Two news in two days made me question this:
1) A girl's mother reads the personal diary and in that her feelings for a classmate and makes a mayhem and the girl can t take this; she suicides. Ok this happens only that in this case the girl is just 11 Years old - class VI student.
2) Brigade Road: The happening place in Bangalore (well now that title is shared with the multiple malls around Bangalore!!! ) two young guys stabbed a person because he was honking his car horn when this guys didn't move from the road.
In both this instances the situation went out of proportion which could have been just shooed-off as a non issue. All it required was a bit of sharing and patience, respectively. The class VI, 11 year old (i still consider this a very kiddish age be whatever that the world is changed) was STRESSED because her PRIVATE DIARY that contains her thoughts about her RELATIONSHIP with her classmate was read by her mother. And the young punks they were ANGRY, so angry that they didn't care that taking a pen knife and stabbing the person may actually kill him and send them behind the bars for a long time.
Just the other day I was discussing with my friends the changing times and how the kids don't sound or talk like kids anymore. I was talking to a Class IV girl in my neighborhood and I was feeling as if I was talking with someone my age; and loosing to keep up with her fast-paced conversation . And my distant relatives daughter who was telling me a detailed explanation of why she doesn't remember me because she has grown very old (6 Years) since the last times that I met her (2 years back has been ages back). So case studies apart; the kids are growing old faster than they need to. I remember how I was or couldn't ever be part of mature talks when my parents were talking thus never learning to talk like BIG guys (at the age of 10). And that how my parents were always there to talk to me listening to all my silly queries and innocent discoveries (pressing the of the fingers some thing happens that causes the finger to go Red) . I am not sure if that was the reason or something else but we (my generation of kids) didnt have suicidal tendencies. Yeah we did speak that "Baap re upar se girne se marr jaana tha" (when going to fall from a tall tree) but then thats it, nothing stressed out about it.
A fren of mine once tweeted that she was chatting with her mom in GTalk while they were both in the same house; and how she felt that the technology was invading into the beauty part of chatting-in-person. She was as American and 26 Years old. So I just laughed it off because they do not have any such bondings at home like we Indians do. But maybe that culture (or a small part of it) is coming down East? But is the hasty lifestyle because of the ever demanding work culture OR for-a-better-future of our loved ones attitude eating into the present with consequential results? I think yes... Its time the weekends becomes more about being with the family and imparting the virtues of family and being together (and not just Facebook Buddies, Liking the Statuses !!!) ; and I guess being vocal about things that may be running in the lil' ones mind. Parents in turn should in turn be aware and conscious of how much and what to talk before kids. And last but not the least don't send your kid to a rat race... Ok parents out there, i am not married yet and haven't been-there and done-that. But well this is my plan. A good one to start with I guess.
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