The youngsters today in the age group of fifteen to thirty five are in extremely difficult, tough,trying contexts. Let us first define the inner/outer boundaries. It is around fifteen that the world enters viciously in the cocooned existence of the typical upper middle class Child. Nam to suna hi hoga! The board exams! Till that point, the educational system may not even have prepared the teenager properly for this trying trumpery. To this sense of inadequacy are added the changes, physical and psychological, induced by the hormonal changes. Life becomes confusion confounded!
Why thirty five? Due the fast advent of the Digital/AI revolution, the traditional notion of a permanent job is already evaporating in to thin air. Job hopping, a total change of careers/life goals, a dentist becoming a translator or a C. A. being a content developer, are extremely common. The jobs are very few,moreover.
The traditional 'relationships as a bolster' kind of support is disabled or it is sacrificed at the alter of event-baazi. Break-up's, separations, divorces, quite common currently, add to the constant tension. The personal is no longer pink, while the pink slip every Friday kind of American system is absolutely spreading its tentacles.
What are the ways out? Psychological hygiene in the form of yoga, dhyan can boost the emotional immunity, while up skilling constantly is the panacea indeed.Developing mentor relationships in both personal and professional contexts could help, I suppose. The most common important method,however, has to be the genuine friendship with one's own self! Humour helps a lot indeed. Troubled times need tough tactics!
Pratima@passively pray, actively reach out has to the strategy of those who care for the youngsters
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