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[[Guest columnist-Dr. Ravi Dev Chauhan is back!! This time with, 'How To Overcome Sad And Depressing Thoughts?']]
In a world where everybody is running around to get somewhere (I wish they’d be more specific, would perhaps help in reducing the chaos.), I still have the time to think, a lot that too. What do I think? Well, mostly random things, nothing useful I would say. Few days back the board results were out, with a bang. I thought may be now the world was ready to welcome more options than cribbing over the subjects. And, I was proved wrong. I mean, I understand the importance of professional courses very well, but what if the kid isn’t interested in science? Parents still force their kid to go through this two year long regime of tuitions, coaching, and sit for entrance exams. What is the end result? “Kismat rahi, aur mehnat thi, toh something big might happen; otherwise compromise with the leftovers.” What is the point?
The usual scenarios:-
1. Parents wanting their kids to take up science with maths. (Why the additional burden of maths with the pre-existing noble Biology? Well, they say we are keeping options with us. “Medical nahi toh engineering.”)
2. Parents want to show off how brilliant their kids are. (“Neighbor ke bacche ne XYZ se medical/enggineering Ki hai; humara baccha kya koi kamm hai? Huh…”)
3. The peer pressure. (Obviously it affects us what our friends are up to.)
4. The relative pressure. (The uncles and the aunts are more excited to know what we are doing. Gossipmongers!)
5. The general ideology of the community/society (as a whole) regarding a certain profession/subject. (“Mrs. ABC ke ladke ne Humanities li hai…uhmm number nahi aaye honge na!”)
The procedure:-
1. Either kids are able to cope up with the whole tuition-coaching drama, or else they keep lacking their confidence.
2. It affects their health, be it physical, mental or social.
3. Due to an increased amount of tension and pressure from the surroundings, they experience such a transition which makes them vulnerable to things around them.
4. Increased suicidal tendencies, drug dependency. [By drugs I mean, anti-depressants or else Adderall (Study Drug/generally prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), to improve scores.]
The End result:-
If the kid luckily survived this game, then the drama will continue as the entrance exams will be approaching.
1. Either he made it through some competitive exam or else he couldn’t.
2. If he couldn’t, but parents have an extra kick, he will manage to get through some college at least, or else god knows’ what.
The rest what happens we are all aware of. Why so much of unnecessary chaos and running after things? So what if your kid doesn’t want to become a doctor or an engineer? Will he be less of a human if he chooses something else? Why not think (just a bit) from his point of view? See where the world is heading. We have enough of doctors and engineers, and every year there are thousand more which will be added to the ever growing population. So, I guess we can perhaps benefit if the next kid wants to be an administrative officer or a CA or for that matter, a lawyer for a change. The options are infinite, only we need to widen our horizon a bit.
[[What is your take on this? Do you agree or disagree?]]
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