'I want to be a child again'.....
BELIEVE ME.... YOU DON'T.....
After reading this....
For you childhood was....
Skinned knees, muddy toes...
paper boats, pocket full of lollipops....
playing with planes.....
Isn't it....
in short, it was happy....
Our childhood is...
Studying, tests, exams, Compitition, loneliness, Fake friends, constant comparison, Sense of failure..... and what else should I write.......words aren't enough to express what is really going on now a days......
In short, it's depressing
Things have really changed...
I don't see any kind of discrimination on the basis of cast or religion....
I really don't....
which is great!!
But there is something ever worse going on....
Discrimination on the basis of marks, How I look, how I speak, what my parents do and most importantly.... my language, .... if I don't speak in English then I am not qualified enough to be a friend....
and who started this.....
Ya you guessed it right....
Parents who want their children to have friends who are approved by them.....
Why don't they understand..... the friends they want for their children will never encourage them.......When their friends are better than them they feel ashamed of themself.......They feel that, they are not capable enough to achieve anything in life.......
There is a saying...
'The worst kind of feeling is when you are judged by your own family'.......
When a child tries his best......
And then hears.... 'You can do better'
Just because someone else has done better..... Trust me... it hurts...
IT REALLY HURTS........
When a child is not appreciated for his or her efforts they tend to loose their self respect and confidence....
They fear failure..... they tend to think marks are everything and nothing else matters....... and when they don't get the desired result....they tend to think, everything is over......Then can't handle it... and they tend to take decisions which they no longer are present,to regret.... Insted it is their parents who regret......
And then we ask..... 'why do children commit suicide.... I mean do they know what stress is????'
Trust me they do know......
they do know what stress is.....
And who is responsible for this mindset?????
Please make them understand...... marks aren't everything.....Knowledge and skills are.... marks don't define them, their character does....Help them build their self confidence........
If you don't..... believe me you will regret every bit of it......

I just want to ask a simple question....
What is wrong with being an adult???
Paying bills??
Responsibilities??
Lack of sleep??
I genuinely want to know....
Well if you think being an child again will solve you problems...
Then sorry sir, you are wrong....
we don't have to pay bills... thats true...
but we do have responsibilities,
responsibility of not letting our parents down.... which we really aren't appreciated for.....
We can't sleep either.....sir....
I just want to say.... Don't try to mold your children into the shape you want......Because it won't be strong enough to endure the hard times life gives them.......
Let them take their own shape.... because that will be rigid enough which won't break with difficult times.....
For a child, you simple 'good' or 'well done' is enough to enlighten their face....
IS IT THAT HARD FOR YOU TO APPRECIATE????
It is getting worst with time.....
I don't even want to imagine what will the next generation go through.....
I am not saying..... Being an adult is easy..... it's clearly not....
but I just want you to know....
now even childhood is also not the same......Happy and fun....
For you.... things related to childhood is nostalgic...
For us..... it's a nightmare.... That too a really bad one.....
We just want to say...
we respect our parents....
they have sacrificed everything for us..... we do realize it... and we try our best to not to let our parents down....
but somehow..... everyone forgets that a child also sacrifices his dreams and his entire childhood for them.....
it is just that our sacrifices goes unnoticed because nobody talks about it.....




© Priya Rai