Herald: THEY ARRIVE AT RAVE PARTIES – Herald Goa

09 Sep 2022 | 05:26am IST

Joseph Lewis DSilva

Many village voices that are not jealous and those that do not pull others down, but want to bring out the best in fellow Goan citizens have these things to say.

Life is a journey amidst all sorts of people and whether by choice or circumstances, we have to live amidst people filled with greed, envy, power, position, prestige; and society, consciously or unconsciously, controls our minds, shapes our hearts, our actions when we mix with each other and struggle for all the things that man has set up as being extremely important in life.

The general public needs friendly companionship, good relationship and therefore associates and mix with each other; listening to rib ticking jokes; enjoying doing things in turns, spending time collectively in celebrations at birthday parties, festivals and thus derive the mental pleasure called happiness. Parties are loaded with food and the heart of socialisation atmosphere is always linked with the bottle. But such feelings of happiness are fleeting; and the fine weather friends who participate in parties are not worth much. Some socialise children with a small circle of family members or friends and mingle them to fit for life in companionship with others. Some have no time to join party circles either because they are working with some personal work; and their children have no time to join any get-together because of studies. But that does not mean they are unsocial. One should not arrive at such wrong conclusion and hurt the feelings of others. We are social beings as well as individuals.

But the effect of party fun, snowballs into habit and kills positive spark in later life. Habits that are formed by constant repeated actions illustrate our character. Children are always the biggest victims of excessive parties. Killers, looters, thieves, robbers, and attackers coax our innocent children who easily get persuaded by them and so many turn into alcoholics. Village voices say that continuous parties form like a training centre to be drunkards. Just as seminaries are to train men to be priest, the Indian Police service training is to be good police men; basic flying training school to be good future flying groups. But we should never put children in repeated party environment where drinks are the main thing that dominates along with food.

Agreed not all the participants in such local parties turn out to be alcoholics but as our surrounding atmosphere on seashores is to smooth the progress of tourism, where we have rave parties, trance music through the night. Every action, as Newton, discovered, has an equal and opposite reaction is true in both the physical domain as well as life in general. Over-drinking today may result in habit tomorrow, which is brought on by harmful lifestyles that reveal in years later.

Goans are responsible masters of their own destiny to decide their own fortunes, their future and the future of the coming generation. Those who do not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way against friendly guidance then they are on the road to misfortune. Life for them turns sour; if they do not do good things that are within their power and future generation arrive at rave parties and trance music.

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