Learn to Live first
And then to Achieve
Hundreds of youngsters these days are more obsessed about
their results and ranks rather than anything else. For them a failure is a
doomed life and success marks the beginning of the next struggle ahead. This
fail and pass things has become a mess in which a student is stuck. He has his
highly expecting parents and teachers on one end while he is unaware of the
other end. Their high expectations and comparisons with the highest at time somewhat
seems to make the mediocre students an outcast. What for? Success? Money? Or
simply bullshit?
A student is misplaced most of the times, and this is what leads
to failure. This is the case when a lion, placed in a green field devoid of
animals, dies. In the case of the lion, it dies once while a student dies each
day under stress and pressure of a wrong direction, or rather a direction which
ceases to attract him. The meaning of a student’s life is to earn ranks and
score marks. Gosh! Sometimes I think about the generation which we are leading into.
I never see a child, these days looking up at the blue sky blindly imagining
the clouds, silently hearing the chirpings and feeling the cool breeze tingling
his senses. These days a student sees only the fat dusty books, hears the unending
lectures of the class and has a constant feel of fear and insecurity.
I never understand as to what they are going to do after a
few years. Life is a golden chance given to live for 60 years. This life is to
learn, to enjoy, to develop and to explore. All small and big things make this
life. Career is necessary but pondering over results, fear of failure and developing
jealousy is actually adding rubbish to this journey. We are all born for a
reason, but later on that reason becomes an aim of sitting quietly in a packed
up cabin, rubbing the hands over a mug of coffee and busy typing endless
documents. Is that all what we need? That is becoming a functional machine? No
Human…
Of course life doesn’t end if one misses to make it to the
IIT or a better college. Life is very vast, endless to live if we understand
the reason of our birth. The reason is propagating humanity and love to others.
The reason is to make the world one, with hands in hands trying to connect
every soul and explore each other truly and deeply. Of course a scientific
temper is necessary, but this should be to explore things at depth and not to
make fast bucks and secure positions. Happiness is everyone’s goal but this doesn’t
mean that we keep on stretching ourselves and give others a minimal space.
A visionary for prospect is needed. That visionary should be
developed through every brain and should be visible to everyone’s eyes. Failure
is nothing; life goes on, endlessly until the winds of death wraps us. There
are numerous arenas to develop and divert the brain. There are very many things
to be worked upon, to research upon. We need to realize where our inclination
lies and then choose accordingly. Then we must proceed to discover the
prospects of the thing before it’s too late.
