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| Home is Key Question 10 |
If community-builders are justified in being emotionally insensitive to the family, aren't home-makers justified in being intellectually insensitive to the community? |
As business executives or as social workers, we represent the cause of the community to be above that of the family. And even as we self-centredly pursue wealth and/or social-status under the guise of selfless sacrifice for the community, we take for granted those very people to whom we profess our greatest love and commitment - our spouses and our children. Little wonder then, that male-chauvinism and feminism get carried over from our disintegrating homes to legitimately frustrate our efforts to integrate our communities. That our homes exist within our communities is an inescapable reality and the efforts to build both of them have to be necessarily pursued simultaneously. Even as we attempt to give our goodness a breadth of expression to build the good community, we need to give it a depth of expression to build the good family. Our families have hitherto been sustained on the tradition of home-makers valuing the cause of the community as enabling their survival. Our business executives and social workers have thus been encouraged to become intellectually more sensitive. As higher education increases our social expectations and community turmoil, we are no longer in the battle for human survival but in the throes of human development. We need new insights and awareness to preserve our families and save our homes. We need to review and revalue the “hyper” emotional sensitivity of the home-maker as higher sensitivity. We need to envision the depth of the home-maker’s mission of building the good family to be as valuable as the breadth of our mission to build the good community. It has been an exciting revelation for Alacrity that by encouraging its managers to value the higher emotional sensitivity of their home-makers, it is possible to pursue the building of not just the good family but the good community as well. Realising the key role the home plays in human development, Alacrity works sensitively, purposefully and productively to keep the family together - the Alacrity way. If you would like to share with us your views and experience on this subject or just tell us you are interested, concerned, excited or plain surprised, you could write to us at Post Bag No.8578 (H-10), Chennai 600 017, India or email us at alacrity@webindia.com. We will share with you, both the exhilarating and disappointing moments of our own efforts so far. And maybe continue the process of building successful homes together with you. |