You, your parents and the tyranny of distance.
Tyranny of distance is a phrase often used in media to explain why certain events don't get due coverage, just because they happen far off from the media centers. If you have ever wondered how the events in state capitals get more coverage than the hinterlands, you can perhaps blame it to the tyranny of distance. The phrase came into existence after the book titled “Tyranny of distance” was published in the year 1966. The book is about the history of Australia and talks about how the continents' attitude was shaped differently because of it being located far off from other mainlands.
Tyranny of distance often reflects in our family relationships too. Geographical and physical distance from our family has a bearing on what we become and how we live. The support which family members provide to each other doesn’t get compensated with other things. One of the most far-reaching effects of this tyranny of distance in a family is the impact it can have on the health of our parents who live far away from us. If you live abroad with your parents back in India, how often do you meet your parents? Once or twice a year? Or, maybe once in two years. However good be our frequency of communication with our parents, living far away from them, we often find it difficult to know about their real state of health. We care about them. They know it too. We try our best to fathom, they try their best to conceal. Not because they do not want to tell but because they don’t want us to get worried. Innocent but worrisome, this remains a problem as it concerns health and happiness. Technology has made most of the distance-related problems obsolete. Except, perhaps, this one. We at Swasmos have attempted to address this.
The book "Tyranny of Distance" is currently not available on Amazon. Maybe with increasing connectivity, it is an unrelatable subject. In a time where most of the distance-related problems are disappearing, we believe and hope that the tyranny of distance that affects the elders and families, disappear too.
Through Swasmos offerings, we have attempted to do our bit.
Swasmos offers convenient health management for elderly people who want to live a healthy and easy old age. The Swasmos package offers tracking tools for you to track, monitor, and be close to the health needs of the elders in your family.