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.