Childhood

I still remember my childhood days when we used to return home after long hours of play. Clothes drenched with dirt and mud, all worn out after hours of fun but still an expression of content used to linger on the face. A satisfaction of enjoying our childhood to the fullest would show on the face. In our early days we were not exposed to the so-called modern techno savvy world. Away from mobiles, laptops, internet, life was fun…

But the children today have different means of amusing themselves. They want to own a mobile even before passing out from the primary school, a laptop (PCs are just too boring!) as soon as they step into high school. One of my cousins in class V was asked to write a diary entry about how he celebrated his birthday. I was surprised (and somewhat in spills of laughter) after I read that he had been gifted a “Mercedes Benz Class A” by his parents on his birthday. The bicycle seems to have been replaced by luxurious car.

The children today are living in an era of technical revolution, the era of excellence.

Mediocre do not stand a chance anywhere. My mind is sometimes forced to ask the question-“is the child of today actually living his life as he should?’
Cut-throat competitions and an insatiable appetite for excelling in everything and the new technical inventions seem to have taken their toll on them. Nobody wants their child to be left behind in this era of cut-throat competition. Among all this the children today are being snatched of their most important right- “The right of being a child”, the right of enjoying their life with a carefree attitude. Today A child today gets up early in the morning, spends a tedious day at school and returns back only to be told attend the tuition class.
Hope when we hear next time that the children today are the future of tomorrow we don’t see our future diminishing under heaps and loads of work.