Development

People said development is unstoppable. You are either join in the crowd or be marginalised. Having said this, many of us only consider physical and economy development are the so called development and progress. We are looking at the physical transformation of a place or materialistic as development. We are seldom take into consideration social development as progress development. For example, in the 60s, people knew each others and neighbourhood security is of non issue. Nowadays, high fencing and tight security are there to protect the neighbourhood for the reason of better safety. While we have achieved economically well, we are backward when it comes to social development. So, are we talking about the true meaning of development here. We are at the Catch 22 situation here as society is facing the vicious cycle of development. People rich with friendly and social interaction in the old days are more happier than now that we hardly talk to each others or even know our immediate neighbours. Are we paying the price for so called development?

If the answer is yes, then why should we so eagerly pursuing the development as what we perceived now? I think many are in the loss. People are working hard to feed their family in which they will have to fore go the precise time together with the family. When they have accumulated enough wealth, the relationship between husband and wife or parent and children are not as cordial as we should think of, hence the starting of other social problems such as youth rebellion, drug etc. If we have realised it from the beginning, why should we not prioritising the family and social development first instead of the wealth creation?

In this era of competitiveness and capitalism, no one will dare to risk their chance of not doing well and harder for more wealth. Hence, not many can afford to place family first and economic development later. The game of pursuing development will go on until and unless the nature call for us to go slower or stop. We will only learn the lesson when the time comes, I presume.