Diwali Then and Now

Yesterday after celebrating second day of Diwali festival that is Laxmipujan I talked with friend about our childhood memories and all that meanwhile he talk about festivals then I came back to , He said he is not feeling the same as he used to feel earlier in festival , firstly I thought he became older now so he can't feel the same as he used to feel when he was child but that's not a case there is something else which is not happening in right direction, after think a while I shifted my thoughts towards changing aspects of society to celebrate our festivals. Few year ago when we celebrate Diwali and other festivals we used to very excited for it from almost two to three weeks before but now when we are in the middle of Diwali festival but still we don't have that kind of enthusiasm and excitement for festival. Reasons I think there are many reasons for it changing nature of society, mechanization of human, importance for materialistic thinks are pr...