11

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Mind-Mirror of a Teenager With a Stocktaking of Present, Past and Future

Random soliloquy: -
·        Who am I? What is my origin? What is my self-identity? What is my ambit in the world? How do I act in this world? What is the hidden truth of my life? So many questions with different dimensions spin round in my mind for a justifiable reply. Is there any power or spirit to answer my questions with due reality and sensibility? I am in deep search. It is a long-chained thinking. Sometimes my searching finds a blind alley where road is completely closed. I am afraid of all my questions to encounter a premature death in absolute despondence. Should it be taken into account that it is inevitable with no glimpse of any hope? I am in deep perplexity. Yet, my subconscious mind is still in search to rediscover and redefine myself with an exact coordinate. Perhaps I am lost in such multi-choice thinking in renewal to a world where sun shines behind a cloud.
ME OF MINE:-
·        I am now a teenager, not being able to regulate the movements of mind in a fine tune. My adolescence is still on the run. I am unnamed with a down-profile identity. My importance is yet to be felt in any context. My mind is just like a lump of mud, to be shaped in any form with referral situations. But I solicit from the core of my heart that it must be passionate, touchy and responding to the plight of sufferings and miseries of distressed and downtrodden. I believe in togetherness and commonness. I don’t want to alienate myself from others as togetherness is the main theme and spirit of my life. Plain living and high thinking is my fundamental mission and I always enjoy while walking to my missionary journey. Morality, Human values, Integrity, Kindness, dedication and Devotion to truth should be the basic qualities; I earnestly long for, to be reflected in my character with ever shining resplendence. I cherish a complete separate identity of mine. I don’t want to be a lost child as a non-entity in the midst of surging crowd. I firmly demand my legs to be well anchored in the ground and the head to touch the sky above.
LOOKING BACK:-
·        I am not a born with a silver spoon. Naturally my childhood days was devoid of luxury. But I am not unwanted in this world. I am the resultant outcome of hidden passion of my beloved parents. I can still distinctly remember my mother’s ever alert surveillance to protect me from any harm. She used to spend sleepless nights for days together for me. To walk down the memory lane with all distinctiveness is not an easy task at all. Yet, one very episode surfaces up in my mind time and again. Once I became the cold victim worst. My lungs were badly congested. I was in deep uneasiness to breathe. Doctor came and condition critical was his impromptu comment. I could still recollect my mother with overflowing tears and the agonized face of my father. After a deep struggle for a couple of days together the moment I called my mother feebly with a smile she embraced me with raining tears out of joy. The clouds of agony from my father’s face dispersed instantly. Again my room started smiling. Days rolled on as a natural rule. Gradually I reached to my school going age. One day my proud parents accompanied me up to the school gate in deep affection. Primary school life of mine was somewhat notable. New friendship with classmates was an infallible attraction. New learning, new education in a different way was a mark of pleasure to me. But class-room captivity was aching to me. My free movement was restricted inside the fencing of discipline. Pressure of studies started increasing gradually. Yet childhood days is nostalgia with no room of confusion. I would like to go back those days very often along down the memory lane where pearls of nostalgic moments are well scattered.
The Address of My Present:-
·        Primary education being over I stepped into High School standard. That very day I can distinctly call up. “Look, we come of a poor family. Education is your only significant capital what you can capitalize to build up your identity with a striking difference in the society itself. Never forget it.” Father told me that day envisaging much importance on it. I was then in class V. My course of thinking was radically changed on and from that day. I began to concentrate on the subject matter of my studies more intensively and extensively. One thing I discovered strangely, that was nothing but my mother’s nursing to me for a new reorientation. I initiated my struggle for betterment with no laxity as such. At the same time I was understood that barring education I must have to be associated with a cultural activity for necessary purification of soul. It was further briefed with examples that an eloquent movement in the cultural arena liberalizes our mind and heart. I opted drawing and painting as the field of my cultural movement. So, study and cultural exposition began to run hand in hand. I was in the understanding that changes were taking place inside me. But, still I would have to walk for a long walk reaching my target. I was then in class VIII. One day during course of teaching my English teacher asked me to define education in a nut shell. In a trembling heart I replied meekly- “Education opens up the doors and windows of our knowledge to wisdom and next to absolute perfection. Initially he was struck with dumb and then went for a remark with a great delight, “There is no way to define education better than this. It has come from within relying upon faithful conviction.” I was sparked with the recognition. I came to understand the beginning of a new beginning. By that time I came in contact with Anami Roy, my private tutor and later the friend, philosopher and guide. The very first day of my introduction he said to me,” Every child is a potential Prime Minister. None but you are the helmsman of your own future. Motivate yourself with robust optimism. There is no question to be defeated in the battle of life. Always develop the win-win spirit. The world is yours.” My spirit to achieve my target triggered of that day with the speed of light. I began to think, I can also win. I was not adjudged outstanding in Madhyamik Examination, so far as the mark sheet is concerned. Yet, I got the first test of success. I am now in class XI. My male identity is exposed to me. Sense of amorousness is finding its own way as a natural phenomenon. Naturally infatuation develops in me. Likings to Alina (actual name withheld) grow in me. Exchange of amorous glance continues. Should I give in to infallible infatuation? No, that can never be. I get back my senses realizing what my dedication and commitment are. It is not the time to take any decision in haste. Pragmatism dictates me not to proceed further. Imagination and reality hardly have any point of concurrence amidst climax and anti-climax of life. But still I can read the language of those two floating eyes listlessly waiting to respond my call at any point of length. I feel that attraction deep in my heart. But, enough to go ahead I must before my mission to be completed. So, with all expressions of my deep attachment I am undone. Really sorry I am. Yet there is some space for you in the turret of my heart.         
 My Reality – My Philosophy:-
·        Life is a struggle in tandem from womb to tomb. It is a hard-to-be-spoken-of struggle with so many sharp “U” turns. Relentless struggle amidst innumerable ups and downs is the real essence of life. I grossly dislike smooth sailing in the ocean of life as it does never any charm and thrill. I would like to be a tough fighter in the track of life and I have already started fighting against the odds and eventualities of life. I never want to be a defeated soldier in the battle of life. Any kind of defeat is humiliating to me. I always promote win-win spirit. I always want to raise the torchlight of human values and morality, come what may. I am uncompromising to and do denounce injustice, vices and ills as they degenerate morality and human senses. I seek to have a look at all good qualities flourishing in me. I firmly condemn narrowness, meanness and selfishness because they degrade human ethics. Prosperity I do want, but not at the cost of interest of others. I imagine as imagination is more powerful than knowledge. I believe, perfect blending of imagination alleviates creative spirit in life. A life with no creativity or innovative concept suffers from insipidness. I rely upon togetherness and commonness as to live in a homogeneous form in life is beyond doubt meaningful. I keep confidence on the concept; “We are on the same boat brothers.” My heart weeps at the sight of misery or downfall of others. I always sing, “We shall overcome someday.” Cruelty, any contradiction to peace is by default of no choice to me. I nurse aesthetic senses because it purifies our souls. I long for an unstained character. I demand to redefine myself from different angles. I am nevertheless ambitious, but I would like to pick up my ambition as pebbles from the rocky road of life. I don’t want to pounce upon them as I have no reliance in rat race competition. I am reluctant in the tug of war in life. I am passionate to enjoy my life with a striking difference and my noted identity never missing.
I am still walking: - 
·        I never want to terminate my missionary journey despite at the teeth of all opposition. Stagnancy is, it is absolutely indisputing, equivalent to death. So, question of my journey being terminated does not arise in any case. I am walking to hear the tales of pangs and sufferings of the have-nots, I am walking to kindle lamps in rooms with no lamp at all, I am in quest of hearts waiting for a real exposure, I am in search of unfed mouths to feed, I am running with songs of life, I am fighting for the ensured life for the generations to come. Sometimes I am soft like grass, sometimes I am bold like thunder, sometimes I am the flowing stream with swift current. I am walking to live and let others live in peace and harmony. So I keep on singing:-                          
O THE MISSIONARY TRVELER TOWARDS LIGHT-
 IT IS STILL NIGHT,
 DON’T TERMINATE YOUR JOURNEY HERE.”

NEW DAWN IS INEVITABLE AFTER THE DARKEST NIGHT BEING OVER AND IT IS THE RULE OF LIFE AGES AFTER AGES AS AN INCANDESCENT TRUTH.



·        A DISHEVELED WRITE-UP OF A TEENAGER    

LIFE YHAT GLIDES AWAY---- Rupen Mukherjee

Life that passes away unnoted
Just as a casual tramp singing alone,
What is there in the tune?
What life says in the fume?
A message from a distant alien planet
                        Unknown, unknown but must a mourn.
Might there be a life a day,
Might there be some mind-touching songs.
Might there be certain joy
In spirit and faith,
Might there be some overflowing
Flavor and fragrance,
Bygones they are in utter shame
Loitering in darkness in a lane,
Pathos and pangs are only to hold-
                        None to be blamed only me.
Gliding away that my life
Where to go bohemianism knows,
Who am I a question to note?
None but me alone in the road
Heart-rending melancholy that I sell.
Eroding moon in the sky,
Fade out memories in a pie,
Yet I walk in endless shy

                        Who am I? who am I?

TEENAGER STUDENTS – A GUIENA PIG OF WANT AS A TRAGIC COMPULSION

INTRODUCTION:-
Reality begins from here; if human character is placed under a scanner want has no limit at all. In most of the cases ours is a nuclear family as a go of the day. Parents in most of the cases is experienced, if their mental setup is analyzed in the streak plate of reality, strangely ambitious of their children where spontaneity and natural growth are forced to send in exile. They are always upbeat; logic and arguments are least concerned in this context, to turn their shortcomings of life being translated into success in their children. There starts the rat racing where teenager students are ruefully strangled to succumb.
Pressure OF STUDIES:-
At the expense of any my baby must have to reach pinnacle of success what will lead to prosperity. The parents of today are by heart uncompromising to go for any kind of adjustment subject to their personal ambition orbiting their children to be challenged in any way. The merit, response to faculty development and intelligent quotient of their children are not taken into consideration tragically. So comes the beginning of pressure of studies from a very early stage. Capacity of brain, individual inclination reconciling his mental setup – let all these elements plunge into a zone where inconsideration is the only residual. Victims are none but the students from an infantile stage to teenage. Their natural love and growth for study are trampled because of extravagant pressure of studies. Pressure of studies in school and that of even in home too retardate their natural spirit to go for the better. It is really pathetic to convert them into robot of want.
ROLE OF PARENTS:-
How do parents involve themselves into the rat race pertaining to their children’ education – that’s also a point to note. How can they forget their childhood days? Fact is next to denial, they were brought up in the lap of spontaneity and naturalism. They enjoyed real taste of freedom in their juvenility where mental recreation was never stumbled. Pressure of studies was not then so tight gripped. Parents of those days used to allow their children to grow up in usual course without any promotion to the concept additional pressure of studies. Burden of studies to the children was then unwanted and unformulated. Naturally creative outlets of students in those days were not uncommon. Ironically be told, parents of today set themselves at poles apart subject to abide by that philosophy. Can anyone of the parents of the day overrule the backdrop of being reared up in the past with all natural trends living afresh? But as a way of compulsion, never-to loose- tight grip attitude of the parents of today, especially in the field of education, compels their children to run into gasping. Sometimes we meet with a tragic end. It can neither be expected nor be accepted. But hopelessly to quote, the monumental aspiration of the parents encircling their children is the cruel order of the day.
EXPECTATIONS IN FAST LIFE:-
Speed is the basic identity of life if that is analyzed from different angles of vision. Because of rapid advancement of speed science in the last century everyone wants to move with a jet speed to achieve target, question of morality even being mortgaged to the greed of want. But mind and science can never be weighed in the same spring balance as the characteristics of the two hardly reconcile at a definite point. But sarcastically that is happening very much today because of the indiscreetness of the parents. The expectations of the parents are now gear-free. They want to see everything good and admiring in a single unit. This evokes a definite contradiction to faculty development. A student is a student is a student. Coupled with astral performance in the field of education parents strangely demand flourishing of creative qualities evenly in them. But development of creative qualities is not a quick fix. It can never be had placing a demand. It can hardly grow within a prescribed format. It comes from within as a way of inculcation and this easy truth is unreachable to the parents of today.
COMPETITION, A STANDING VICE:-
Abnormal completion in every pocket of life is a standing vice of the day. As every stepping in life is being threatened by gross uncertainty now there is no room for spontaneous growth in a life as non-optional. Everyone plunges to explore every possible field to build up specific identity because identity crisis is now a malignant growth. The more the competition is becoming cut throat, the more the condition of the teenager students is becoming really miserable. They are now at their wits end how they will shape their life amidst so many complexities of unprecedented competition. The dreadful spirit of never being seen competition muffs up the real essence of life. So, be a human robot by default.
RELATIONSHIP TO PROMOTE:-         
In order to come out of this severe crisis the prime requisite is to promote the human relationship between the students and the parents with no exemption to the teachers too. Before an execution of under thumb pressure to teenager students either in school or in house everybody is supposed to reevaluate his angle of vision in the bed of realistic judgment. Acerbic relationship can never draw the optimum output from any individual student. Congenial relationship begets miracle in many cases. That is why, to maintain a soothing relationship with the teenager students is the basic task of parents at home and teachers in schools.

CONCLUSION:-

It is enough realistic to take a pragmatic option not to induce the diabolical sense of rat race competition in the mind of teenager students, on the contrary they are permitted to grow up with their own naturalism and originality where question of vigilance of the parents or guardians is not in any way ruled out in order to confirm their success in the rocky run of life.