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Sunday, December 14, 2014

The path of adolescence



You know, I am not the author of the post. I am just a common teenager. I am here just to write down some common challenges faced by people in my age group. It may seem funny to you that I am projecting my age group as an already vulnerable group which needs protection, while also aspiring to reach the skies. But on thinking a little, you will realise the seriousness with which I am writing here.

You can associate me with any of the mid sized humans you see in your house, in your locality, in your highways, in your urinals, in your garbage dumps, in your TV shows, young CEOs as well as among the prodigies. I can be seen enjoying in the discotheque all the night and also picking rats in the night for cleaning a locality. With such a great contrast in my life, you can think of me as an embodiment of life. And because I am still growing and changing, you should add to my definition 'with potential of greater growth and change'.



Just a few years ago in my life, I was considered a blessed person, child of god, star of many eyes. And just with changes in my body appearing, I started getting cautions, warnings and advices about how to behave with different levels of society. It makes me sick and angry at the hypocritical beliefs of people around me. Just ignoring the society gives me peace now.

I am also given a lot of toys to experiment with. Earlier the toys were very amusing to mind externally. The toys I got this time are also very amusing, but they go inside me to amuse me. I just tried them because the old toys would just not excite me. But you know, cigarette and tobacco can be used for variety of other purposes as well. I would never have come to know that tobacco can be used for cleaning teeth as well, had I not taken it. And waste is that fellow who has not had some sessions of weed smoke in his life, they say.

You know, I was also taken to Delhi for giving me a job for good money in return. There was hardly any doubt in me for my uncle with whom I had grown so much. Why I was given a household work when I had never touched a single utensil was beyond my comprehension. I had done 10th class so a clerical job would have done good. But now I think I am lucky, as many girls of my age are working as flesh workers in my own apartments. I hope nothing like this happens to me.

Ah, please don't tell me what to do and what not to. My father is the richest in the town and I am his only child. I am into drugs and I drive my car at high speed. I also have a big business of selling porn videos, but what is wrong in that? I am also, in a sense providing jobs to people. I have received a scar on my face and can't hear with one ear, but it's ok. I enjoy the risks in my life.

Don't you please think that I am too dumb at my age to be able to think all this. There is one of my mates who had cleared his graduation at an age of 14 itself. Challenge, when presented to me can not ever be too hard to crack. I can even defeat Vishwanathan Anand in chess, for that matter.

I am also a tea seller. I serve tea to all these employees coming in the afternoon. I wish to be someday like them. I learn what they say. Now I even know what a stock market is and why the sub prime crisis happened. I wish to earn a crore rupees.

I am a girl. I consider myself very sweet. I wish to be a good mother and please my family, so that never in my family a sad moment troubles my people. I know many friends of mine want to make their name in the world but I also know that my happiness will live with the happiness of my family. I hope nothing happens to my politeness and purity. Else my dream of a happy family will be blurry.

I think I am a big resource of energy. I hang on to any opportunity that comes my way. Sometimes I get good results by hanging on, other times, I make my life an exact opposite of happy. Once I got a teacher without asking. I love him, my teacher. He took me from the garbage and taught me how I landed into this mess. He also taught me how I can leave it. I wish all other adolescents like me get a teacher who would lead them to a happy life.

I wish all the readers also treat any adolescent with a sense of responsibility, assuming that they have an immense reservoir of energy in them.

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