Samvaad: A dialogue between me and my parents

"Why are you wasting your life?" " Why don't you study for IAS or a government job?"
"What about your career and settling in?" " What will we say to the society about what you do?"


Dear friends

Haven't we all heard some or all of these at some point or the other in our lives? Have we then accepted that our parents will never understand us and got into an ever lasting war?

In a conversation with a co worker a few days ago, she remarked that inspite our parent's having all the luxuries and success in life, they still have a reason to not be happy because of our career choices.
And I couldn't agree less. Ever since I graduated from college and wanted to make my own life choices which din't align to their understanding of "settling in", I have been in a constant friction with my father.
Sadanand Ji, a mentor, calls it creative tension, which I believe is such a great cause of stress for me most of the times.

Having known that a lot of us might be in this "creative tension" with varying degrees with our parents and relatives about our life choices, we thought to work this out together.

Ravi Bhaiya,founder of Manzil has agreed to facilitate one such dialogue (Samvaad) between a set of parents and children for a deeper true conversation about our lives. The idea is to open space for conversations to understand our parents and their fears and let them know us and our choices better.

To take a step further to organise such dialogue, we want to hear from you, about your and your parent's interest to be a part of this Samvaad.

Please fill this form, which would help us to understand the current situation around this theme.Once we hear from you and deepen the understanding of how your relationship with your parents has been - we shall build the design and invitation.

About the date and venue - you will hear from us soon :)

Feel free to share this with your friends and family.Lets get all the people we care about together.

Looking forward to hearing from you by 30th September.

In hope for a better future
Vibhuti
Email: vibhutiagg.19@gmail.com