Society is one topic that never
adheres from amusing you. The vast number of individuals, the instincts that
each of them present, the way they speak, walk, dress etc., everything says
something or the other about their psychologies and quite interestingly, this
aspect is more random than you can ever estimate.
Nature and nurture are just two
concepts that seem to be quite intimately connected, yet they are not. Nature
is just natural. Nurture, on the other hand, is ‘natural’ artificiality. [I
will explain what I mean by this term a while later but first, let’s clarify
nature.] According to a dictionary, nature is defined as- “the natural world;
consisting of all things unaffected by predating human technology, production
and design.” Pretty simple a definition, all it suggests is that there are
certain elements in the society or the universe (if viewed from a larger
perspective) that are imminent, that are obvious, that are a part of our
creation and those that exist, irrespective of our existence. What we mean by
‘elements of nature’ is just this and no matter how much we read or write about
it, try to mould and change it, we just cannot end in success.
Nature and nurture are just two
concepts that seem to be quite intimately connected, yet they are not. Nature
is just natural. Nurture, on the other hand, is ‘natural’ artificiality. [I
will explain what I mean by this term a while later but first, let’s clarify
nature.] According to a dictionary, nature is defined as- “the natural world;
consisting of all things unaffected by predating human technology, production
and design.” Pretty simple a definition, all it suggests is that there are
certain elements in the society or the universe (if viewed from a larger
perspective) that are imminent, that are obvious, that are a part of our
creation and those that exist, irrespective of our existence. What we mean by
‘elements of nature’ is just this and no matter how much we read or write about
it, try to mould and change it, we just cannot end in success.[A point to be noted here is that by nature we may consider two separate viewpoints i.e. one that is a part of this universe as defined moments ago, the other being our composure of situations, our instincts and reactions, often referred to as ‘attitude’. Now attitude is a different story altogether but if I shorten my descriptions we will observe that attitude is not really natural but a vague result of nurture. So we may not consider the other definition of nature here in the description of nature.]
Nurture is a separate concept [as told
earlier] but it can be derived from nature. Let’s put is this way- Nature is
actually Nurtured and nurture leads us to our attitude. By this statement, all I’m trying to convey is that nurture is something that we don’t inherit, something that’s not obvious but very random.
The human mind is built in such a way that right from childhood, we learn to think and nurture topics on our own. Some conceptions are created by our elders, some are that we discover on our own and some are just accepted by us the way they are. All these conceptions fall under Nurture.
Let us get one thing clear. The
concept of nurture is interwoven with nature but unlike nature, nurtured
articles, conceptions etc. exist because we make them existent in the way we choose.
Now, coming to the question of importance, I would be biased towards nurture a
bit more than nature. I believe that when we have plural options, we always
have an alternative to our choice. This is the reason of the bias. Nurture
provides us with a series of options we can choose from even when we have
chosen one. Let us consider a set of individuals who’ve chosen the wrong
concepts for an element. Nurture provides this set of individuals a second
chance and assuming that they take up the initiative of choosing the better
option, the society can well be a better place….. I’m sure of it…
Thanks,
Vishal Ghosh
