Old minds should understand their child's struggle.

If you see old people that often; you’ll certainly hear them nagging about the younger generation that they are just blindly doubling-up the western culture. That they are not reliable when responsibility & maturity is counted. And the trepidation follows of them not being the competent candidates to run the country.

And the young guns feel it in good health to remain hushed.

What’s the scenario?

First, saying they are copying, is a bit misnomer for whatever they are doing. This refers to those irresponsible members who demand the amenities that their western counterparts are enjoying. But they fail to understand that mostly, an average American teenager works in a hotel to earn for his college studies as his parents had told him that they are unable to provide for his expenses, further.

And secondly there is a wide expanse for both parties between the ways they deal & dealt with the fights in life. Being a learned member of younger's club, I can say that.

Now, the gamut is broader than what it was in the past. Rivalry sees everyone from everywhere coming outfitted to challenge you & you have to hone your arsenal to survive too. Stakes are high for all & they can’t run away from it.

But an old offender won’t understand all this easily since he never has been out in the open to such struggle. Yes there were battles in the past but most of them revolved around the scarcity of resources to make ends meet & never was something like come-and-deliver type as we face today. Even when the child at home was tying to think out of the box to do something big, he was reminded about how his grand father walked & worked in the fields & whatever he was seeing now were the fruits of what his grandpa sought. Obviously it was his obligation then to make up for the younger generation.

And now these people expect the same sacrifice from their children. They think it's his obligation now to make up for the younger generation. Well no wrong in being demanding for good cause, but they should understand that the young people having exposed to global canvas, are toiling hard to be competent enough to succeed on the same stage. And doing so, at the same time, they can’t fulfill the wants of their parents; like having some time with them, or even take all responsibility of his little sister from her education to marriage etc. A common Young Turk knows his liabilities; but he needs some time to prove himself after he starts earning & is not ready for such responsibilities.

If this appeals to you, then readers from both clubs, please have some time to scrutinize the situation & take initiative to please the others. That’s the way to live happily, together!

Be the first change you want to see in the world.

Well ask any young man what’s life for him & whatever he will say will point towards this much whacked trilogy- MRP. Money, recognition & power. And he’ll never desist arguing that this is the definition of a success today. Agreed, this way or that; the ambitions have been stemming from these things for all times but not so brutal.

Take an example of a corporate sector. Here, every element will say that he has this duo-peer pressure & rat race- beating him from side to side. He has to be a leader for his downline, a potent rival for his counterparts & a flaccid listener for his boss. All for making his presence in plain sight or others are there to run off with everything.

A student has to be intellectually gem for he has to score there to be an engineer to get in MNC & see bucks coming his way. Or there is another privileged tag of a doctor which is quite tough to possess seeing the levels at which he has to compete. A politician sees himself amongst all mighty throwing weight around. He has to shape up himself the same way. And many of such examples can be alluded to. On the whole, you have to have those several masks of being a different person for different people & situations to survive & still shine. But in procedures you go away from being yourself. That’s the catch. And misgiving of this so-much-to-do stuff never lets you breathe easy. And you feel that stress of being a perfectionist in all the fields.

And on a rare peaceful evening in the garden when you are unconsciously busy reckoning your liabilities, a small girl picks up a flower & smells it having a divine experience. And you realize, she can’t understand life, but knows how to live it & you can write a book on life but are going far away from living it. Because she knows there are thing she knows & thing she doesn’t. In between there are doors!

Toiling hard to realize dreams makes world go ahead & that’s the only direction life understands. Certainly sharp minds will rock the boat challenging big shots. But in this process, there are moments you should have for yourself being yourself. And as Gita says if all this work is done with detachment without thinking of fruits, those added pressures will never haunt you & ultimately this will lead towards a happy & balanced life. After all a fresh life starts with innocence. Being simple, approachable, & being yourself. So let’s be the first change we want to see in the world.