Hello friends! It fills my heart with pleasure
unspeakable to come at this podium and address my fellow countrymen. Teens and
parents all lend me your ears. We all reside in the same country and are bound
by the same ties of Love, Trust and Reverence. Each one of us wants to strive
towards success and pave the path for the betterment of our nation. But things
just don't happen as we want them to in the practical life, isn't it? The
expenditure always exceeds the earnings and so is with the life! There are so
many expectation out of a single man in this hectic world where life has merely
become a race. And then comes a challenge and a failure in a single package
which is labelled as success that at times ravages all the hopes and crushes
the spirit! But let us understand this naïve fact that something that
originates in the mind must find an end in its native!
The
explicit reason behind the production of 'well-schooled' yet devastated and
unemployed multitude is that we from day one are taught to obtain good marks by
hook or by crook. There's a little emphasis laid down for the imagination! Marks
dominate our thinking and has led us to bulldozing the teachers for it, taking
to unfair means or simply overloading the life with tremendous pressure. Grades
have become the identity of a student, which indeed does not have a commanding
share o'er the real life!
The mesmerizing matrix that we all love to be attached with
is indeed the outcome of the marvelous power of the human brain! Exploring the
un-explored and the quest for the un-known has ever since been the prime motive
of mankind!
Education
is a valuable asset. But looking at the present day
world we all are taught right at the inceptions, to be at pinnacle; to be a
pupil scoring above 90s. To have 15 subjects and scoring 92% is simply
awe-inspiring! But alas! No one seems to be interested in developing that
'contemplative attitude'. The call of time is not to work like donkeys and
score the maximum but is indeed to introspect and understand one's own self rather
than simply following all that others have to say.
Of course this does not mean that I am running down the
importance of the elaborate studies and the determination that should be
overwhelming in a student's mind. Knowledge is never futile; it would surely be
of some use in the course of life. If not directly for ourselves than for
others! Knowledge is the ultimatum of human life. Understanding the world
around and acquiring some fundamental knowledge is utmost necessary.
But not all can to do wonders in the field of mathematics or
arts or politics nor were they born for that! Variety is the spice of life! And
indeed owing to this multifarious expertise we are able to celebrate our lives.
Running behind everything reduces one to an abject deficiency of everything,
but focusing on a single target makes the life more viable! Most of the youth
today are baffled and perplexed as in 'How to setup the life' even after
reaching the threshold of the real life!
This lack of decision making and the act of not allowing the
brain to simply venture out and explore the beautiful world then leads to a miserable
plight that the majority of the people live in today. Stagnant waters becomes a
breading house for millions of creatures! A body-part unused gradually becomes
of no use! Similarly leaving the minds intact and plunging into the race of
paracmountcy leads to no terminus! Being passionate about that one idea and
thinking day in and day out about it is what actually is needed. From
kindergarten we are taught to score, but we do not know what the hell to make
out of it! The work well begun is half done. Beginning with the end in mind
clears all the haziness and leaves behind a crisp and a clear image. How
soothing would it feel to watch a movie from a scratched disc?
On and on would then the dismal life trip by in stammers and
simpers! How ironic the life becomes! Exploring and developing the thoughts is of utmost
importance. Even an 'A+' on the report card has no binding effect until the aim
of life becomes clear and one puts in unflinching efforts, shows utter dedication
and rigor and builds up undaunted spirit. Perhaps that 'A+' was not something
that was required at all but was simply the quest of a 'lost aspiration'!
Across every petty corner of this ever-stretching frontier
can one find gobs of riffraff gobbling away the bounty of nature without a
tinge of cognition, sauntering day and night, aimless, worthless! A mere burden
to the motherland! Had these sequestered, staggering, quiescent groups been
striving towards a common terminus, would the mankind be the brawniest and
affluent! The ripples caused by a stone dropped in the midst of a pond is sure
to hit the shingle. Every little action of ours has an effect in and around us.
Idealness thus is not only a friendly evil to ourselves but to all the others
that co-exist. An empty head is a devils home! The prime motive of our lives
should be to assist anyone and everyone in any manner that we can, be generous
and to be congenial and yet not become arrogant; i.e. remain down to the earth.
Reaching the summit only implies to the fulfillment of that motive which again
should be our revered duty. Simplicity is the most attractive and precious
ornament that can be worn and is priceless for the ones who know its worth as well
as who don't!
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