UPES—university of ‘pagal’ and eccentric students
Last week, a girl from UPES committed suicide and I don’t want put up any names. I feel that people, who commit suicide, commit this heinous crime, when they feel that this is the end of the road, there is no other way left. But wait, why would a young, hardworking student who had the whole world ahead her did something like this. She got a GPA 3.4/4 which I can’t even think of. I would have rather thrown a party for something like that. Now let’s get back to the topic, why she committed suicide, and the answer is the competitive world around her (yes I believe UPES is a world class university with even better students). Or maybe she was forced to excel, yes u got it right, I am talking about parental pressure.
Parents have high expectations from their child, and why won’t they? They are paying so much for the education. Educating one’s child is kind of a business investment, when one invests his heart out, he will definitely expect some profit from that investment.
But the problem arises when parents starts to expect too much from their child, far more than his/her caliber, this creates an extra stress and burden on the child, which leads to a complexity and inferiority in the child and he starts thinking that he is good for nothing (personal experience J)
Every child may not be academically excellent but he/she definitely posses some caliber, parents just need to help them out to realize it.
What if Sachin Tendulkar’s parents expected him to be an academic genius, What if Rahman’s mother never allowed him to join ilayaraja’s music classes , we would have lesser reasons to feel proud as an Indian.
…..NIKHIL SINGH
