Living in a big city has many advantages.We can buy good cars, can have good homes.We have a plenty of clothes ,electronics items and what not .We do have some things which are problematic like traffic, noise and many a times crime.
Still, people do like to live there.Many even feel egoistic about it.I would like to term this as "Big City Ego" ! What is it? This is a word I did not read from anywhere, even though such a term might be existing.This is the feeling that many of my fellow urbanites have of feeling superior because they happen to live in; or born in a big city. They even make others feel inferior or worse, try to humiliate them.
I was born in New Delhi, bought up, educated and for major part of my career, worked here.Yet; it does not make me feel something extra special. It does not give me "license" to make others feel inferior or brag about myself.
Yet; there are some friends as well as relatives of mine who take extreme pride in being born or living in Delhi (specifically Delhi, not the NCR region).They feel that others are inferior to them . Now, this feeling is nothing specific to Delhites .I recall seeing a Hindi Movie "Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai" in which a College student of a Mumbai College, where the film's hero Abhishek Bacchan had gone to study, was ragging Abhishek Bacchan and asked him a question : From which "Village" are you?
Abhishek Bacchan replies : "I am not from a Village, but from city Varanasi ." (or was it Allahabad city? I don't exactly recall ).
To this, the other person said : "Every place outside Mumbai is a village ! ".
This kind of an attitude might also be prevalent in countries other than India.In any case, such an attitude is condemnable.
Just because you are born, living or doing a job in a place with more facilities, money, job oppportunities and luxuries of life does not give you license to deplore others; or to mock them.
It is by god's will that things happened in our lives in way that made us live here.So, we must be humble and treat people living in smaller cities as well as Villages with respect and friendliness.
Aren't we all equal before god ?
What do you think ?
I was born in New Delhi, bought up, educated and for major part of my career, worked here.Yet; it does not make me feel something extra special. It does not give me "license" to make others feel inferior or brag about myself.
Yet; there are some friends as well as relatives of mine who take extreme pride in being born or living in Delhi (specifically Delhi, not the NCR region).They feel that others are inferior to them . Now, this feeling is nothing specific to Delhites .I recall seeing a Hindi Movie "Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai" in which a College student of a Mumbai College, where the film's hero Abhishek Bacchan had gone to study, was ragging Abhishek Bacchan and asked him a question : From which "Village" are you?
Abhishek Bacchan replies : "I am not from a Village, but from city Varanasi ." (or was it Allahabad city? I don't exactly recall ).
To this, the other person said : "Every place outside Mumbai is a village ! ".
This kind of an attitude might also be prevalent in countries other than India.In any case, such an attitude is condemnable.
Just because you are born, living or doing a job in a place with more facilities, money, job oppportunities and luxuries of life does not give you license to deplore others; or to mock them.
It is by god's will that things happened in our lives in way that made us live here.So, we must be humble and treat people living in smaller cities as well as Villages with respect and friendliness.
Aren't we all equal before god ?
What do you think ?
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