<ul><li>Most of the working ones are up by 5 and they are out for work by 7. It’s not something uncommon here.</li><li>Though it’s considered and displayed in Bollywood, I’ve never seen a man denying to cook or a woman denying to plow the fields merely because of their gender.</li><li>Almost all of the houses here feed street animals, not intending to pet them but to help them not starve.</li><li>Even if there is electricity all day, there is never a lack of interactions between people here.</li></ul><a href="https://shivanandp.medium.com/rural-aint-that-backward-72ad80dd14fc">Continue Reading</a>...<a href="https://www.shivanandp.medium.com">For more</a>

Rural Ain't That Backward

People maintain the cleanliness around the house with the same effort and interest they do inside the house. Everyone cleans the roads around their own house, thanks to the Never-Appearing Municipal Corporations here.

Sanity, Is As Important Around The House, As It Is Inside The House

<figure><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/500/0*y3nAhWMFRO_" width="680" height="453"><figcaption class="fz ga ew eu ev gb gc ba b bb bc by" data-selectable-paragraph="" dir="ltr">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@vahidmoeini?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" class="ds gd" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Vahid Moeini Jazani</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral" class="ds gd" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><img alt="Shivanand P aka. The Infinity Writings" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/500/1*JZm_VrT6qZ64nCLdMuQjbA" width="28" height="28">Being lived in a rural area for most of my life, I always used to look down on the villages and the practices there. “What a boring, backward place to be born in” is what I thought about villages.Until today morning. When I just wanted to make myself feel better and started to list the things better in a rural area than in the metro-cities.You will/may not get any motivation after reading this, but it will surely convince you to visit, if not stay in, the countrysides.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Wake Up Before The Sun</h1>They don’t struggle to do this, maybe it’s just in their genes now. Most of the working ones are up by 5 and they are out for work by 7. And they don’t make a big fuss out of waking up early in the morning. It’s not something uncommon here.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Have Faith, In The Greater Being</h1>In rural areas, it’s mostly God. But you don’t have to buy this concept, you don’t have to believe in a single greater creature. But always have faith that there is something out there in the vast universe, that created us, and is far more intelligent than us. This will give you enough empathy and humbleness towards the less intelligent beings.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">There Is No Gender-Specific Work</h1>Though it’s considered and displayed in Bollywood, villages aren’t that backward. I’ve never seen a man denying to cook or a woman denying to plow the fields merely because of their gender.So is the fact that more physical works are taken up by men and women do most of the household. But this division is not done based on only the genders.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">There Is No Such Thing As A Stray Dog</h1>Almost all of the houses here feed street animals, not intending to pet them but to help them not starve. In return, the dogs guard the boundaries of the house, and cats lookout for any intruders inside it.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Sanity, Is As Important Around The House, As It Is Inside The House.</h1>People maintain the cleanliness around the house with the same effort and interest they do inside the house. Everyone cleans the roads around their own house, thanks to the Never-Appearing Municipal Corporations here.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">Spend Some Time Without Electronics</h1>Thanks to the regular power cuts here, they make sure you live in darkness.But even if there is electricity all day, there is never a lack of interactions between people here, even during the lockdown.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">The Neighbouring House Is Your Home Too</h1>If you are in a metropolitan city, you’ll know that the aunty next door does no more help to you except spreading the rumors of your non-existing dating life. This might not be true if you live in a society like Taarak Mehta’s.But that’s not the case in rural areas, you are always welcome to other houses and even the youngest creature in the next house will know what’s cooking in your house for dinner.Thank you for reading.I didn’t try to make this one the Sound-Good and Good-To-Read article, but I hope you found it good for at least something.<a href="https://0e7l0cv0oil.typeform.com/to/D7IBSl4c" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">Subscribe</a> to get more amazing content straight into your inbox.<h1 data-selectable-paragraph="">About me:</h1>Shivanand P, an Indian engineering student 🙂.Connect with me <a href="http://linktr.ee/shivp_436" rel="noopener nofollow" dir="ltr">here</a>

Being lived in a rural area for most of my life, I always used to look down on the villages and the practices there. “What a boring, backward place to be born in” is what I thought about villages…

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Being lived in a rural area for most of my life, I always used to look down on the villages and the practices there. “What a boring, backward place to be born in” is what I thought about villages.

Until today morning. When I just wanted to make myself feel better and started to list the things better in a rural area than in the metro-cities.

You will/may not get any motivation after reading this, but it will surely convince you to visit, if not stay in, the countrysides.

They don’t s truggle to do this, maybe it’s just in their genes now. Most of the working ones are up by 5 and they are out for work by 7. And they don’t make a big fuss out of waking up early in the morning. It’s not something uncommon here.

In rural areas, it’s mostly God. But you don’t have to buy this concept, you don’t have to believe in a single greater creature. But always have faith that there is something out there in the vast universe, that created us, and is far more intelligent than us. This will give you enough empathy and humbleness towards the less intelligent beings.

Though it’s considered and displayed in Bollywood, villages aren’t that backward. I’ve never seen a man denying to cook or a woman denying to plow the fields merely because of their gender.

So is the fact that more physical works are taken up by men and women do most of the household. But this division is not done based on only the genders.

Almost all of the houses here feed street animals, not intending to pet them but to help them not starve. In return, the dogs guard the boundaries of the house, and cats lookout for any intruders inside it.

Sanity, Is As Important Around The House, As It Is Inside The House.

People maintain the cleanliness around the house with the same effort and interest they do inside the house. Everyone cleans the roads around their own house, thanks to the Never-Appearing Municipal Corporations here.

Thanks to the regular power cuts here, they make sure you live in darkness.

But even if there is electricity all day, there is never a lack of interactions between people here, even during the lockdown.

If you are in a metropolitan city, you’ll know that the aunty next door does no more help to you except spreading the rumors of your non-existing dating life. This might not be true if you live in a society like Taarak Mehta’s.

But that’s not the case in rural areas, you are always welcome to other houses and even the youngest creature in the next house will know what’s cooking in your house for dinner.

I didn’t try to make this one the Sound-Good and Good-To-Read article, but I hope you found it good for at least something.

<a href="https://0e7l0cv0oil.typeform.com/to/D7IBSl4c">Subscribe </a>to get more amazing content straight into your inbox.

Shivanand P, an Indian engineering student 🙂.

Connect with me <a href="http://linktr.ee/shivp_436">here </a>

Rural Ain’t That Backward

Rural Ain't That Backward

Sanity, Is As Important Around The House, As It Is Inside The House

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