The Invincible youth
Posted in Books on 07/31/2008 01:16 pm by akshayadas'
Life is phase of various stages.
1st comes the foetus, followed by childhood, crawling to walking. Holding dads’ fingers and moms at times walk with legs crumbling with steps here & there. Child hood is followed by infanthood. Infant hood to adult hood is a short road, that finally reaches one to manhood. Manhood to old age. These are the seven stages one has to pass through in his journey through life. The journey is undoubtedly full of surprises. One does not know where to start but in the process one finally lands up in manhood to take care of life as it comes. All the world is a stage, all men & women mere players.
Adolescence is one of the critical phase for any youth. Particularly the mind of the adolescencent remains in a fluid stage unable to decide. A most confusing & difficult phases that leaves many halfway on the road. Many unable to adjust to the gap of the sudden upsurge of energy, youth, friends, and the attraction of opposite sex .The thinking process keeps one in a phase of day dreams. One keeps dreaming of things beyond ones’ imagination. Mostly enamoured by the role models of the society, the film stars, the la belles and the big boys. One keeps dreaming in solitude dreaming of becoming one of the greats of one’s times. But finally crashing to land no where. Boys mostly bearing a shy look with little unshaven growth of beards with silent manners keeping a tab on the boys’ behavioral aspects. The behavioral psychology of the boys & girls changing suddenly. Their attitude towards parents slowly taking a U turn towards freedom of the unknown and the desire to enjoyments capturing their minds. Falling in love becomes a very casual things for boys and girls during that age. Every boy& girls at that age makes woeful ballads at his/her beloveds’ eyebrows. The adolescent behavior greatly depends on success of the relationship with his beloved, the new found friend who takes a seat in his soul. Both the hearts melt into souls. Living apart becomes the next difficult thing.
Always the mind beseeches the company of each other. At times the union of eyes, blushes and finally into the hearts. Time passes with lots of poetries and stories written on a daily basis mostly with love letters to each others. The roving eyes of the society, the eyes of parents , peers and elders keep a watch on the youth opposing their movements then & there flooding them with examples of the successful stories of neighbors child who topped in the class. The proud neighbor becomes a hot topic for the society. It is the mind that gets ignited sometimes catching the right choices and sometimes the wrong ones. Those catching up with right choices are the ones who succeed in the foot-steps of their parents, whose desires they keep fulfilling by bringing laurels e.g., topper in studies, debates, sports,music and knowledge. The wrong choice ones keep fulfilling their desires and it so happens they go for the cheaper pleasures of life. Enjoyments becomes the key word for them. They go on to find partners from opposite sexes who add flavour to their life styles. In the process they at times go on doing all the wrong things of life for getting the rebukes from the society. The parents feel shocked at their behavior. Society laughs at them at their plight of wrong decisions. The helpless parent becomes a mocking bird for the society to listen all the wrong comments for wrong reasons for no fault of theirs.
At times this leads to dangerous steps of life being taken at a very tender age which the youth takes as a adolescent which he should not have undertaken had the youth understood the things correctly. He should have thought over the matter before taking such a decision at such a tender age. The influence of age , influence of infatuation love keeps him pre-occupied in his endeavours. He becomes a slave or addict of the passion. Some of them go astray while some of them become grand success. However, the addiction of love keeps occupying the hearts and souls locked. Hearts & souls of boys and girls falling in love become more volatile and keep them tied to their boundaries of mind, body and soul. Time, fortune and life becomes their projects for life.In their ignorance they keep committing error after error finally to leave a live a life of their own. The society giving a frowning eye towards their behavior.