The rurals after a century (continued from Changing lifestyles)

Those members of a rural family who engage in tilling the soil,do get up very early, but they are in no rush to head for the fields. They take their sweet time over preparing for their morning prayers, and in the end asking God for a whole lot of bounties.Then they take time to deliberate over their breakfast, and then they go into their fields timed with ‘mechanised farming’ their lunch hour gets pushed a little further, as compared to their grandfather’s times.When it is time to snooze, the older of the lot still prefer to be under the shade of a spreading green tree;rather than the stand fan that blows hot air more in the already hot room. Late, late afternoon might see them in the village street not square (where is it anymore?) where there are shops, radios and gossiping crowds. They might even make a short trip to nearby town, for some specific work or appointment.Yay for the mobile phone,it gets you appointments. Back home dinner is elaborate, suiting the dignity of rural field/farm working menfolk, and it is earlier than sunset, like in the olden days.Then cannot say how early it is to bed. Because of the TV set, in many a rural household.They do take out time and particularly so for the village folks; their kith and kin maybe outside their own village, for their chief events like births, deaths and wedding celeberations; simply meeting each other under each other’ s trees like of old is not enough. Time spent on special occasions is not deemed wasted. And time required to pay back debts incurred due to these occasions is something they bear with great forbearance. This is because culture has crept into these people’ s lives and enslaved them. Yes times have changed. And changes have been timed.