Hello people,
I believe the problem we are discussing has a much deeper root besides the points discussed here. I just want to stress the importance of choice we make in our lives. Im not sure how many of us are where we are now by choice. I have seen an awful lot of people in India misplaced in terms of their interests and talents. People who are not happy to be where they are in their career because they did not pursue this career for their own good but for their parents or someone else who thinks this will better suit him or her. I believe many of us don’t know what we are good at. Imagine people ,who are not passionate about what they are doing, in every job in India , you will know why we do not have a system which works. Make no mistake these people are trying their best but the motivation and more importantly passion is missing. On the contrary imagine people full of energy , enthusiastic and simply cannot live without their job then we are talking about mass progress in every field. I know these two extremes but its suffice to say that we are somewhere in the middle (hopefully). Although we are led to believe that India produces close to half a million graduates every year , the reality is we are infact producing half a million pair of hands, so to speak, to be put to work. Even though this a harsh criticism and painful to digest, someone has to say it out.
To overcome this i suggest parents have to let their kids make conscious choices by themselves and not impose and influence them deliberately. Parents should find their kids’ interest and encourage may it be art, law, modelling, music and what not. Most importantly its high time parents realised that their lives belongs to them. I once watched a neeya naana show wherein Gopi brings in very truthful saying directed towards every parent “Children are born through you and not for you”- something like that. Gopi nailed it to perfection. Now im not being overly critical of parents. I understand they have dreams about their child’s future but it should only be a dream where he/she will reach great heights in a career chosen by him/her and not by them.
This should be our primary concern in my opinion.
Thanks,
Aravind
(Submitted this post on behalf of
Karthik Vikram, Queens University,Canada
e-mail: viktorcrum@gmail.com)
About Karthik vikram: A good friend of mine, hailing from Coimbatore, did his bachelors degree in MIT, Anna university, Chennai. With a lots of interest in polymer sciences research, he is now pursuing Ph.D in Queens University, Canada.
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hi senior,
ReplyDeleteits avery good blog. but I like to tell my opinion, here in India even the students are money minded while selecting their course. their interest is to make money , not to do something out of the blue.. If u take census it shows about 50-75% of students opted for computer and electronics related studies and mba. Even take ur choice your dream would be a doctor or some other profession . but you landed in some other field polymers. Because your dad would have told we have a rubber company or polymers have great scope abroad. so every parent plays safe for his child. they want them to lead a good life. so the thing is we are still dependent on the society , parents, relatives. we are living for the society , not for ourselves. Then how come we will decide our choice.
Rakesh, thats a good question put to Karthik Vikram....
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