Yesterday, I was thrilled with musical performances in singing by a lot of young boys and girls participating in a competition. In connection with this competition, I happened to watch closely communication level and mutual cooperation in the family of my colleague in the organization devoted to searching and promoting musical talents in rural areas of India. The organization principally works in my area where active entertainment ways, like singing, dancing, etc are missing from the lives of the people.
My first impression of listening to mutual conversations of the family members was of nostalgia for the members keeping on talking minor things for long and in details, with everyone sharing everything of his/her experiences with almost everyone else coming his/her way. To me, it appeared to be loss of precious time on issues of minor nature.
This impression of mine about the family is born out of tradition of my own family wherein we discuss things of utmost importance only in minimum possible words and based on relevance of the person to the matter. Youngsters don’t talk much in presence of seniors, and seniors don’t disclose their minds with juniors treating them irrelevant. This results into a calm and quiet atmosphere when both seniors and juniors are present at a place.
My second related observation in the family of my colleague is about mutual cooperation among members of the family. If one has a project in hand, minor or major, he/she will discuss it with all others, and all others were seen cooperating through providing resources at their commands for the project’s success. For example, for the above-said music competition gathering, my friend’s wife cooked a huge amount of food and packed to be carried to the site, his mother offered financial participation by giving him Rs 4,000 for continent expenses as the event is organized. Two small children accompanied us to the site to serve the arriving guests for the event, the farmer father of my colleague accompanied us to oversee the arrangements and help us, though he has no interest in music.
Although, for such active participation of the family members, the event looked like a family issue, but the success of the event was ensured through this participation only. As far as, other organizers of the event, including me, are concerned, only the directly concerned persons were present. Their family members were not even knowing what these organizers are involved in and with what consequences.
We are generally accustomed and subscribe to partitioned lifestyles where personal, family, social and professional lives are partitioned. The new observation of mine in the colleague’s family gives me a new light for further thinking on the mutual relationships, communications and cooperation among family members.
This experience reminds me of a marketing strategy of ‘show more to sell more’ under which sellable commodities are displayed in huge quantities to attract more customers and hence to improve selling of the commodities through showrooms. The analogy derives me to the point of saying ‘communicate more to get more cooperation’. And, I tend to agree.
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