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Appeal not to Strain your wards, please


Appeal not to Strain your wards, please

Rather provide them a required support so that they unveil their own potential.


What do you mean by gaining independence and equal opportunity? Does liberty, equality make any sense for Indian youth? Did Indians really get them after independence? Does an individual has freedom to vote with his/her own rational choice? Can he/she decide what kind of life they would live? Has the equal opportunity made people to up their own ideas into the market and make their own world or brand? May be, these questions have been answered by western countries where the idea of individualism has taken its present shape with its rooted anchored centuries back. But, in India freedom for an individual seems to be that, a primordial loyalty seeking power seats are available to everyone and they can compete to obtain the same authority. To put into a context, a boy/girl will be considered successful if and only if he/she gets into top institutions or worst crack civil service exams. It is not wrong to expect from someone, but judging them from the achievement of success in line with perched expectations is wrong.



Parents force their children to study a particular course just because people today are earning much better salaries with that background. A prominent example is forcing every child to take up B. Tech or B.E so that he/she would get an immediate job. A simple question, whether his child is willing to take technical courses, does the child’s capabilities lie in that direction would have kept him/her in a happy domain for the rest of the life. Ironically, that is not being considered. If by mistake any one takes arts and did not get a job, they would be chronically and perpetually forced to listen to the taunts and retrospectively perceived mis – judgement by parents. Wrongly, every student would be compared to the one who gets an immediate job or a perceived high status (IAS) job. Next would be, Usne kuch nhi hone ke bavajud itna kar liya h, tumne kya ukhada? Instead of that, parents could have just asked, what do you want? How can we assist you? Hasn’t it occurred to any one that this behavior would impose a high stress on psychology of students and would actually become a chronic stress?
It is unimaginable to read about what such chronic stress would lead to. Painstaking research has revealed that it would lead youth into depression, anxiety disorders, bipolarity, OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorders) and alas, suicides. Why would a parent push their children into such unwanted psychic disorders? What wrong did they do? Not acquiring a market demanded skill? It is damn not a wrong thing and actually, it is immaterial if it is acquired or not because market is always invisible and there are always skills within each individual to which there is inelastic demand in the market. All that is required is a support from society to know the potential of an individual. Wait, isn’t it what education is? May be even education is running on the fault lines. Please stop this, don’t strain any one to such an extent that their mental condition would cross a threshold. It would be difficult to bring them back into the accepted normality of society.  There is a beautiful life which sadly has its connotation only with the beholder.

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  1. SPVarma's Blog13 July 2018 at 18:46

    An individual must know what he/she is good at! I suggest you to write an article on IKIGAI, aa Japanese concept of finding what we are passionate about!

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    1. Unknown31 August 2018 at 10:21

      Can you tell me more about IKIGAI, or send me some details

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