The Daily Flow of Life

There seems to be an ebb and flow to India that is unparalleled by the rest of the world. Everything and everyone seems to know what to do, how to do it, and how that interaction is supposed to exist within their domain. There are seemingly few, if any, true rules, and regulations on the roads. People, or animals, can wander into oncoming traffic and it usually turns out just fine. If anything does go wrong, then it is not nearly as detrimental as the same event would be in America. People just seem to know, between the horns, the experience on the roads, and the way life from a young age has prepared them, how things should operate. There does exist a difference in society and social statuses however. This ebb and flow breaks in terms of the abuse and trafficking of women, the castes demeaning and condemning those of a lower caste, and the fact that animals have more rights than humans in some cases. 

These are what appear to me to be essential for life and morality to continue, and the natural flow of life doesn’t seem to account for these key areas of Indian society. With that said, the roadway interactions, street life, and the lives of the families in many of the more rural areas, appears to work like a machine. Everything just goes about as intended, and people just know what to do. That was a very strange phenomenon that I fail to see in America. Maybe because we have the ideology that we can be anything and do anything. Maybe it would be better if we were told what we could be and do to some degree. This is still something that I am pondering, so I don’t want to reconsider the American dream just yet.

India just seemed to work. The cogs on the machine all fit so well, everything lined up and synced up, it just worked. There were thousands of people, hundreds of vehicles, dozens of animals, and they all traversed life in seemingly perfect existence of one another. Sure, there were wrecks, but still nothing usually became of them. The society just operated on an entirely different level than that of America, whether for good or bad. I have yet to find anything state side that works even remotely close to that of daily life in India.