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
It's all really true, the peer pressure is destroying our generation. Hats off to u sir....
ReplyDeleteHow true! The biggest problem with India is that every parent wants their child to go for the conventional courses. The sad truth is, not every person wants to be an engineer or a doctor. I have a friend who wanted to be an artist but ended up being a telecom engineer and then there's another one who wanted to be in sports but studied CA because his father was one.
ReplyDeleteMay be, this is coz India is a poor country. Parents fear that their kids may not be able to support their family with unconventional profession but there's something all of us need to understand and that is when you want and love something you put in every means to aspire and achieve it. Probably, this is where India is lacking.
If everyone starts doing what they love, our nation is going to progress in a big way but the thing is Rahul Gandhi has to be a politician coz his family has been into it and that explains how the country is getting doomed.
You've touched on a topic that is extremely close to my heart, mainly because I have studied a course I never wanted to but thankfully achieved what I wanted and that is why I land up on your blog with such a big comment.
Thank you for bringing this up this issue.
Keep blogging!
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