They say time and tide wait for none. Well, it’s high time our youth realize this. Youth is potential, capable, strong and defiant. These are all recommended features if one needs to prove his mettle out in the open. These are the structural elements of youth empowerment and coherent productive development. Only, the youth is increasingly failing to realize this.
I sincerely want to bring your attention to another evil that has thrown us at the cusp of debilitation. It’s the rapidly evolving youth. Wait! Evolving is a good thing you must think. Don’t you? Well, it is. Not if it’s regressive instead of progressive. The youth today has become deeply hardwired to pleasure of the senses. They are poked into their laptops day in day out. They are becoming increasingly addicted to the social networking bubble. Facebook alone has 500 million active users most of which are youth that log on to it ever hour. Not for some constructive thought propaganda. But to update their status and profile pics. Wonder what would happen if they forget to do it someday? Evolving with technology sounds good till you see millions of young productive minds getting engulfed by it. Besides time kill, social networking has been proven to bring in a narcissistic element too. Smugness and counter productivity. It’s like bread and pickle. I am sure you can see how pathetic it would taste?
Along side the networking bubble, comes the element of mental, paternal and to a large extent, peer pressure that starts eating through a ripening urban mind’s neural connections. Running, comes a helper. No no! Don’t relax. It looks like a helper but is a stronger destroyer. What starts as a casual try out among a high income youth slowly permeates to all sections of the society. It’s drug use and it’s abuse. Cannabis, being the most frequently abused drugs in India, mostly by the ‘educated’ youth. The disintegration of the old joint family system, absence of parental love and care in modern families, and a fiasco of old moral and religious values leads to rise in drug addicts. Youth consume drugs because of a false belief that they’ll be able to overcome the harsh realities of life.
And I can go on quoting innumerable examples of time and self killing by our productive youth. But what’s the point. We need to realize that this is the time for us. The most productive session of our lives. Stringent education system can reinstate the faith in self thus eradicating the need to resort to external measures of self destruction. Youth have the potential to take this country to heights never imagined. Here are some suggestions to save the youth from the path of devastation
We have got to spend more time with friends. Not the virtual internet ones. But the real ones.
Parents : Please take care of us. We know you have jobs but we want to have jobs too.
We need to form a mastermind group that enhances our intellectual growth. There are 6 billion people on this planet. I am sure someone is looking for each one us.
Stay as far away from drugs or the ones who even smell them.
Have beliefs.
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