As I put my pen down, thoughts keep floating, sometimes even vying with each other to express themselves first. I had recently been through an article sent by my friend who stated that as one gets older, one's attention span tends to grow narrower. As I read it, i felt that i was very much in such a state. I was even ready to (fall into depression and ) go overboard.
Hmmm.... if that was the end, may be this article would not have seen the light of today. I forwarded the mail to some of my friends... much younger than I and was surprised to see that many had responded to my mail with similar feelings. This triggered a stream of thoughts and i recollected a poem in my school days. There was once a person who went through materia medica (!) ( a dictionary of all the diseases along with their description) and began to have a complex as to why he did not have hay fever (that was the only one that did not suit his state of health).
Are we in a state of mind to day that we are unable to find out as to what exactly is our state of mind? Are we carried away by our friends and colleagues' opinion rather than our own? Yes! to be fascinated by the views presented to you is one thing; but, to adopt them blindly without having analysed them in the light of your own experience... well! that does not really depict a mature mind.
As of today, we find that many a movie have been screened wherein the love of the youngster is right and that the views of the elders are necessarily wrong. What astonishes me is that the youth revel in the theme and fail to discern that their own children would not appreciate them when they grow up! what happens then? Since the youth is the major chunk of the viewership today, the producers and the directors go for such a theme as would attract them (the youth). When the same youth, to whom such movies have been directed, go astray, we have seen the popular public figures collapse under the strain.
May be the time has come for everyone to analyse and appreciate the fact that elders have done something for us because they felt it to be good in the light of their own experience! May be we could give credence to that single fact and pause before we jump to conclusions! May be there could be a forum where the elders and the affected youngster share their points of disparity!
Is it not time that some thought be given to make the popular media drive the youth in the direction of progress and solidarity rather than going in the direction of the achievement of narrow goals of money and short-lived fame?
