Recently, I was talking to my friend from school, where we happened to relive some of our school memories. Sharing happy moments, it struck us that we enjoyed going to school, not because we loved to study, but because we loved being with our friends and we enjoyed each and every thing that we did during the day.
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Then, I happened to meet my cousin on facebook (he lives in Pune) who told me that he won’t be able to enjoy his vacations after his 10th boards as he has his 11th classes are lined up. I could not help but wonder what are the generation of today running behind. Yes, we are ambitious. Yes, we live in the world of cut-throat competition, but is it refraining us from enjoying ourselves? Are these children running a rat-race only to land up in another rat-race?
When I think of my childhood, I remember being with my friends, enjoying with them, quarrelling with them. I recall treasuring my hobbies. I remember playing on grounds till my legs ached. I memorize cheating, I remember fair play. I think of all the picnics and cassettes that I heard while eating food. I remember waiting for Sunday to watch Tom and Jerry. I remember getting drenched in rain and getting muddy, without thinking of diseases. I remember catching cold and cough as consequence of it. I recollect eating gola in hot summer vacations and dancing around the campfire in chilly winters.
After a decade, what are the children of today going to remember? Unbearable load of books? Their friends committing suicides as a consequence of failures? Or would the memories include a circus of managing to reach and attend all the classes yet portraying to be happy and fit? May be, their memories would include surfing internet and playing online games and play stations to mar time. They might recall the memories of parents nagging them to be a fore runner. Or would it be that they would be so busy to cherish any memories?
With the race to be the BEST, are these children missing on the fun of making mistakes? It seems that they are forgetting that Failures to be the stepping stones of success? While aiming for achieving bigger and better goals, it seems these children are missing on the happiness of the smaller achievements. Making their near and dear ones happy is no more on the priority list; neither is it called as an achievement.
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Whom to blame? The education system who aims at making children clerks or the parents who want to show off the achievements of their children? Surely, we are surely happy than today’s generation.
Sayalee Natu,
Roll No: 05
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