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Questioning The Questions

Questioning The Questions

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Isn't childhood the best period of time. We so carefree, well more like careless, but starting from when we are infants, till we reach our twenties so many changes don't it? Well I am a kid aged thirteen years writing this at this moment I can't imagine growing up. At times I feel that my mind is screaming at me "please don't grow up it's a trap!", it sounds silly I know.


But I ask myself the things I am doing today the fun I am having today, will I be able to experience it when I grow up,

Will it be the same when I have a job and I'll be "well-settled". What does it mean to be "well-settled"? To have a job, with a good salary? Get married and have a bunch of kids? If this is called being well settled then thank you very much, i am good.


If you look at a common Indian family, half the time the parents are after the kids about their education, this chaos starts when the child is in middle school and continues till the child grows up and secures a good job. But my question is if the child is not good in studies though is an outstanding athlete or an exceptional artist then? Then what?

With all due respect, Narendra Modi our honourable prime minister used to sell tea in his childhood to earn a living,

But what if some NGO would have picked him up and put him in a school then what would have happened?

Childhood is a great canvas that splashed with vibrant colors. Don't let anyone wipe the colors off the canvas.

I admit that education also has importance in our lives it is important to be well educated to create a space for yourself in the modern society. But if the saying"every cloud has a silver lining", is true then those who are weak in studies have a different area of expertise which is not correctly identified by the parents then what?


The country is developing but the mindset of some people remains the same. Adults still judge a person according to his or her physical features. They still worry about who has how much money and how. When is this going to change?

When will someone pay attention to what a child has to say? When will children be right in the eyes of their parents?

Not that they are always wrong, not that they sometimes listen to us, but not always.


There are a lot of expectations mounted upon us, like when just before an examination we are told that we are expected to get a certain number of marks, suppose 85 out of 100 and I f we get 86 then the say that we could have done much better, why?

We have achieved the target you set still you are not satisfied. Why not?

And let's say if they are wrong for once and we try to that out, then the subdue us by saying that it wrong to argue with adults.

And if a kid does what hi wishes for once then everything explodes even if it is the tiniest of mistake.


After being exposed to such violence, then parents wonder why their kids have such mindsets, then they start blaming the child then the movies the watch then the games they play then they blame the whole new generation for this. Why?

There is tremendous pressure on kids who are especially in grade 8,9 and 10, why?

I'll answer that, parents think that this is the end of the world and they get behind their kids so much that because of that pressure they are not able to focus on the things at hand, this they don't understand. Why?

Well, this is the thoughts of a kid. I know no adult will take this seriously. But the kids who read this might connect with me might understand.

I hope someday I get the answers to all these questions.


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