Article # 44
Friday 05, November 2021
I spend my childhood and most of my teenage in my village. When I reach at the age of 22 I left my village and resided in Islamabad for a job. I am residing here for the last 9 years. Islamabad is the capital and one of the most advanced cities in Pakistan. Almost most of the people living here are elite and living a lavishing luxurious lifestyle. The people living in Islamabad are generally called "Burgers" which means the people living here are most impressed by the western lifestyle and they try to imitate them by speaking like them, developed eating habits like fast food and they are most fragile because they are not used to the tougher lifestyle.
I have spent my childhood and teenage in the village. The people of my village are tougher and rigid like other villagers. They mostly spent their life working hard in the fields and they mostly dont hire labor for it even though they can afford it because they love to do hard work by their hands.
I am familiar with both lifestyles so I thought I should share my thoughts about both lifestyles. It would make you guys familiar if you are not familiar with any one of them.
Village Lifestyle
Village lifestyle is commotion less and peaceful as people live their lives simply. They dont have most of the facilities and most families are living as joint families. Mostly, people in the villages know each other because the villages are mostly small in size and the population is mostly less so they live as a community with strong relationships with each other. People have limited requirements and they live their life simpler.
Normally villagers are helpful and they love to give helping hands to each other in times of distress. The big example is no one needs to hire labor for digging up the grave for the dead as the villagers do all the digging.
Village life has benefits but it has problems at the same time. Thats the case with everything in the world.
Advantages of Village Lifestyle
People in the village have easy access to fresh fruits, vegetables, pure milk, and other food. So they are mostly living a healthy life compared to people living in urban areas.
Living as a community is a very plus point as most of the work is done by helping people. I have already given you the example of digging up the graves and there are many more examples. Another example is people mostly help in making the necessary marriage arrangements.
The environment of the village is mostly pollution-free as vehicles and factories are relatively less. Life is always peaceful because the noise of vehicles moving on the roads can not be heard. The people in the village can breathe the fresh air
Villagers mostly live tension-free life because they dont have any competition like we mostly see in the cities. People live their life simply by working in the fields and they spend very little on their basic needs and dont have any wish for luxurious life.
Villagers mostly dont know the word "bored" because living in a joint family can never be boring. They spend their time with relatives and friends when they are free.
Living in villages is very cheap as compared to urban areas because they have easy access to fruits, vegetables because farming is a basic source of income.
Life is very slow in the villages. They mostly wake up early in the morning which makes the pace of life very slow. They have more time a day than people living in the cities.
The young generation has high respect for their elders and they treat them with respect and love because of living closed with each other.
The crime ratio like theft and robbery is very less because of low population and people knowing each other
Disadvantages of Village Lifestyle
One of the biggest disadvantages is lack of education. People living in the villages are mostly less educated because they dont have the best educational institute there. Also, education is mostly not their preference.
Another biggest disadvantage is the lack of facilities. They dont have electricity and they face heavy load-shedding if they have access to electricity. I have seen load-shedding for two days in my village. They dont have proper roads and advanced hospitals that's why they shift their patients to the nearest city hospitals due to lack of facilities in their local hospitals.
Sometimes the animosity between families leads to bloodshed and murder of many people. And the animosity remains in the families for generations and does not end easily because the people living in the village are mostly hard-headed and aggressive.
People are mostly narrow-minded due to a lack of education and no exposure to the outer world.
Educated people have fewer opportunities because the people in the villages are mostly farmers. Thats why the educated class mostly leave their villages and shift to cities for opportunities. I am one of the educated class who left his village and shifted to the city for a job.
The good thing is that people are changing in the village too as people are focusing on education and most of the population are educated now. Awareness comes with education so now people are asking for the basic facilities of health and education in villages too. People used to consider the girl's education bad and disliked it in my village a decade ago but now the mindset is changing and we can even see some girls have completed MBBS degrees from my village. Women empowerment has reached the villages.
Over time, i have come to realise I am more suited for the rural lifestyle, howbeit with a provision of some benefits of the other end