SLC-S29/W6-“Thinking and Ideas!| One Idea Worth Spreading!”

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Share one idea you believe could improve lives (locally or globally)

Actually, the idea I want to share is to have a screen-free day once a month, which will benefit everyone. Although the idea is simple, the impact of the book can be profound. Because this is something that people cannot even think about in today's society or in the present era. People in a village or an area will turn off their mobiles, TV, games, social media for a few hours on a specific day in a month and spend time together. This has the potential to be something good.

In the afternoon, everyone will come out of the house, some will talk in the neighborhood field, some will tell stories, some will play Ludo, some will play Carom, the little ones will run and play. Some may bring their own cooked pitha, or snacks. Some will help the children in their studies. The elderly will sit next to them and tell old history or horror stories.

This does not require any formality and does not require much money. Just good communication with everyone and spending useful and quality time with everyone. Usually, we see that fathers are busy with their mobiles, mothers are busy with various serials and children are busy playing games. There is no time to sit face to face and talk to everyone. But one day that distance will be shorter, I think.

Why is this idea important now?

The biggest problem in today's society is that social media and mobile screens and skins are causing a lot of harm to people, both physically and mentally. Hey, today's society or state system has become very harmful. Again, the biggest problem of today is not the lack of technology but the distance in relationships. Conversations in the family are decreasing, friendships are being limited to online, children are busy playing games on their mobiles, leaving the field.

And the elderly are seen spending their days alone, either on TV or not. Even though humans are incredibly busy, their minds are empty, people's irritation is increasing without tea leaves. Many times, small misunderstandings are becoming big problems because people are not talking and not giving time to each other, due to which there is no end to misunderstandings and this is happening constantly.

If you don't discuss good and bad things with everyone, you can't do anything good. And no mistake is solved. This is mainly why I think it is very important. Because people have been diverted through social media and e-media on various lines, due to which there has been a distance between people and many problems have arisen, therefore, at least through this initiative, people will come back to people and be able to have conversations. And in this case, it is possible to stay away from technology, at least during this time, and people will benefit mentally and physically.

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Who do you feel needs to hear this idea the most?

This idea is most needed for parents and the younger generation. If parents do not spend time with their children, the children will grow up in ISKCON and this will harm their intellectual development and they will become weaker in the future, they will forget the system of building relationships with people and various problems will start in society. If they are online, it will never benefit them.

They will continue to do the things that need to be done in their real context, due to which society will not progress in any way because time is always dependent on the youth. The youth grow up one by one and take the society forward, and if these youth become addicted to mobile phones and enter the virtual world more, then it will not be possible.

Many times in such cities, the names of the other people next to the same flat are not known because they do not mix with each other or talk to each other, only each one is the king in his own virtual world. And in this way, one spends years after another being strangers to each other, even though his house is next to him, so I think this initiative can break that unknown wall and bring people back to people.

What is the first small step someone could take to begin?

It can be started very easily, first fix a specific day, for example, the first Friday of every month from 4 pm to 7 pm, then a small announcement or group will be made. Since everyone uses mobile and everyone has WhatsApp or Messenger, open a group there and remind everyone.

On that day, everyone will be on silent mobile, for that, games will be organized, there will be chats and stories for adults and there will be various kinds of fun things. Tea and snacks will be shared as much as they want, so at first, few people may come, but after a few months, when it becomes a habit of people, you will see that many people will come and agree to this initiative and everyone will come forward for the benefit of everyone.

Currently, the biggest need of people is not Dhaka or technology, sometimes just a person sitting next to you makes life easier and talking from this side is called a platform for people and through this, people can come forward in the face of human danger. That is why the best way to stand by others now is to come forward for sharing, sharing, talking together, discussing.

Thank you very much sister @ninapenda, for arranging such a contest.

I want to invite my 3 friends,
@bijoy1
@samhunnahar
@hafizullah