the three letter words , how easy were they to crack when they were only limited to those class room dictations every monday. Easy ,smooth , without much of conflict , what came to your mind you just wrote it and it was over, no ifs and buts , nothing seemed so ambiguous. you rushed back home with 10/10 hopping all over and were still thrown into the spasmodic stricture over "why in such bad handwriting ?"
Every age has its challenegs and so every obstacle faced seemed shuddery and torturous .may be every child would have thought lifes greener on the otherside of the hedge , life would be btter when we grow up away from these monday tests and dictations.....little do they know -its just the start , the turth is that lifes turns more difficult tougher worse intolllerable ...little do they know that these three letter words would would suck thier blood and haunt their dreams are they grow
handritings or topping the section 'II-B' is not the start of the success but instead an advent of a life long expectations . expectations which build over you , from you , are via you.
cause you urselves give the ones around, the liscence to expect because you lived upto them...
the moment you accept critiscim and live upto the circumstance of surmounting pressure you raise the pedestal of expectations and therefore propotionally the pressure .
its a cruel world out there , all its takes to build presseure is little thnikng , some words of unwanted expectations which seem suggestions. but what does it take to live up to these petty words of so called "wisdom"--- day and nights hardwork....stress.....agony.. black out
the consequences of both the acts might seem propotional but the effort put in to live up to them is quite dispropotionate and in not so shipshape.
in the grown up world "escape" is no option,you do or you die , life throws on your face and you are required to do it.life says CAT and you have to be ready to become a RAT(three letter words) later that you agnize ( i repeat) escape is no option...in this RAT race whether u are ahead of left far behind u would encounter people just there to deride you....mock at you .
i dont condemn these circumstances . The pressure is unavoidable , even if no one is here to buit it on to you...no escape .every one has its room already allotted , and yes why not?its the world for the survival of the fitest..
my purpose of explaining here this likeness of the circumstances faced by the two age groups is only to open the eyes for the little ones sake, who are still blossoming . to tell them how important it is to njoy dance sing play laugh and exprience what they want to...becuase truly its that very time to do all of it .. no matter how much your parents say ' there is a long life ahead'.
this is the stage in which these little ones should not even come near those buildings of already alotted closed rooms , which sumount immense pressure. and if pushed into them at this stage they gotta stay there for long neway....and then suffocation takes it all...as they say "there is time for every thing" ...and so the CHEK IN time time for these rooms has not yet arrived fr these pranksters.
Living each moment is important ...experiencing every act performed on this stage of life is mandatory . but experiencing just pressure from early years to the end of your life is a crime .
so just pamper them pamper them for now ... pamper the innoscence ... pamper the play ... pamper the follishness... pamper the talks 'so stray'... pamper the errors and the spelling mistakes .. pamper the little heads for whatever it takes...
perhaps its like a small plant in your gardern on which the flower blooms ,when we water it , take care of it , and save it from the winds and cold for it to expand its roots and grow so strong and firm we take utmost care.....
and once its stands there as a big tree ... its there alone arranges water , nutrients ,sunlight all on its on...how many times do u get a chance to walk down the streeet and water this big tree.?its there all by its self in solitude facing the mildest winds to thundering blizzards all alone....becuase, it has too. n now no one saves it or takes away its pain....
and so the analogies make my task so simple...
6 comments:
This piece is timeless ,as true thousands years back when a man was a hunter as now when so advanced.Intellectually ,it is not related to just 'pranksters' but to adults as well .Rushed back to [boss] with 10/10 hopping all over .......into the spasmodic stricture.'
It is more an existential issue.No easy answers.
But first what i extremely enjoyed.
=rushed back home ....hopping all over ----very energetic & poetic.
=spasmodic stricture-----emotionally graphical.
=wud suck their blood & haunt....cathartic.
=an advent of lifelong expectations.......excellent--sums up the whole article.
=licence to expect because[excellent] because you lived up to them.....gem.
=expectations which seem suggestions....intellectual depth.
=tell them how ......to enjoy ,sing ,dance.----crux --pillar of ur thoughts.
I will give a series of comments ---havenot finished as yet.
ashok
This is a timeless piece,as true thousands years back when a man was a hunter as now when so advanced.Existential issue.
These your thoughts are equally applicable in any adult situation as well.
First ,what i liked in ur writing.
='rushed back home......hopping all over'---energetic n poetic.
=spasmodic stricture---excellent choice of words.
=wud suck their blood n haunt......cathartic.
=advent of lifelong expectations.....sums up ur whole article.
=licence to expect because[excellent] & now the gem--because you lived up to them.
=unwanted expectations which seem suggestions----great intellectual observation.
=tell them.....how to enjoy,sing ,play......Its the crux.
my thoughts are not finished as yet ,would write more in days to come .
But note one thing, your these thoughts are not just the interraction between child and adult,go underneath ,these are as well related to adults in adult situations.
Your write-up operates on three different levels,would share my thoughts later,.
Very moving n stimulating.
Ashok
nice writeup... keep it up
brilliant piece......perfect idea, good thoughts. way to go.....
before i write any thing here are some statistics........
child labourers in the world- 246 million ie 1/6 of total worldwide
children population
child labourers in india- 17 million
amongst the highest in the world
child suicides due to academic pressure- 3rd highest cause of deaths of children
7/100000........
15million anti depressents prescribed in a year worldwide to children
now i came up with these stats to show the two extremities of academic pressure on the children.......
in the first case the children workin around the globe have actually stating no pressure at all on them to study or compete with their peers.......
the second case shows the extreme case when the peer pressure and the kin pressure are at its peak that the child aint able enf to take it or handle it........
so these two categories of children are virtually out of the race tat we all have been running all throughout our lives coz we hav been put under that pressure all this while........
we do not want to be in any of the other extreme categories coz then we are extinct to tis world then......we dnt want to be a part of those who are either unmovitated or over burdened.......we are happy to be in this state of not being carefree nor being bogged down with the books all time..........
a child when it takes birth is hit on its back so tat it pukes out the liquid that may choke it..........if we dnt do it outta fear of hurtin the child it will die, and if it is hit hard it may cause some damage to it either.....
it is the same way a child learns to walk by falling.........it has to be made to stand again nd again no matter how many times it falls.......
that ways just pampering kids all time or pushing them tooo much will result in leadin them to a disastereous life ahead......there always is a requiremnt of being pushed a bit, challenged a bit....
it is a lot talked about our pressure and competions we have..... no doubt it has been that ways but doesnt mean tat childhood of the previous generations were nt as challenging.........in fact it was more challenging than then nw........family responsibilities, daily chores, etc etc which is nt nemore our job used to be the challenges that was faced by the earlier generations at their early years of life.......they were more of a multitaskers.........but without ne benifits that most of us have.......no malls, movies, shopping, etc........it was their struggle at their early years that allowed us a better life at our times..........but we crib......we still cant read, study and concentrate at the academics........the only thing that we are to do.......we are a lazy lot.......
it is important that a child has its childhood and enjoy it their ways.......but it should not be at the cost of not makin their lives challenging enough.......they learn.....its a learning process tat they hav to undertake......the presure mounts with time but at no point should there be an emptiness in life........
now the responsibility also rests in the parents that they identify their childs capability......... their uniqeness and enhance it........
we must be ready for the RAT race......the CAT MAT ND XAT are avaiting us in the future.........and like any other great race a continious training process has to be undertaken to achieve it.....to succeed in life....
there are examples of great people who achieved in life by challenging and paining themselves........
abraham lincoln studied under street lights
gautam buddha left his family nd wordly pleasure in his childhood to return as an enlightened man
even bill gates struggled all his childhood to be richest man of the world now
they had to push themselves as no one else did........they pushed themselves very hard to achieve all that in life.......but we have others to push us including the parents and our peers.......
the rat race is getting bigger bigger with the growing number of people in it........the pressure isnt created by our parents or nebody else but us only......
also we intend to take up lives that allow us all sorts of success and yet cry bout the fact that we have so many here to compete with who want a good life themselves.....
a better life is never easy to achieve and for that some childhood fun will be sacrificed......but not all.......
its again a matter of fact that we cant decide the start or stop of this rat race.......but we know we have to run it.......the earlier we start the chances of us achieving is more.......
its just that we cant always have the best of everything......just need to work it out..........
let the good sense prevail and the pressure stays on at the optimum levels..........
chao.......(i am really sorry that i am at the height of my sleep nw and dont actually know how or what all have i said here. so if it seems irrelevant to the blog discussion, just a small apology for writing senseless crap)
After the first half, the post had a complete shift of topic towards childhood.
I completely agree that kids should be pampered and not introduced to pressure and competition early on.
Everything has it's place and time.
Also I feel pressure is a very hyped thing. The more you think about it, the more it haunts you. Pressure keeps you on your toes and gives you a lot of things you wouldn't have achieved otherwise.
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