Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parents. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Generation Y ?!


I am worried about today’s generation.    

    Haha! Look! The granny is giving gyan! Must be high on stuff!

Wachya' sayin ??!!?


Coming back..

WE, we feel we are better off today, than our parents. We have better understanding of things around us, be it other person’s ill intentions or our own ways to get a situation in control. We feel we have an experience worth a mention and we can govern our own lives; in fact, live it the way that suits us. We feel more independent, and hence more confident.

The way most see it but won’t accept it is that we are vulnerable. We sniff falsehood like gas leakage from an LPG cylinder. We fail to trust again and again. We maintain personal distances from people, but get them together just for some selfish company. We are scared to be alone but we also stay alone to avoid people. We can’t give favors so we don’t ask for any. Most of us don’t want to be under the debt of favor bank. We happily say ‘See you soon’, but know inside that that time won’t come anytime sooner. We just stay happy in planning things than actually following that plan and achieving something out of it. We are like cow dung, a substance considering itself to be a fuel but never burning the whole lot, mostly wasting away.

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat et cetera, now seems to be a mode for shy people, who can’t come face to face and say a hello, but pop up in a chat, if they hook someone online. These have become platforms to reach people but more to create distances between many, especially between ‘I’ and ‘myself’. We are, well lost!

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Fact: We are lazy. While I know you all quietly agree to it, I present my example to abstain you from feeling bad alone. It took me 1 hour to reach to my laptop to write few words, though it was just an arms distance away from me, though I am glad the effort is paying off.


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Fact: We blame. Because blaming self, hurts the esteem and lowers the confidence. Study a friend around you, a colleague, and a known person for few months if you need a proof. Oh! And don’t forget to study yourself too.



Fact: We pretend to be guilty. What an easy way to win over! ‘Ok! It is my mistake only, I only did wrong. I shouldn’t have cared so much, which is why now I am suffering’

Fact: We are pretentious. We think and make up our own cloud of pretentions. ‘She must be taking her revenge on me, now I told her the truth.’ ‘He cut the call deliberately, I know why!’

Fact: We are fooling ourselves. ‘I will quit smoking, I will! It is easy only, from 10 to 2 cigarettes per day.’ ‘I will meet my friends next weekend, after all where will they go anyways, today I can rest.’’ I will save money tomorrow, what difference will one day make, and now only is the time to expend.’


                                                                               
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Fact: We have Trust issues! After what we prove to others, as a person first, should we really think of giving others chances to trust us.

 But most of all, we are RUNNING! We are Running, from ties, from bonds, from responsibilities, from attachments, from favor banks, from being US!

We are portraying a ‘perfect’ us outside, oh how empty we are on the inside, how empty is our soul, how sad we are, though we laugh and smile everyday over beer, parties, lunch tables and in our offices. How sad…


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All we want is some company, some stories to tell, some to listen, some to make our own and it is surprising how frantically we are doing it all in a wrong way, making it complicated.

  • Buying a dress and feeling happy in that moment and when you wear it to show off.
  • Purchasing a car and driving everywhere, every day to feel your ability, power and confidence.


Materials that get tarnished, even before a human lifetime completes, are strangely more in demand and trend these days.

  • Sex becomes an interesting conversation, a much more interesting affair and love becomes whiff from a romantic Bollywood cinema?
  • Economy and Market still don’t effect the number of cigarettes you smoke in a day, or the weekend alcohol plan, it is but a mode to gain empathy in financial crises.
  • Blaming the country, government, and corruption while you are throwing that mint cover, on the footpath, after a smoke?
  • Having pride in what you have, letting others down, and pointing at their glitches?

Doesn’t something inside us itch and indicate a red-signal, a jump-wave? Like - ‘Hey!


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You! Yes You! What are you doing huh?!’  
Offering a piece of word/good wishes/advises halfheartedly because that makes you look good? Don’t you think the happy birthdays on you facebook account or some good looking horoscopes are a fool’s paradise? Don’t you feel robotized in this world? Who are you now? What you think about yourself? What can you change? How are you are different from the crowd around?

Look! Everyone around is in the same boat! Don’t you know, you need to recognize first yourself and then your value? What is your gift, what is your power in this world? Do we read ourselves yet?

Life is not a competition, it is a game of self-realization, without looking out for rewards.
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It is terrible that we are losing the connection with our conscience that we are not trying to establish it back. We are slowly shutting our human side down and waking up the animal inside us. How negatively pleasing to know our kind is just multiplying somewhere now.




Ta da the Bla Bla talks come to an end.. Thanks for the time

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Aesa Des Hai Mera

India is a developing country, where the people value secularism, culture, traditions and their contribution to the country’s diversity. Education to all is the prime aim of the country where it should be necessary to make the population literate and make them aware about the world around them for a better living. 


Better Living, what does it emphasize on?


          Job, Money, Property, Health, Good Life Partner, Settled Children, Easy Retirement;


                                                      Yes?! Is the list complete?



Today’s youth, who are in their twenties, have educated parents or at least parents who understand that the list of words above is incomplete without ‘Happiness’ and ‘Contentment’. Parents who know that this is not the time they had grown up in, not the era, where they walked with heads down and mouths shut against their own voices.


Hell yeah! We are warm blooded youth and we speak for ourselves. Today we raise our own voices to the pitches that ought to be heard loud and far. We do whatever we like on the name of experience and gain wisdom by exploring the depths ourselves.


There is one thing which makes us fall to our feet though, the same secularism that unites us.

Two people are said to fall in love within first sight or meet. But hey! In India, you got to ask the question before you let the cupid strike you,


 “Hi, Are you Hindu? Because I am one, if yes I can go forward and get a rose for you, because I like 
you.”


Or maybe


“Hey, I am sorry, I didn’t know you were a Punjabi, else I wouldn’t have proposed you. I want to break up”




Before the cupid hits your butt, you better question the identity of its arrow because that is how our secular country works!


We are Indians! We make sure, our blood remains pure, even though a Rajput and a Bengali, we know can have the same O+ blood group. ! We prioritize our custom and religion, which if a Punjabi marries a Tamilian, gets degraded. We ensure that our races don’t get devalued if our Muslim son marry a Hindu girl hence such marriages are BANNED!


We are Indians! Social and Secular! Proud to call ourselves united yet divided by the caste system that still ruptures the hearts of the generations that fight to overcome the strains and shackles with their love.


We are Indians! We sell our daughter, with exchange of gold, cars, flats, houses, furniture, expensive clothes and all that in the name of gifts. We call our daughters as Lakshmi and pray them for 9 days, when it comes to marriage, we go to the extent, to devoid them of even education that they are righteous to. We bring home our daughter-in-laws and within a year of marriage, we frequently start questioning about the ‘ghar ka chirag’ (heir to the family).  


We are Indians! We don’t let our children fall in love and marry the ones they know but constraint them to get in bed with a stranger! We let our boys roam the street and chain the girls to the boundaries of home. We blame the females as if they are black cats carrying bad omen and get them married first to get rid of them, because they are a hugely delayed responsibilities of time, that need to be shrugged off.



We are Indians! We are educated, experienced and stuck in time.


 We carry knowledge but lack wisdom.


               We don’t realize that a man, woman and 2 kids don’t always mean a happy home.




WE! The Parents of Today’s youth still struggle to change our notions and free our minds from the chains that we were bound in, when we were young.  We feel that our kids need to obey the same rules that we did because that was RIGHT! But fail to understand, that that was right THEN not NOW!


WE! The Parents of Today’s Youth can’t change our minds because we think it is against our dignity and it will make us weak to listen to our younger ones, who can’t be right as they are younger to us.


WE! The Parents of Today’s Youth can break the sticks if not bend them, by trying all emotional tactics that can bring down our kids to lead a similar life that we did, by sacrifice. We never had an option, not because we didn’t have a choice, because we didn’t make any.



We can’t be changed, because we are elders and elders are always right!

India is a democracy where people are eligible to chose their leader at the age of eighteen but can't chose their life partner at any age without the consent of their parents