Another night with the ‘Monk’ and a few like minded people, ending in the usual way, with some of us locked up in a room discussing, arguing, and sharing life lessons over copious glasses of the colored water. At times I would just sit back and look around the room. Take a deep breath in awe of these beautiful minds improvising on life, challenging everything they do in their sober lives otherwise, pleading for a better life. If not better at least a different one.
However the conversation that I carried along was about the death of innocence amongst the teens today. One of them, vociferously, showed her concern with the active sex lives that the teens lead today. She narrated an incident of a 10 year old whose life revolved around her boyfriend when she should have been playing hide n seek and breaking a leg falling from the tree. Is this a corruption of young minds? The question is not if the kids today are losing their innocence by playing adult games. The question is if being sexually active or wearing heavy make up makes them any less naïve. And will it help to stop them from doing all of that. Should we impede them from breaking their hearts. What are we trying to protect them from ‘Pain’ ‘Overconfidence’ ‘Decay’? It naïve of us to think that they will never get to know these things if we guide them well.
I believe that the beauty of life is that everyone experiences everything but no one can transfer their experience to another. We can say nothing to them that will color their choices.
Also comparing them to how we were during our salad years would be unfair. Yes we were innocent but it had nothing to do with how little we used to spend or how many boyfriends we changed. Our innocence lay in our belief of being indestructible. And with each hit to that belief we became a little less pure. It’s our pain as much as joys in life that have shaped us to what we are today. With what sense of good judgment should we stop a younger being from making the same mistakes that we did? To us they might be leading a shallow life. We can see them jump of the cliff; well they will get their hearts jilted one day but not today. Today they love like they have never been heartbroken and that is innocence. To feel invincible is innocence. To that end I think the young ones today are as pure and virtues as any past generation of teens.
1 comment:
khalil gibran and gosmoking, both agree with you. and gibran writes:
'your children are not your children. they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. they come through you but not from you,and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
you may give them your love but not your thoughts,for they have their own thoughts. you may house their bodies but not their souls,for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. you may strive to be like them,but seek not to make them like you. for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.'
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