so far exploitation or liberty is concern. They
think that they are not the maid servant to spend their lives with this tedious
fashionable cooking; they became clamorous in favor of their right and equal
opportunity. Papa is also sympathetic and can’t reveal this argument. One the
other hand maid servants are not available because they prefer to get a job
where wage is higher and where liberty is there. In this cultural context we
must choose from the best available alternatives to nourish our body.
It might be the opinion of a senior citizen but it might be a
generation gap identified by the young peoples. Every yesterday is a memory for
the today and every tomorrow is a dream for today. No matter could we accept it
or not, time will fly soundlessly without our concern. It is better, let us
live with melodious memory and rosy dream. Trend is the working force of
development or modernization. What Europe is experiencing today we the Asians
will experience in the near tomorrow, essence is trickling down. There might be
some movement in favor of green universe but nothing returns back to the
origin.
[ASHRAFUL MUSADDEQ]
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