Roti Kapda aur Makan is
the basic need of human life but what else are those needs that force them to
work hard, Being a part of society, Humans are born with lots of responsibility
not only for self but for their family too. Various thinker define it as hierarchy
of need, Physiological, safety, love-belonging, love-esteem and
self-actualization, and these needs are always growing, we take birth, and
spend almost whole of our life in school-colleges and then similar pattern for
their children after marriage, with a fear of insecurity to grow, to save for
their future and the process goes on.
Need drive their
life and motivate towards different satisfaction like few with satisfaction of
money, few for education and few for mental stability. For the same during the
first economic evolution economist created class system as per monetary assets
value to prevent invasion of low economic group people and balance in economy
and for harmony among society. Society was divided among three 1. Low class people/labor
group 2. Middle class people 3. High Income-class people.
Historian defines classes
according to their relation with the means of production/ assest value like
property/gold and numbers of animals. The middle class is defined as the class
blow the high income/ruling clas and above the labor / proletarian class.
“The word middle class
is not a monetary decree, it is how we think, how we feel and make decisions
about others, but usually about ourselves. With years of experience I define
middle class as a mentality or mindset who is looking for stability in life,
stability over enterprise or in emotions etc. Mostly people, who have fear of
the change belongs to this so called middle class trait or personality type.
Middle class is a fear
of borrowing money, an arrogance of being debt free. Middle Class mindsets are
what banks survive on. Taking low interest interest deposits from middle class
mindsets, proposing them a false sense of security, and lending to those not
imprisoned by the middle class mind set. Never mind that they would never pay
it back.
I have
always been middle class and struggled with it. During the past, little success
moment gave some chance to enjoy with elite but again next moment made me
realized what I am, (just a middle class) and finally thrown back to where I
belong, Mostly because inside me I feel, I don’t deserve it. Middle class mean
that you don’t deserve to be extraordinary/ or you are not supposed to be there
or to have these achievements. It was in with last generation and still in with
the present.
The middle class. It
meant knowing you were consigned to a high moral ground but otherwise to
ordinariness. That you would forever be a job seeker than a job creator. But
these job creators in India were those who have thrown caution and morality to
the winds. And actually turned out to be employers! Yet middle class meant
seeking jobs in foreign multinationals, for their sins were unknown to us. They
happened so far away that you assumed those sins did not exist.
Middle Class also
mean certain thrift, with aspiration along with few pairs of cloth, with full
of Creativity to break middle class boundaries and barriers. When I look back
in past, I realize that I was looking at my middle class moralities. I did not
even realize it then.
And I am writing this
at home, alone in my room with new aspiration, considering lots of people who
were rejected or denied in earlier stages of life, but now consider as great
source of inspiration for all, gives immense pleasure and vibrancies to think
positive.
See how strong the
middle class mind set is?
Every night I sleep
with dreams, dreams of today, dreams of tomorrow, and sometimes with the
painful memories of past. What should I do or don’t are still a mystery to me.
Responsibility of future has sprouted a thought of insecurity and realized me
that I am just so middle class.
But I still have a
question that will I ever be able to generate the same courage to break the
shackles of being middle class?
Who knows, but it’s a
question I always ask myself
