Balance is the word
We, the young
teenage rebels of the twenty first century, have become part of a world where
finding leisure, fun and entertainment is a click away. Long gone are the days
when teenagers had to spend a handful of cash to entertain themselves in a
bowling arcade or buy a novel, we have it all for free! While many of the
supporters of that will debate that it has narrowed the cultural variation gap,
and that lack of funds wouldn’t lead to lack of fun, this has also made our
generation shortsighted, unintelligent and above it, all, uninterested in
anything but who is going to comment on their ‘Facebook’ status. The already
flaming debate about whether we should ‘live the moment’ or ‘aspire for the future’
has sizzled with the stakes so high… What’s right and what’s wrong?
Many of the
youth of today live their life to the fullest, embracing every second and
making a milestone out of every day, appreciating the lily’s aroma in the
spring, the flaming sun in the summer, the rust feel of the autumn and the
breezy chill of winter. Their high school life goes by as they engage in
partying, dating, clubbing, shopping and any other, moral, and sometimes
immoral, activity you can possibly imagine. After they’ve ‘done it all’ and
they’re broke, they are confronted by the fact that they wasted the years in
which they should’ve been maturely developing on worthless ‘fun’. Some will go
on living off part time jobs, but a part of them will know that it’s over. They
will have hit rock bottom. Others may proceed to the ‘right track’ or whatever
you choose to call it, but the inevitable fact will not miraculously disappear:
They have wasted the most relevant decade of their life.
The second
group, that seems to be diminishing in the world today, are the absolute
opposite of the ones who have “Live while we’re young” as their cell phone
ringtone. These are the youth who build their present around their future.
Their every act is with the motive of reaching for the stars, moving one step
closer to the future they worked for and pondered over for a majority of their
existence. They have their university and career of choice planned and they
spend every waking moment where they aren’t cramming to ace an exam,
daydreaming about the day when that dream will turn into reality. The question
is, though, are these young scientists, poets, lawyers and doctors of the
future doing themselves justice? Will they wake up two decades from now,
realizing that they wasted their life prepping for an interview or conference
in their dorm room? They probably will but it shall then be too late.
If I had to
pick a lifestyle of the two, I would be more in sympathy with the latter but
the good news is, I don’t, and neither do you. Why don’t we break the trend for
once and rather than condemn ourselves to the life of a nerd or a partier,
obliviously following a stereotype, make our own trend and lifestyle? Why don’t
we strike a balance between the two? It isn’t as hard as many might believe it
would be. We can always sign up for extracurricular activities which are both
enjoyable and educational. It’s basically the best of both worlds. Read a book,
go to a party, prep for the exam then head to the GYM! There are twenty four
whole hours a day and conforming to a mere activity all along is tedious and
repetitive. You intertwine both lifestyles and you got yourself an winning
infusion!
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