Take a look around you, how
many happy, satisfied , calm, faces do you see? One or two out of a dozen. Where
is their happiness? Where is their calmness? Where is their satisfaction? Are
they acting to be like this? No, the world, society has turned them like this.
Turned them into someone they are not, someone for which they didn’t wish to be
like, someone for which they were not meant to be born.
Observe! You will find each and every person in stress or some state of
depression, even when they laugh just look in their eyes and you will find
something disturbing ,something depressing.
The youngsters who have no financial burden, no family responsibilities, their
bodies ,faces, gestures tell that they are stressed out, exhausted and
dissatisfied from their lives. Young age and age of fantasy, an age to be
creative, constructive, happy, imaginative, where is this young mind? Why isn’t
it happy? Why isn’t it satisfied? The answer is lack of socialization, weak
family relations and personal dissatisfaction and it would not be wrong to name
it “young social trauma”.
Man is a social animal, he needs to socialize , he needs to share, and when he
is not able to do so he gets frustrated , whatever is going inside him he just
can’t take it out because there is no one to listen to him. The youngsters of
today don’t have the confidence to share their problems with their parents ,the
reason being that parents have not given them enough confidence or have not
developed such a relation with them that they come up and share their problems
or feelings with them. On the other end the young mind of today thinks that it’s
of no use sharing their things with elders as they are not updated , they have
old thinking and concepts.
Allah Almighty created relations for a purpose. He could have given us birth
without a mother or father, nothing is impossible for Him. Then why did He
create the relations? Relation of a mother, father, brother, daughter, husband,
wife, think about it!
When a youngster or a person doesn’t find anyone to talk to, he searches for a
person with whom he can talk, share, who can give him time. This is a point to
ponder, a disaster for our society, because when they make relations out of the
family they don’t know whether the person is good or bad with whom they are
interacting. The stranger can easily bluff them and can capture their mind as
they are in need of that stranger. The relations being formed nowadays are the
result of this depression and frustration of young mind. They are ethically and
morally and religiously wrong and our humiliating the ethics of our society
specially in the case of a girl and boy relationship.
Young generation is walking on a dark road, they are indulged in acts like
hanging out late in the night both boys and girls, smoking, drinking, sexual
acts are increasing rapidly. It is extremly dangerous for young girls who don’t
get attention, time, importance at home. When they form relations outside the
family they get into trouble and humiliate not only themselves but also their
families by doing wrong acts.
Another reason for a stressed young mind is that they do not have a specific aim
in life. They don’t know what to do? How to do? What is best for them? They
can’t even decide that what they should study. What is their strength? They are
personally confused in setting their goals and aims of life.
The following quotation puts light on this issue:
“It is easy for a youngster to go wrong from hastiness and lack of light” (
Robert Fitzgerald)
The following poem explains the confused young mind:
I stand in an open square
With no time left to spare,
Four ways ahead of me
Not knowing which is the best for me,
Millions of people passed by
Some said Hi,some forever said bye,
I kept frozen there
Thinking that will i end up anywhere?
Another reason for rising frustration in the minds of youth is their
materialistic approach. There is a lust for the riches of this world and they
don’t think about the life Hereafter. Young generation has a weak relation with
the religion so they don’t have spiritual satisfaction as well.
It is a time that we wake up. We should do something, to save our next
generation, to save our country and to save our future, which is our “young
generation”. They are the leaders of tomorrow, if they will be crushed
financially, morally and socially then don't think and dream of a bright future.
It is them who will be building the country in the next coming years but with
the present conditions, they will not be able to handle themselves. How can they
rule and manage a country which is full of crisis?
Its time for the society and for the youth to gather themselves up. Lift
themselves from this social and dramatic fall. And they must start appreciating
what life has given them. Stop complaining about life all the time. Admire and
value what you have, look at small things which lifehas given you which you
don’t even notice and care about.
Summing up in the words of Richard Nixon:
“ nothing matters more to the future of the nation than insuring that our young
men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and
that they develop this capacity—that you develop this capacity, so that you keep
it all of your lives”.