As a child, I used to wonder why elders around us always said that childhood is the best part of our lives. Childhood, a phase, we hardly remember. I am, but of course referring to below 5-6 years of a child’s life. When school was not a torture but a fun place to go, homework was not on back of our minds, when playing until dusk would bring the happiest and brightest smiles on our faces. In short, simple things gave us happiness, which today is hard to find.
As we grow up, we go through so many challenges, right from giving our final exams to finishing a race with hopes that the lad behind me isn’t catching up! This phase-the cocoon, a child is constantly guarded, guided and provided an environment conducive enough to concentrate on his/her studies. Our parents have strived hard to make sure that we live in this cocoon till the time we start making our own decisions.
And now here comes the bigger challenge, a challenge for which no one can prepare us for, coming in terms with the repercussions of decisions made and facing the world with it as our only support. Some may refer to it as their big plan, often with an added reference to their Plan B. The journey makes us meet different people, travel, work hard and learn. Learn from our mistakes, misbelieves and pain. Pain, because it pains every time we trust the wrong people, do not achieve our targets or are lagging far behind them. Surviving and being ahead of others as well as our plans is all that is thought of. The innocence we brought with our selves as a child is somehow lost somewhere down the line.
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loss of innocense is proportional to the gain in awareness about our surroundings and environment. this is akin to human nature. a person can't be a child her whole life. people have to enter the rat race for survival...even evolution is based on survival of the fittest...the rat race has taken us, the humans, from caves to space age.
ReplyDeleteStill a person can strike a balance in life....i can quit any time depending upon my level of satisfaction and sense of achievement. some poor people are more rich than the rich!
this topic is a vicious circle....one fine day, each one of us is going to die...then what is this rat race all about? I am now confused! Want to be a child again!
a better solution to this enigma....let us lead a life such that we can answer the following questions with a "Yes":
Have you found joy in your life?
Have you bought joy in other peoples life?