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I am the 5 years old boy. Hi all, howzit? Life is fun as a small cute boy. Love all around. Have plenty of food to eat. Lots of playtime with buddies. Long sleeping hours. Despise going to school or study time. Otherwise, life is shanti and jollity throughout childhood. Now if we show the picture of my current age that is late 50’s to that 5 years old boy of mine and  ask him: Does he knows this old man in the picture  The small boy of mine will tell: I DON’T KNOW HIM I AM SCARED SEEING THIS SCARY MAN MUMMY MUMMY COME! I am scared!! NOW WE REWIND THE TIME TO CURRENT TIME AND  ASK THE 60th-decade-old man that is me at the current time. How is life? I will tell you life is tough. Only the toughest can get going. I took the beating of life. I am what I am. A wise and mellowed man Waiting for the tide to take me. Meantime surfing on it, having jolly ride as time permits. Now if we show the picture of my 5 years old and ask this old man whether he knows that boy in the pictu...

We all fall to either one of the above in our daily routine life. It is an important virtue in community living to practice traditional respect or civic consciousness. Asians generally who are deep-rooted in traditions , cultures  and religions are immersed in the practice of traditional respect. A tradition might be about a display of respect, about good manners, which when employed ensures communities are pleasant places to live in. Saying please and thank you, not only to friends but also to family, whose support we should never take for granted, is always important. At times it is blindly practiced to the extent the person being respected doesn’t deserve it. Even there are times, it is practiced to the extent the work process is delayed. Besides the one who being rendered the respect takes advantage of the giver.   So traditions can be either inhibiting or liberating. This is entirely dependent on your outlook or attitude. However civic consciousness which is practiced by ...