Areas in Which Families Are Affected by Society - Essay Example

Two days ago, a midnight craving hit me. It was 1 o’clock at night and I was starving so I came down and went to the kitchen. Now I was thinking about what to eat. So I ended up deciding on fried eggs, French toast, and a coffee. Before actually making all these things, a thing came into my mind like these things are OUGHT to be eaten at breakfast, not at night or at dinner. I thought a lot and after fifteen minutes of mental struggle, I decided to make them. So I enjoyed my “breakfast” at night nearly at 1 o’clock. The next day I shared this with my family and friends and they all laughed so hard and ended up making fun of me for having such eatables at night. At that point, I realized that even the smallest thing like our eating habits are so much influenced by our surroundings that just eating something at night which my family and friends eat in the morning had earned me the label of “freak”. Obviously, it’s not like there’s a label written on every eggs packet, “forbidden eating at night”, is more our daily routine that we mostly eat eggs and French toast our breakfast.

 Apart from this, my sleeping schedule is also influenced by my surroundings. My father is a highly disciplined and punctual man. He literally follows a mantra of “early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise”. So my family is in habit of sleeping early at night. I, on the other hand, am in habit of sleeping late at night most likely my friends whom I often talk to or text or read a book or join some friends on net chats at night. So what I concluded was that even living with my family who is early sleepers I still can’t get rid of sleeping late at night. This means individual choices can also be powerful more than society even if it’s not supported by everyone in a society.

So the thing is there are so many areas in which family is affected by society. Almost more than fifty percent of our habits are due to our society just like I explained above as our eating habits. But the thing is there are some exceptional cases where individual choices are so strong and powerful that even a particular surrounding can’t change it but that definitely doesn’t mean that society is not powerful.

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• Shaping the temporal patterns of our lives: The social coordination of occupation by Elizabeth A Larson