In most cases many of us get really trapped in a fixed mental framework, say one or more of:
1. Traditional convention (many orthodox thoughts, that are outdated),
e.g. dowry;
2. Routine religious rituals (many of these do not bring any succour; some people commonly touch a cow and think they have earned some punya, but they do not bother, that the very same cow is scavenging garbage!);
3. Pomp and show by the elected candidates, and then forgetting the promises given to the public;
4. Ranking-level attitudes in some of us, higher and lower levels, hierarchy in several positions in jobs;
and so on...
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Despite the tremendous technological progress, and lot of progress in education (all over the world), our mind sets, when get locked in the above limitations do not allow us to see and experience several opportunities offered by life to us; and we live a limited expanse of life.
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